A Spanish designer has come up with what could be the perfect solution for the woman who feels frustrated that she has to do all the house chores.
It is a washing machine called "Your Turn", which will not let the same person use it twice in a row.
It uses fingerprint recognition technology to ensure the job of loading is not dumped on just one individual.
Pep Torres was approached by a Spanish white goods manufacturer to come up with an innovative Father's Day gift.
I hope both women and men will think it's time for the men to do more around the house
Pep Torres
Designer
"I thought it would be good to finish with macho man from the ice age who doesn't do anything around the house except drink beers," said Torres, from DeBuenaTinta in Barcelona.
"Spain is changing a lot, and I wanted to come up with an invention to enable men to do more around the home."
Fast fingers
Some men may disagree that it is a good present for Father's Day and argue that it is more of a gift for the lady of the house.
"It was a tongue-in-cheek idea which seemed to catch the imagination," said Torres.
"It's an invention that has a philosophy behind it and I hope both women and men will think it's time for the men to do more around the house."
Your Turn requires both partners to register their fingerprints on the sensor while it is hooked up to their home computer.
When the sensor is then plugged into the washing machine, the software will only allow the wash programme to start if a different finger is placed on it each time.
So what about the cheats - how can you get round it?
Torres has an unusual solution: "I suggest the man can leave his finger at home... we have 10 fingers, so he won't miss one - well, you don't use the little finger a lot.
"Seriously though, the only way to override the system is to crawl around the back of the machine, unplug the sensor, take it back to the home computer and re-programme it - not that easy.
"We have to make it difficult to change otherwise it defeats the object of the exercise."
All thumbs
Your Turn is also childproof. Parents can be confident that young fingers will not be able to operate the washing machine as it is only their fingerprints that can start it.
But there is one bone of contention. The same person can still load the washing time after time. The finger print sensor only controls who starts the programme.
In future designs, Torres hopes to bring the door release mechanism under the thumb of the fingerprint sensor, too.
In the meantime, Your Turn is expected to go on sale in the next couple of weeks.
The one thing it will not do though is something that most guys are notoriously bad at - separating the whites from the coloureds.
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That would suck if your spouse went away for a weekend or you needed to do the wash in the middle of the night because you forgot to do it before hand. Just seems like people should speak up instead of buying a whole new machine that will only make more problems then it will solve.
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The only thing that would result in at my house is some god-awful piles of laundry.
You know, from the title I expected to read something very different here..
LOL Falco Rex -- me too.
And I agree with Lila...our house would just be overflowing with piles and piles of laundry...and a man's voice (my hubby, of course) yelling from the shower, "Honey, I need a towel!!"
~Scarlet~
And I agree with Lila...our house would just be overflowing with piles and piles of laundry...and a man's voice (my hubby, of course) yelling from the shower, "Honey, I need a towel!!"
~Scarlet~
So what happens if one of the two people go away on a trip, how does the washing get done then?!
QUOTE(LilaBurrows @ May 2 2005, 01:23 AM)
The only thing that would result in at my house is some god-awful piles of laundry.
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lol, same here.
I think it's a pretty dumb idea actually.
I think most men would just chop off a hand, and give it to the wife....lol
Or have their hand copied and an artifical one created so they can keep both hands for the remote and a beer! lol!
Washing machine fingers lazy male
A Spanish designer has come up with what could be the perfect solution for the woman who feels frustrated that she has to do all the house chores.
It is a washing machine called "Your Turn", which will not let the same person use it twice in a row.
It uses fingerprint recognition technology to ensure the job of loading is not dumped on just one individual.
Pep Torres was approached by a Spanish white goods manufacturer to come up with an innovative Father's Day gift.
"I hope both women and men will think it's time for the men to do more around the house"
Pep Torres
Designer
"I thought it would be good to finish with macho man from the ice age who doesn't do anything around the house except drink beers," said Torres, from DeBuenaTinta in Barcelona.
"Spain is changing a lot, and I wanted to come up with an invention to enable men to do more around the home."
Fast fingers
Some men may disagree that it is a good present for Father's Day and argue that it is more of a gift for the lady of the house.
"It was a tongue-in-cheek idea which seemed to catch the imagination," said Torres.
"It's an invention that has a philosophy behind it and I hope both women and men will think it's time for the men to do more around the house."
