Category: Washing Machine

A man who used petrol to clean colour-stained trousers in his washing machine saw the whole lot blow up, wrecking two walls of his Moscow apartment, police said.

This is an extract from a consumer affairs piece in The Gaurdian this morning, the rest of the article is not industry related but this is and I’m sure we could all relate to the tales at some point or other.

Whirlpool introduces a washing machine that can remove stains. Christened Whitemagic Stainwash, the machine combines properties of hotwash and handwash to remove all traces of stains.

I wasn’t (and still am not) sure if this is a joke or not: Laundry-phobic men in Munich are being offered beginners courses on how to use a washing machine.

September 17, 2003 6:58 PM GMT (Datamonitor) – According to the latest research from the Energy Saving Trust, British households are responsible for over a quarter of the country’s carbon dioxide emissions, much of that through inefficient energy usage. However, it is in the large industrial sect…

It’s now possible for your refrigerator to talk to your toaster and your vacuum cleaner. The question is what they might say.

Phones4u were running a competition based around a TV campaign centred on a washing machine and orgasms!

National Semiconductor’s COP8SCR Flash Microcontroller Provides the Intelligence for Worldwide First Pay-for-use Washing Machine from Merloni Elettrodomestici February 4, 2002 – National Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE: NSM) and Merloni Elettrodomestici today announced that National’s COP8SCR Fla…

It was in Morocco that I learned how to get a white shirt really clean. I was in college then and entirely uninterested in laundry. But the results were dazzling – my white cotton blouses, dingy from my then-routine of washing all clothes together in a single weekly load, were restored to brillia…

“Laundry is one of the best chores around the house,” says Barber, a mother of three in Landenberg, Pa. “You don’t have to get an appliance out like when you vacuum, or empty dirty water out like when you mop.”