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CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work

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Post by philipkglass »

wbillingsley wrote: post #129
torpfactory wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s an easy way to cut down on laundry - wear your clothes multiple times between cleanings.... honestly I usually wear jeans 2-3 days between washes. Everything else is single day only... except when I go backpacking and then wear the same thing for a week straight. The smell is... complex.

Any minute now, I'm expecting someone to pipe up "Oh, I just shower clothed..."

I did this once when I spent a week in a hotel near company HQ and forgot to pack a rotation of shirts in my luggage. I wore my one shirt into the shower each night and shampooed/rinsed it using my body as a support form. To dry it after wringing out I left it on my upside-down laptop overnight, with a busy-wait program running on the laptop to make it nice and toasty.

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Post by 52-6F-62 »

darepublic wrote: post #181
bane wrote: post #5

Here's what I want robots to do: 1) Wash my dishes, dry them and put them away completely automatically. 2) Wash and dry my clothes, fold them and put them away completely automatically. These two things would save me hours of work per week. FoldiMate simply isn't even close to being good enough, but I'd be willing to spend about that much for a robot that could do #2. I can vacuum my floor by myself and greet people…

Received a google home mini for xmas, was curious to see what I could do with it. On trying to play music, would not make http requests to youtube for me, wanted me to have Google Play account. Then I tried to query 'closest open pharmacy to my house' a dozen different ways but would not do it. If I could make queries of the nature I stated, and if these voice assistants would just stop trying to get me to download t…

I received one as well. Most of the time it sits on mute, to be honest. (It sits right next to the TV and sometimes the TV would cue it into action and it would respond to what it thought was a legitimate query)

I found that for some music, it would find a radio station named after exactly what I was looking for (for instance a 'station' that only plays the one band or one song) after prompting me to get Google Play.

The most used function on there is the built-in trivia app my girlfriend and I play Saturday mornings while we're doing other things.

I never had a real problem with the search function, though. I'm surprised it wouldn't find results for that question. Did you have location disabled?

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Post by [deleted] »

darepublic wrote: post #181
bane wrote: post #5

Here's what I want robots to do: 1) Wash my dishes, dry them and put them away completely automatically. 2) Wash and dry my clothes, fold them and put them away completely automatically. These two things would save me hours of work per week. FoldiMate simply isn't even close to being good enough, but I'd be willing to spend about that much for a robot that could do #2. I can vacuum my floor by myself and greet people…

Received a google home mini for xmas, was curious to see what I could do with it. On trying to play music, would not make http requests to youtube for me, wanted me to have Google Play account. Then I tried to query 'closest open pharmacy to my house' a dozen different ways but would not do it. If I could make queries of the nature I stated, and if these voice assistants would just stop trying to get me to download t…

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Post by dogma1138 »

teemwerk wrote: post #360
dogma1138 wrote: post #339

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It takes less than 5 min to take out the dishes from a full dishwasher even a large one. I don’t care how many downvotes this get but how lazy can one person be. Also I found even a better way and that is not to use the dishwasher at all besides after a dinner party or a large cooking session during the weekend. I live with my partner and it doesn’t take more than 10min to do the dishes at the end of each day without…

You're underestimating your particular circumstances, and forgetting a gamechanger: roommates. I can't even begin to count how many fights, squabbles, arguments disappeared when we got a dishwasher. The value of an empty sink shouldn't be taken for granted no matter your circumstances.

I have a question tho, isn’t it just moving the problem to a different location? I.E. not starting, clearing or w/e with the dishwasher?

