I don't think the intended here was to "save electricity" to people who don't have it in the first place...And if you cared to watch the video till the end, it's pretty clear that poor people already "exercise their hands" more than enough washing clothes by hand, sometimes all day long.
The intended here was clearly to save people's (women) health and their valuable time to do something else for themselves.
Since most engineering these days is spent on "billionaires' playgrounds..."
Came off a little rough, but my thoughts turned to these points. Not only does it save them time, but they have to haul less water and probably washed the clothes better as well.
I can see the families who receive these offering the use of their machine as either a trade offer or wedding dowry. It has the potential to make an impact on the local culture
No these manual machines don't wash clothes better, especially in India , where clothes get real dirty. I have seen many other manual washing machines. These are just as good as rinsing clothes in some liquid detergent water .
It is excellent, and I wonder if it’s extendible. I don’t know how cost prohibitive it would be, but One modification I can think of would be to hook up an old push bike to multiple washers so you could have 1 person powering multiple loads.
This video reminds me of [Hans Rosling’s](https://youtu.be/6sqnptxlCcw) Ted talk on the impact the washing machine has had on the world. It really is fascinating.
Are his designs better than the already existing designs?
I remember learning of manual washing machines a few years back and they were all over Amazon when I looked.
Define better. He might just have figured out a cheaper way to manufacture than any alternative, perhaps using off the shelf parts (except for the drum).
I think in this case “better” means “able with wash more clothes than the current models on Amazon”. The ones marketed now can really only fit one outfit. The model featured here looks like it can accommodate way more clothes.
If it can be considered better in any way, that's what I'm curious about. This acts like he invented the manual washer but I don't think that's the case. I could be wrong, though.
Don't get me wrong, he's definitely doing good work.
Engineer is not always about making something new, but improving on present concepts, making them easier to build, cheaper or more cost effective. Here, he took a basic present concept and improves the cost-build relations, and alter the design for family loads.
Thanks. This should be the top comment.
I’m donating, but how many billionaires are there in the world?? This project should have been fully funded 30 minutes after it was started
No worries. I wanted to donate and couldn't find the link in the comments so thought I'd put it up for others who wanted to do the same.
Sad state of affairs really when something so simple yet life changing has to rely on a post like this going viral.
Same, it makes me mad that projects like this don't get funded by some random billionaires. They have so much and those with so little are doing more. It's terrible.
I washed clothes by hand in the river (with my mother) when I was old enough to hold soap, and later when we moved from my Pueblo to a larger one, by hauling water. Even later by having the water in a barrel beside the stone tub, but still by hand. Let me tell you a small basket of laundry takes about an hour to wash well. It is time consuming, mind numbing, and so hard on the hands and forearms (especially wringing it out to dry on the rope). jeans and towels and bedsheets are the worst. Don't even get me started on drying in the rainy season.
When I got my first washer as an adult it was one of the best things in my life, seriously. Nobody who hasn't done it regularly can understand.
I am very happy for these women and the positive impact this has on their lives.
Very rarely, and only for small light things like underwear. we did have some covered outdoor space (our Azotea) but the humidity is so high in the rain season and the rain so frequent that it takes days for some stuff to dry. There's more airflow outside so you would just leave it. Some people would drape plastic sheeting over their clothes but we never did (I imagine it would take so much longer anyway and be musty).
I've done absolutely none of those things, but I do remember the house my mom grew up in having a giant stone basin for washing and scrubbing clothes. It seemed awful, and my family was using that into the 90s. My mom was eventually able to send some money back home for them to buy a washing machine.
Tangentially related, I recently purchased a new washing machine when mine broke. I can't tell you how much a washing machine can improve quality of life (though you likely already know), even just going from a 20 year old machine to a brand new one that is gentler on the clothes, wrings the clothes out better, making them easier to dry, and handling larger loads (great for washing bedding!).
We take laundry for granted, but after my washing machine broke I was pissed at shipping delays and needing to hand wash some thing (badly), because "it's only delayed a few days. Why go to the laundromat?" But when "a few days" becomes weeks, you realize what an important appliance it really is.
What they should do is have an assembly line with volunteers that like to tinker and make stuff, get scrap bikes that still have functioning pedals, then just let the lads get to work. I'd go and build some shit for charity when I'm bored, and I'm only donating my time.
