Imagine washing clothes by hand for up to 20 hours each week. This is a reality for more than 5 billion people worldwide. In remote villages and settlements — many lacking electricity or running water ...
There’s great potential in salvaging a motor from a broken appliance, but so often the part in question is very specific to its application, presenting a puzzle of wires to the experimenter. This was ...
BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (WNDU) - On Monday morning, the Whirlpool Foundation and The Washing Machine Project announced they have partnered together to take on what they’re calling the “global washing ...
TAIPEI, Sept. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- With the development of artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, traditional home appliances are gradually evolving toward intelligence. Among these, ...
In March 2024, Whirlpool Foundation President Pam Klyn traveled from Benton Harbor, Mich., to Puducherry, India, with a small Whirlpool Corporation team. They were there to take an important step in ...
Big ol’ motors are great when you need to get a big job done, but they can be expensive or hard to source new. However, there’s a source of big, fat, juicy motors right at home for most people – the ...
The Washing Machine Project, supported by the Whirlpool Foundation, is getting many helping hands for their manual washing machines. Last week 70+ Whirlpool Employee volunteers, The Washing Machine ...
Ten thousand people in low-income and displaced communities abroad will be given manually operated washing machines, designed by a former student at the University of Bath. The aim is to help reduce ...
An engineer who created a washing machine for people in refugee camps and poorer regions of the world is ready to expand his project. Navjot Sawhney invented a hand-cranked washing machine for people ...
Most of us don’t think about the cultural context of our washing machines–we just toss in clothes, turn on the device, and don’t ponder it further. But the reality is that the majority of people on ...
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