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Post by 52-6F-62 »

unexistance wrote: post #78
dpweb wrote: post #58

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Throw out most of your clothes and dishes. Not necessary.

our most probable future :D but the prices of clothes & dishes needs to keep going down to be feasible... and ideally easy to recycle

Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/1sWnMDcCMQY?t=2m42s

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Post by vec »

AdamJacobMuller wrote: post #176
bane wrote: post #5

Here's what I want robots to do: 1) Wash my dishes, dry them and put them away completely automatically. 2) Wash and dry my clothes, fold them and put them away completely automatically. These two things would save me hours of work per week. FoldiMate simply isn't even close to being good enough, but I'd be willing to spend about that much for a robot that could do #2. I can vacuum my floor by myself and greet people…

> FoldiMate Is this a joke? A machine that, when you take a piece of laundry and after de-tangling each piece (fixing inside-out/sleeves/etc) and then orienting it properly, insert it into the machine in a specific way, will fold laundry in "a few" minutes. All this for the low price of $1,000 USD and they claim to deliver in two years (which we all know will slip). If this machine let me dump a dry bucket of laundry…

I already have a machine that lets me dump a bucket of laundry in the top and have it come out clean/dry/folded.

It's called Washbox, and it's a locker in the atrium of my apartment building. I drop my clothes off, text the locker number to the company, and my clothes will be returned clean the next day. It is, in fact, both super useful and cheap.

I'm sure they would love to automate their washing & folding process further, but those implementation details are already well abstracted from me as the end user. If I were interested in automating laundry, it seems smarter to start by targeting industrial use by existing laundry services who will be willing to pay more per unit and put up with more quirks than a home user would.

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Post by freeflight »

mahmud wrote: post #51
CapitalistCartr wrote: post #9

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1) Get two dishwashers. Alternate them clean/dirty. Think of them as self-washing cabinets from sci-fi. 2) Get a laundry service or maid service. Save thousands of dollars.

Am I the only one that washes dishes immediately after use? No need to even use the machine. Wash immediately after use, let them dry on rack, wipe and put away. Dishes and laundry are a total non-issue.

I live alone, but I still don't like doing dishes manually, especially after having gone through the effort of cooking, I'd rather chill out a bit after I finished eating.

I just throw them all in the machine and run the machine once a week, way less effort, way less time wasted.

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Post by _1qd4 »

sirmike_ wrote: post #169

Heatworks made this $300 wonder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4UgIijI0Z0 I am down. Sad to see more hype than substance re:robots.

Too small, completely useless.

I don't need a dishwasher to wash a couple of glasses and cutlery. Those take 2 seconds to do by hand.

I need a dishwasher because 20 people were just over and I don't want to be up all night washing. Or we just made an intense meal that needed lots of equipment and I don't want to wash 10 bowls, 3 knives, 4 spoons, a spatula, and a cutting board.

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Post by AdamJacobMuller »

vec wrote: post #426
AdamJacobMuller wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> FoldiMate Is this a joke? A machine that, when you take a piece of laundry and after de-tangling each piece (fixing inside-out/sleeves/etc) and then orienting it properly, insert it into the machine in a specific way, will fold laundry in "a few" minutes. All this for the low price of $1,000 USD and they claim to deliver in two years (which we all know will slip). If this machine let me dump a dry bucket of laundry…

I already have a machine that lets me dump a bucket of laundry in the top and have it come out clean/dry/folded. It's called Washbox, and it's a locker in the atrium of my apartment building. I drop my clothes off, text the locker number to the company, and my clothes will be returned clean the next day. It is, in fact, both super useful and cheap. I'm sure they would love to automate their washing & folding process…

Just looked at their pricing, that's a bit high...

They'd be charging me almost as much just to do wash & fold than I pay for someone to clean my whole house....

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Post by therealdrag0 »

cagenut wrote: post #355
dogma1138 wrote: post #339

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It takes less than 5 min to take out the dishes from a full dishwasher even a large one. I don’t care how many downvotes this get but how lazy can one person be. Also I found even a better way and that is not to use the dishwasher at all besides after a dinner party or a large cooking session during the weekend. I live with my partner and it doesn’t take more than 10min to do the dishes at the end of each day without…

> I don’t care how many downvotes this get but how lazy can one person be. I downvoted but just to answer your question: INFINITY. INFINITY LAZY is the goal. Absolutely zero milliseconds worth of mindless toils would be my ideal number in life. That is the spec.

Am I the only one who enjoys these mindless toils? I just listen to a podcast or audio book and relax. Domestic duties are great for this. It's almost mediation.
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