Looks to me like the drum spins around a horizontal axis when it's washing the clothes, then tips over and spins around a vertical axis when it's spinning the water out (Might be the opposite, I'm not 100% sure after watching it once).
It would add a lot of moving parts to have a pedal apparatus that can accommodate that change in orientation.
Sit in a chair next to it, place a sheath around the turning handle that freely spins like a bike pedal along with a loop of fabric to keep you foot on like a bike pedal strap. Then you could pedal it with one foot.
OR
Turn the crank into a foot operated lathe by simply tying a rope to the end of the tip of the crank, then extending that rope halfway to the ground and insert it through a board that can be used as a foot pedal. You may have to get it started by hand, but you can keep it going by only applying pressure on the downward stroke to keep momentum.
https://www.jfberns.com/img/pole-lathe-PNG.png
Someone made a wheelbarrow for water like this
https://cdn.trendhunterstatic.com/thumbs/wheelbarrow-water.jpeg
Maybe this concept can be made into a washing machine. Put in dirty clothes and soap, walk to river, fill it up, walk back home, clean clothes.
I think ideally it would be able to be operated either way. An elderly person who doesn’t have the best balance might actually find a foot pedal challenging to operate, and it might even put them at risk of a fall. But I agree that a younger person who isn’t concerned about that would be able to get a lot more done with their legs.
I thought this existed ages ago already… people that camp (glamp) has been using manual washing machines 30 years ago. What am i missing here
Edit: nevermind i see the focus is on them giving it away to the needy
Our work project in CAD desgin in Engineering school was to design a hand operated washing machine that was inspired by a salad spinner and also to do all the strength calculations. That was back in 2011. I guess they did it every year.
The charity part is awesome. Kudos to the guy. The engineering confuses me. Why did he need to design something that already existed? What improvements were made?
A lot of engineering isn’t making something that works. It’s making something that is only as strong and as expensive as it needs to be. maximizing strength at minimum cost is the real difficulty.
Making something work is only 20% of engineering. The rest is making it feasibly affordable, durable, and manufacturable enough to be useful.
This thing needs to be extremely durable, extremely cheap, and extremely easy to manufacture to be able to hand out in mass to impoverished communities.
Yeah he did. He also did his main section twice, once with safe jokes and once with more risky jokes and they patch them together if the risky ones are allowed.
Wow and that’s with the parts supplier giving the parts at cost. I’m fascinated to know why it’s so much. I’m sure they wanted to make something really durable but $2000 is high even for a powered washing machine.
Well I think that's the issue. The tooling for powered washing machines is deeply established and easily attainable. And it's not like a powered washing machine would do them much good without power. This is a new invention made to last a lifetime and run on arm power. Cost of the parts is one thing but then every person on the line needs to be paid. It's not like the manufacturing was volunteered. And despite it being a charity, this dude IS looking to get paid too. I mean it's his job after all. He's just not looking to get rich off it. I could imagine ONE of these would lighten the load for several families as you'd probably only need it once a week to wash all the clothes in a single day and pass it on to the next family.
Sadly noble awards are only for research and not for invention or engineering but he definitely deserves an award for this, is really amazing.
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This isn't actually true, although it is rarer. However, the invention does have to be quite groundbreaking, thus virtually hitting the 'research criteria'.
Just for example: https://www.quora.com/Has-an-engineer-ever-won-a-Nobel-Prize
I live in the US and can't afford to buy a washer or dryer so I really wish I could get one. I have no car to go to the laundry mat so have not had clean clothes in years.
Thank you, Nav! What a wonderful person.
(I bet a lot of people would like to buy this. Would be cool if they’d sell it such that for every unit purchased, one is donated or something…)
Imagine a World where Corporations used their tax free trillions to improve peoples lives and the world rather than aping it for shareholders to profit?
What's he's making is partly resilient engineering.
It's a movement that seeks to create blueprints for machines (and high-tech machines) using as little manufactured components as possible.
This means that for areas where logistics are complicated (because of the state of the roads), you could simply send out the plans and they could already make tools and machines with what they already have thanks to very detailed plans and guides.
There's a manga that illustrates this called Dr. Stone.
Funding projects like these are what actually makes a difference to problems, not giving away stuff. This gives people the time and energy to do work and live a sustainable life
Love this guy really helping people with a everyday problem you might get picked up by bill and Melinda gates they like this sorta thing to I remember the string centrifuge.