Your Turn requires both partners to register their fingerprints on the sensor while it is hooked up to their home computer.
When the sensor is then plugged into the washing machine, the software will only allow the wash programme to start if a different finger is placed on it each time.
So what about the cheats - how can you get round it?
Torres has an unusual solution: "I suggest the man can leave his finger at home... we have 10 fingers, so he won't miss one - well, you don't use the little finger a lot.
"Seriously though, the only way to override the system is to crawl around the back of the machine, unplug the sensor, take it back to the home computer and re-programme it - not that easy.
"We have to make it difficult to change otherwise it defeats the object of the exercise."
All thumbs
Your Turn is also childproof. Parents can be confident that young fingers will not be able to operate the washing machine as it is only their fingerprints that can start it.
But there is one bone of contention. The same person can still load the washing time after time. The finger print sensor only controls who starts the programme.
In future designs, Torres hopes to bring the door release mechanism under the thumb of the fingerprint sensor, too.
In the meantime, Your Turn is expected to go on sale in the next couple of weeks.
The one thing it will not do though is something that most guys are notoriously bad at - separating the whites from the coloureds.
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If it will get a lazy guy to do the laundry, I'm all for it! my cousin doesn't do his own laundry, and he's in college
A Spanish designer has come up with what could be the perfect solution for the woman who feels frustrated that she has to do all the house chores.
It is a washing machine called "Your Turn", which will not let the same person use it twice in a row.
It uses fingerprint recognition technology to ensure the job of loading is not dumped on just one individual.
Pep Torres was approached by a Spanish white goods manufacturer to come up with an innovative Father's Day gift.
"I hope both women and men will think it's time for the men to do more around the house"
Pep Torres
Designer
"I thought it would be good to finish with macho man from the ice age who doesn't do anything around the house except drink beers," said Torres, from DeBuenaTinta in Barcelona.
"Spain is changing a lot, and I wanted to come up with an invention to enable men to do more around the home."
Fast fingers
Some men may disagree that it is a good present for Father's Day and argue that it is more of a gift for the lady of the house.
"It was a tongue-in-cheek idea which seemed to catch the imagination," said Torres.
"It's an invention that has a philosophy behind it and I hope both women and men will think it's time for the men to do more around the house."
Your Turn requires both partners to register their fingerprints on the sensor while it is hooked up to their home computer.
When the sensor is then plugged into the washing machine, the software will only allow the wash programme to start if a different finger is placed on it each time.
So what about the cheats - how can you get round it?
Torres has an unusual solution: "I suggest the man can leave his finger at home... we have 10 fingers, so he won't miss one - well, you don't use the little finger a lot.
"Seriously though, the only way to override the system is to crawl around the back of the machine, unplug the sensor, take it back to the home computer and re-programme it - not that easy.
"We have to make it difficult to change otherwise it defeats the object of the exercise."
All thumbs
Your Turn is also childproof. Parents can be confident that young fingers will not be able to operate the washing machine as it is only their fingerprints that can start it.
But there is one bone of contention. The same person can still load the washing time after time. The finger print sensor only controls who starts the programme.
In future designs, Torres hopes to bring the door release mechanism under the thumb of the fingerprint sensor, too.
In the meantime, Your Turn is expected to go on sale in the next couple of weeks.
The one thing it will not do though is something that most guys are notoriously bad at - separating the whites from the coloureds.
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If it will get a lazy guy to do the laundry, I'm all for it! my cousin doesn't do his own laundry, and he's in college
Sounds like someone had too much time on their hands?!@
thats a stupid invention...what if for what ever reason the male goes on a business trip for a week or two...then what?
I was so disturbed by the title of this topic...
Wow that's a dumb invention. Take that, men!
Wow that's a dumb invention. Take that, men!
Nice idea to get the machine to help share the work around, but impractical.
If you put a few more advanced sensors in it you might be able to program it to recognise (by smell?) the proximity of a pre-programmed list people in the house.
If those people hadn't used the machine for a long time the machine could yell out as you pass by: "Hey lazy ass ! Do some work !"
If you put a few more advanced sensors in it you might be able to program it to recognise (by smell?) the proximity of a pre-programmed list people in the house.
If those people hadn't used the machine for a long time the machine could yell out as you pass by: "Hey lazy ass ! Do some work !"
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