Category: Appliance

An elderly man suffered burns in a gas explosion at his home in West Sussex. Firefighters were called after the blast at the bungalow in Stroud Drive, North Bersted, Bognor Regis, on Sunday

Customer service is set to become the next battleground in electrical retailing. And it will have to extend right across the board if low and faltering profitability is not to be the destiny of the UK’s traditional electrical retail trade.

WITH the season for washing machines just beginning, the industry is anticipating a growth of about 6-7 per cent this year. It, however, remains to be seen if the players in the segment, besides competing with each other, are able to counter the threat coming from the easy availability of `domest…

An Indian man has invented a refrigerator that runs without electricity, as he aimed to create one that’s affordable for the masses. Munshukhbai Prajapati made the refrigerator entirely out of clay, and the gadget uses no electricity.

I’m walking into the home of the 21st century at George Washington University’s Virginia Campus. The home knows who I am by an RFID (radio frequency Identifcation) chip. RFID chips give off information when scanned by a special receiver. They’ve been implanted into pets so “lost” owners can be co…

A Birmingham man died when he electrocuted himself while trying to repair a washing machine, an inquest heard. Vincent Calland, aged 42, was discovered by a neighbour slumped over the machine at his home in Court Farm Road, Erdington, in March.

Appliance makers and others begin to pass on the rising cost of stainless steel.

More than a quarter of a million customers of failed electrical retailer PowerHouse are still waiting for their money back nearly a year after the firm went into liquidation.

Australian Floorbotics PTY. LTD. offers intelligent vacuum robot Floorbot similar to Electrolux Trilobite. Floorbotics claims that the floorbot uses an intelligent navigation system that only cleans areas once.

All eyes are on the markets this morning amid fears that oil prices could rise further.