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There’s a good old-fashioned knob on the front of Whirlpool’s new Duet washer and dryer pair. But there’s also a little LCD screen right next to it. The screen helps you digitally dial in the settings, and it includes a “built-in suite of Laundry Apps.”
Features like Stain Assist and Hints & Tips give practical advice on stains and other everyday laundry questions. The Before You Call section provides topical answers to all your technical questions about the washer.
This is a clever additional feature, but is it necessary? Should a dryer just be a dryer? Or, would you rather keep the apps, but design them to make the washer and dryer smart in other ways—like, say, downloading local utility rates to estimate a cost per load?
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Screen’s a bit small, probably ok for a quick game of “Angry Pants”
A dryer that could message you when it was done would be handy.
I’ve got a washer/drier that bangs on the wall when it goes into the spin cycle.
Is Darrell Jones like an editor for Giz or something? He literally leaves a comment on every Giz article…
No, I’m just an opinionated old git who’d rather post on Giz than do the job I’m paid for. incidentally I do not “literally” leave a comment on every Giz article, though sometimes I post several time in the same article, which makes up for it.
literally (sorry but this must be posted every time the word Literally appears, it’s the law)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uf0u36cx94bmyyf/literally.wmv
One that shows porn would possibly help the men want to do the washing and drying.
I wouldn’t leave.
A little animation of the washing going round and round would be a great distraction from watching the actual washing go round and round.
in the above picture there is a glass shelf next to the dryer.
now i am sure that like me, most of you consider the art of levelling a washing machine as some kind of black magic.
that shelf wouldn’t last five minutes on the spin cycle next to my machine
It is not an app though is it? It is like the bastardization of the word ‘hacking’.
I hate the term “app” for every program nowadays. If it was described as a small screen with some info about washing etc, then no one would care either way. Just use the word app, and now it becomes a Giz article…