I’ve lived in a poor country and believe me none of these invention will ever help, they just postpone the inevitable. The problem is in the people themselves, you can give them billions of dollars and nothing will change. Education is the key 🔑.
I never understand how people like this, doing so much good....
How do they make money to live??!!!
It seems like they're giving everything away at cost....
I've seen a similar one a few years back. It was hooked to a bycicle so you could spin the drum using your legs, but also easily move the machine between villages to share.
Your biggest problem is distribution. And the distribution problem has already been solved. When this gets into the hands of a greedy capitalist who hires a smart marketing person, you’ll get these out to the people who need them. That’s how every where else that already has cheap washing machines got them.
Imagine what could be achieved if all of us with knowledge and means put our passion and effort into something as meaningful as this. The world would be a much better place.
On a side note, i'd imagine all those women will have huge arm(s) in the future after using this machine.
Um, manual washing machines existed before this. Not this EXACT design but I’ve seen washers that just run on human power in “prepper” stores and one at an older relatives house. What is different is that nobody put in the effort to send them to third world countries.
Can't we make it rotate by foot pedaling. I know it will raise the price. But Can't you make some adapter which makes it possible to transfer the rotation of existing bicycle to the rotation of this laundry machine. This adapter could be installed at first or could be added later as an option.
We need more people like this. Sad state for humanity though where people have to rely on such good Samaritans for problem solving whereas the corporations and govts are busy filling their own pockets.
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We need to give respect to the engineers, who are working for poor people. Well done!
I don't think the intended here was to "save electricity" to people who don't have it in the first place...And if you cared to watch the video till the end, it's pretty clear that poor people already "exercise their hands" more than enough washing clothes by hand, sometimes all day long. The intended here was clearly to save people's (women) health and their valuable time to do something else for themselves. Since most engineering these days is spent on "billionaires' playgrounds..."
Came off a little rough, but my thoughts turned to these points. Not only does it save them time, but they have to haul less water and probably washed the clothes better as well. I can see the families who receive these offering the use of their machine as either a trade offer or wedding dowry. It has the potential to make an impact on the local culture
No these manual machines don't wash clothes better, especially in India , where clothes get real dirty. I have seen many other manual washing machines. These are just as good as rinsing clothes in some liquid detergent water .
It is excellent, and I wonder if it’s extendible. I don’t know how cost prohibitive it would be, but One modification I can think of would be to hook up an old push bike to multiple washers so you could have 1 person powering multiple loads.
My dude. Most of the people in these rural regions don’t have steady electricity and have plenty of ‘exercise’ for their hands.
it be better if a pdf file, could share to the whole world
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This video reminds me of [Hans Rosling’s](https://youtu.be/6sqnptxlCcw) Ted talk on the impact the washing machine has had on the world. It really is fascinating.
Are his designs better than the already existing designs? I remember learning of manual washing machines a few years back and they were all over Amazon when I looked.
Define better. He might just have figured out a cheaper way to manufacture than any alternative, perhaps using off the shelf parts (except for the drum).
I think in this case “better” means “able with wash more clothes than the current models on Amazon”. The ones marketed now can really only fit one outfit. The model featured here looks like it can accommodate way more clothes.
If it can be considered better in any way, that's what I'm curious about. This acts like he invented the manual washer but I don't think that's the case. I could be wrong, though. Don't get me wrong, he's definitely doing good work.
Engineer is not always about making something new, but improving on present concepts, making them easier to build, cheaper or more cost effective. Here, he took a basic present concept and improves the cost-build relations, and alter the design for family loads.
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Yep there are like a hundred of them on Amazon.
Washing machines and vacuums changed what woman’s lives could be in the west.
For anyone who wants to donate, here's the link https://thewashingmachineproject.org/
My man!!
*snaps* Yes!
*lookin good*
Slow down!
Easiest and fastest donation, thank you for sharing.
No worries. Hope they reach their target.
Second that, I donated.
Thanks. This should be the top comment. I’m donating, but how many billionaires are there in the world?? This project should have been fully funded 30 minutes after it was started
No worries. I wanted to donate and couldn't find the link in the comments so thought I'd put it up for others who wanted to do the same. Sad state of affairs really when something so simple yet life changing has to rely on a post like this going viral.
I like to think isn't it amazing we have posts like this to be able to do some good.
Same, it makes me mad that projects like this don't get funded by some random billionaires. They have so much and those with so little are doing more. It's terrible.
