Apr 03
Over the Top
Don’t get me wrong: I get that it’s important that we move toward being as “green” as possible. As a general rule, if I have two choices, one environmentally-friendly and the other not, if the prices and quality are comparable, I have no problem choosing the “greener” option.
But I think there’s a point at which you need to just chill out a little. The “Washup” is one of those cases.
It’s just a concept right now, but it combines a washing machine into a toilet, recycling wash water as toilet water and saving space by combining two pieces of basic household equipment that generally are never in the same place.
The thing is, there’s a reason they’re not in the same place.
What happens if you’re the poor sap who’s sitting there…uh, minding your own business…when the washer overflows?
How do you dry the clothes? There’s no mention of a dryer being incorporated in the mix, so that means you still have to take a pile of clean but now-damp laundry somewhere else to the dryer.
And can you imagine how much of a delight it’ll be when you’re in a hurry to get a load of laundry done when the “reading room” is…“otherwise occupied?” If you’re using the lower half of the contraption, you really aren’t in a position to help out with the top half.
Even worse, this could be the cause of World War III when it comes to whether or not we should leave the seat up. I wonder how many times an article of freshly-washed clothing falling right into the tank will make the rule for both sexes, “Seat and lid down.”
HT: BoingBoing
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Yet another reason for the seat and lid to always be down.
Seriously though, I saw somewhere that “prison plumbing”–sinks attached to the back of a toilet, same concept as the washer in this post–is now available here on the outside. Yuck.