A group of enterprising MIT students has come up with a novel way for developing countries to gain access to washing machines: pedal power. MIT’s pedal-powered washing machine, the product of four ...

The pedal-powered washing machine is aimed at saving time, labor and fossil fuels by washing clothes without a generator, according to designboom.com. The open-resource project initiated in France, is ...

The luxury of washing machines is something that families in many parts of the world just can’t afford, but the team behind GiraDora wants to change that. The group has developed an innovative ...

In the developed world, we forget that there was once a time when washday meant “day” rather than “toss it in the machine and come back in 20 minutes.” In many parts of the world without access to ...

Doing the laundry and exercise are two of the least loved activities on the planet. But a girl from India managed to combine the two activities with her pedal-powered washing machine. Remya Jose, who ...

Drumi — a funky, new household product — is a washing machine. But instead of electricity, the R2-D2-looking device uses a pedal, which means you can knock out a little exercise and laundry in one ...

A washing machine that can fit in a micro-condo and uses no electricity has won a national award for its Toronto designer. The Drumi clothes washer is about the size of a water cooler bottle, weighs ...

The competition aimed to find designs to reduce the burden of handwashing in low-income areas. Kai Goodall is now planning to produce prototypes for testing in Cape Town townships. A University of ...

Doing laundry is a fairly simple chore. Building an off-grid, human-powered washing machine is rather a more complicated matter, as Yi Jiang is continuing to find out. The founder of Yirego Corp., a ...