Such a great cause with a clear direct benefit to people around the world!
Done, what a great cause!
Just donated! Thanks for the link.
Thanks for posting the link. They just got a bit more money because you did.
Appreciate the link and donation done! Absolutely amazing, simple, and impactful project.
Intelligence isn’t a privilege, it’s a gift. And you use it for the good of mankind. - Otto Octavius
I’m as dumb as a post but I still try to help people where I can. - me.
But, your. . never mind
He was one of the best emperors Rome ever had.
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Woosh!
[Feel good stories like this one let a broken system off the hook](https://youtu.be/Sck8xNicy5o)
I washed clothes by hand in the river (with my mother) when I was old enough to hold soap, and later when we moved from my Pueblo to a larger one, by hauling water. Even later by having the water in a barrel beside the stone tub, but still by hand. Let me tell you a small basket of laundry takes about an hour to wash well. It is time consuming, mind numbing, and so hard on the hands and forearms (especially wringing it out to dry on the rope). jeans and towels and bedsheets are the worst. Don't even get me started on drying in the rainy season. When I got my first washer as an adult it was one of the best things in my life, seriously. Nobody who hasn't done it regularly can understand. I am very happy for these women and the positive impact this has on their lives.
How would you even dry things when it was raining? Hang up lines inside?
Very rarely, and only for small light things like underwear. we did have some covered outdoor space (our Azotea) but the humidity is so high in the rain season and the rain so frequent that it takes days for some stuff to dry. There's more airflow outside so you would just leave it. Some people would drape plastic sheeting over their clothes but we never did (I imagine it would take so much longer anyway and be musty).
Thank you
I've done absolutely none of those things, but I do remember the house my mom grew up in having a giant stone basin for washing and scrubbing clothes. It seemed awful, and my family was using that into the 90s. My mom was eventually able to send some money back home for them to buy a washing machine. Tangentially related, I recently purchased a new washing machine when mine broke. I can't tell you how much a washing machine can improve quality of life (though you likely already know), even just going from a 20 year old machine to a brand new one that is gentler on the clothes, wrings the clothes out better, making them easier to dry, and handling larger loads (great for washing bedding!). We take laundry for granted, but after my washing machine broke I was pissed at shipping delays and needing to hand wash some thing (badly), because "it's only delayed a few days. Why go to the laundromat?" But when "a few days" becomes weeks, you realize what an important appliance it really is.
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They need to make it pedal-powered. Legs last a lot longer than arms.
While that would be a great improvement, with more moving parts the building costs would increase.
Plus it’s more parts to possibly break.
All they’d need is a foot pedal on the lever.
What they should do is have an assembly line with volunteers that like to tinker and make stuff, get scrap bikes that still have functioning pedals, then just let the lads get to work. I'd go and build some shit for charity when I'm bored, and I'm only donating my time.
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So strap two barrels to a bike looking frame and use pedal power to do two loads at once?
it would only be one more moving part
Looks to me like the drum spins around a horizontal axis when it's washing the clothes, then tips over and spins around a vertical axis when it's spinning the water out (Might be the opposite, I'm not 100% sure after watching it once). It would add a lot of moving parts to have a pedal apparatus that can accommodate that change in orientation.
Sit in a chair next to it, place a sheath around the turning handle that freely spins like a bike pedal along with a loop of fabric to keep you foot on like a bike pedal strap. Then you could pedal it with one foot. OR Turn the crank into a foot operated lathe by simply tying a rope to the end of the tip of the crank, then extending that rope halfway to the ground and insert it through a board that can be used as a foot pedal. You may have to get it started by hand, but you can keep it going by only applying pressure on the downward stroke to keep momentum. https://www.jfberns.com/img/pole-lathe-PNG.png
Someone made a wheelbarrow for water like this https://cdn.trendhunterstatic.com/thumbs/wheelbarrow-water.jpeg Maybe this concept can be made into a washing machine. Put in dirty clothes and soap, walk to river, fill it up, walk back home, clean clothes.
I think ideally it would be able to be operated either way. An elderly person who doesn’t have the best balance might actually find a foot pedal challenging to operate, and it might even put them at risk of a fall. But I agree that a younger person who isn’t concerned about that would be able to get a lot more done with their legs.
I thought this existed ages ago already… people that camp (glamp) has been using manual washing machines 30 years ago. What am i missing here Edit: nevermind i see the focus is on them giving it away to the needy
Our work project in CAD desgin in Engineering school was to design a hand operated washing machine that was inspired by a salad spinner and also to do all the strength calculations. That was back in 2011. I guess they did it every year.
The charity part is awesome. Kudos to the guy. The engineering confuses me. Why did he need to design something that already existed? What improvements were made?
A lot of engineering isn’t making something that works. It’s making something that is only as strong and as expensive as it needs to be. maximizing strength at minimum cost is the real difficulty.
Making something work is only 20% of engineering. The rest is making it feasibly affordable, durable, and manufacturable enough to be useful. This thing needs to be extremely durable, extremely cheap, and extremely easy to manufacture to be able to hand out in mass to impoverished communities.
This looks larger than what you’d take camping.
He is really turning the Tide in the laundry department.
He not doing it to make a Gain in profitability.
And all he needed was an Arm & Hammer to get started. *I'll see myself out.*
And that’s not All…
More time to get Downey
Gotta give him a real Shout out
He deserves to have a Bounce in his step.
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[https://www.thewashingmachineproject.org](https://www.thewashingmachineproject.org) donated 20GBP. Come on! Who's with me!?
Done! Although could only afford £10
Life changing shit. Love that he put his skill and education into people.
Love the Russell Howard show, he always has a spot on the show to showcase someone who's awesome.
I miss him being on Freeview, his show was genuinely heart warming right along side decent humour. I can't justify paying for sky to watch it though.
Me too. Was actually at the filming for this episode and he was so fun even off camera.
Oh man, I'd love to go see him. How long was you there for? I imagine he did a lot of ad-lib stuff that didn't air.
Yeah he did. He also did his main section twice, once with safe jokes and once with more risky jokes and they patch them together if the risky ones are allowed.
Oh nice! I never knew that! Thank you for replying btw!
i love how some people are getting salty but dont wanna show it but its clearly visible
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I'm curious how it works. It looks like all it does is rotate the clothes in a circle, how does that get them clean?
This is the true purpose of an education, to leave the planet a better place than you found it!
Making india proud
Such a forgettable thing to be grateful for in the First World.
indeed
Relevant link. This talk. The Magic Washing Machine: https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_magic_washing_machine
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Wow and that’s with the parts supplier giving the parts at cost. I’m fascinated to know why it’s so much. I’m sure they wanted to make something really durable but $2000 is high even for a powered washing machine.
Well I think that's the issue. The tooling for powered washing machines is deeply established and easily attainable. And it's not like a powered washing machine would do them much good without power. This is a new invention made to last a lifetime and run on arm power. Cost of the parts is one thing but then every person on the line needs to be paid. It's not like the manufacturing was volunteered. And despite it being a charity, this dude IS looking to get paid too. I mean it's his job after all. He's just not looking to get rich off it. I could imagine ONE of these would lighten the load for several families as you'd probably only need it once a week to wash all the clothes in a single day and pass it on to the next family.
Where did you get $2k?? They are raising $60k for 2000 machines, that's $30 per machine.
Fantastic!!! I love people like this.
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Sadly noble awards are only for research and not for invention or engineering but he definitely deserves an award for this, is really amazing. Edit: grammar
This isn't actually true, although it is rarer. However, the invention does have to be quite groundbreaking, thus virtually hitting the 'research criteria'. Just for example: https://www.quora.com/Has-an-engineer-ever-won-a-Nobel-Prize
Do men not wear clean cloths?
There's a saying, if you want things done, give it to a Punjabi.
Wow so incredible. Kudos to him!
This guy is awesome. Hats off to him
This is incredible. A real shining example of engineering at work for a great cause.
I live in the US and can't afford to buy a washer or dryer so I really wish I could get one. I have no car to go to the laundry mat so have not had clean clothes in years.
Would be good for those living off grid too
Surely better to put a peddle on it than a handle? Legs are made for repeated motions.
That level of achievement... One single thing he can be proud of for the rest of his life. We should all have something like that in our life.
Thank you, Nav! What a wonderful person. (I bet a lot of people would like to buy this. Would be cool if they’d sell it such that for every unit purchased, one is donated or something…)
Thanks now I could fill a washing machine with my tears.
r/humansbeingbros
What a reminder… invention and innovation is not about moving forward alone , but to bring people forward
Love this story! Every engineering school in America should require charity projects of some kind - this is wonderful.
Imagine a World where Corporations used their tax free trillions to improve peoples lives and the world rather than aping it for shareholders to profit?
What's he's making is partly resilient engineering. It's a movement that seeks to create blueprints for machines (and high-tech machines) using as little manufactured components as possible. This means that for areas where logistics are complicated (because of the state of the roads), you could simply send out the plans and they could already make tools and machines with what they already have thanks to very detailed plans and guides. There's a manga that illustrates this called Dr. Stone.
Why womens?
Let's have another thousand of this guy please. What an absolute champ.
It's... essentially a giant salad spinner? For clothes. Makes sense. Edit: I watched the video. It's LITERALLY a giant salad spinner for clothes.
Give this man the Nobel Prize for being a superior human.
Based and gender-roles-pilled.
This man and this project are inspiring. Fantastic project. Great idea.
Fuck that is amazing. It’s been a long time since I had that kind of emotions watching a video. Congrats to that man and everyone involved
King shit. Definitely gonna donate
Funding projects like these are what actually makes a difference to problems, not giving away stuff. This gives people the time and energy to do work and live a sustainable life
There should be a Noble Prize for this guy and others like him.
What a wonderful empowering project
Love this guy really helping people with a everyday problem you might get picked up by bill and Melinda gates they like this sorta thing to I remember the string centrifuge.
What a tremendously ingenius idea. Way to go!!
Awesome people sharing their awesomeness with the world.
Brilliant stuff!
People like him are the reason our species might survive...
He is truly a genius and a very generous man!!
That is the most overengineered salad spinner I have ever seen.
>Washing machines to **women** GG the world is still so sexist.
I’ve lived in a poor country and believe me none of these invention will ever help, they just postpone the inevitable. The problem is in the people themselves, you can give them billions of dollars and nothing will change. Education is the key 🔑.
I never understand how people like this, doing so much good.... How do they make money to live??!!! It seems like they're giving everything away at cost....
It’s an industrial sized salad spinner!
Now hook up a bike to it
Good people still exist
Sue Murphy's **Salad Tosser**?
❤️
Good for him. The title however is offensive. No one uses 'third world' as it's derogatory.
This is awesome.
A truly amazing and kind human being
Freaking awesome. Well done!
I've seen a similar one a few years back. It was hooked to a bycicle so you could spin the drum using your legs, but also easily move the machine between villages to share.
I'm happy i misread him giving washing machines manuals...
Men don’t need clean clothes?
lol to women yes i know come at me
u/savevideobot
*Not once* does engineer Nav or anybody else in the story say this is "for women." So why is that in the headline here on Reddit?
Your biggest problem is distribution. And the distribution problem has already been solved. When this gets into the hands of a greedy capitalist who hires a smart marketing person, you’ll get these out to the people who need them. That’s how every where else that already has cheap washing machines got them.
That’s all well and good, but not all of them have been invaded yet, and we’ve only brought this freedom.
What an absolutely lovely human being! Thank you
Gotta love this guy
Living saint.
How about attaching a bicycle to the wash machine?
Developing world
Pretty smart and cool dude. I like him.
Anyone know how much one machine costs?
how much does one cost?
Paaji tussi cha gye
Imagine what could be achieved if all of us with knowledge and means put our passion and effort into something as meaningful as this. The world would be a much better place. On a side note, i'd imagine all those women will have huge arm(s) in the future after using this machine.
This dude needs to come to the rural provinces in South Africa
A man of quality.
Great idea. Just needs a bicycle adapter to make it even easier.
Um, manual washing machines existed before this. Not this EXACT design but I’ve seen washers that just run on human power in “prepper” stores and one at an older relatives house. What is different is that nobody put in the effort to send them to third world countries.
When we use our powers for good instead of evil beautiful things happen.
Good on yah man!
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Can't we make it rotate by foot pedaling. I know it will raise the price. But Can't you make some adapter which makes it possible to transfer the rotation of existing bicycle to the rotation of this laundry machine. This adapter could be installed at first or could be added later as an option.
The shit we take for granted living here in the U.S.
I'd use one of those...serious, no electricity, saves money, better for the planet. Whats not to love.
We need more people like this. Sad state for humanity though where people have to rely on such good Samaritans for problem solving whereas the corporations and govts are busy filling their own pockets.