Wonder if there's a spin cycle. Ha.
Seriously though. This should really help the elderly or those with a physical limitation.
Wonder if there's a spin cycle. Ha.
Seriously though. This should really help the elderly or those with a physical limitation.
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Deestan@lemmy.world · 72 pts · 284d
Please step into the Science to be cleansed, human
CannedYeet@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 283d
§cience
OpenStars@piefed.social · 2 pts · 283d
Wcgw?
teft@piefed.social · 63 pts · 284d
Looks like those assisted suicide pods. I can imagine a mixup during a sitcom leading to shenanigans.
Deestan@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 284d
Heyyyy! Who switched the labels on the pods?
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Now who's going to clean up Gene?
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And explain it to his family?
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Rob, can you show up to Gene's wedding pretending to be him while we figure this out?
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 284d
Weekend at Gene’s
DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 284d
I Dream Of Geney
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 284d
Gene Gene Death Machine
AmidFuror@fedia.io · 2 pts · 284d
Just put Gene in the washing pod right next door.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 284d
All I wanted was a slow painful death.
BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 37 pts · 284d
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 284d
I mean judo is the art of folding clothes while people are still wearing them, why not wash them first.
el_abuelo@programming.dev · 5 pts · 283d
Judo is more focussed on throwing and grappling than it is on joint locks and holds, or "folding".
The more you know.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 283d
I see that you know your judo well.
Brewchin@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 284d
Saw the YT video for this a while back (~15 mins) and thought it mostly a nostalgic throwback to the stuff we saw or hoped for in the 80s and 90s. If "how can we charge rent for this?" hadn't come along and destroyed innovation, anyway.
It seems more like a proof of concept, as it just fills soapy water up past the seal line, shows progress and wildlife scenes on screen (which will definitely be used to advertise at you eventually), sprays your face and other bits above the water line, drains, and then blow dries you. You'd still need to scrub, and wash your back, butt, etc.
I was kind of hoping for one of those sonic/pulsing water/jet-wash/scrubbing shower things you see in SF. This isn't it.
But it is great that some companies are still innovating. It's been a while.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 21 pts · 283d
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 282d
"According to company spokeswoman Sachiko Maekura, the new machine not only cleans the body but also "washes the soul," using sensors to monitor the user's heartbeat and vital signs throughout the process"
Corpo speak for " People kept drowning so we added sensors"
TheBat@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 284d
teft@piefed.social · 11 pts · 284d
You ever seen those videos where the car washing machine accidentally rips off a door or windshield wiper. Imagine that’s your dick being ripped off. I’ll pass on machine washing my bits. I’m not lazy or brave enough for electric washing.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 284d
It can work like jakuzi. Water pressure and rotation. Perhaps with suction. Perhaps with slow brushing.
All kinds of machine-assisted things do much more than you can with your own effort, without getting extreme. Constant slow brushing with no danger of ripping anything out, with constant pressure and suction interchanged, for like 20 minutes without stopping (you wouldn't clean yourself well enough for 20 minutes without stopping) and with all the expected gels and such - and you're clean enough without much effort. Would also be economy of water, I'd expect.
Not economy of energy, of course. But energy seems to undergo inflation in our world, while water - the opposite. So.
EDIT: Also when I'm thinking about it, such a machine can even be made work with purely muscular effort. Like a mechanical lawn mower. Still more convenient than having to reach for every place on your back after sitting 10 hours straight behind your desk and with having a migraine.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 284d
This isn't the first machine from Japan to promise these things.
They're not human washing machines though.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 284d
I’m honestly shocked Japan didn’t make something like this way back in the 1980s.
TheBat@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 284d
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 8 pts · 283d
khepri@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 283d
This actually seems like the kind of nonsense that gets "invented" once a decade or so. There's just no way this is humanity's very first crack at "washing machine but it does people" lol
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 11 pts · 284d
I've always wanted a car wash style blow-dry
tomiant@piefed.social · 10 pts · 284d
I have been looking for a bathhouse with an old lady with big fat arms that can rub me down and clean me with a brush and sponge for ages. I am willing to pay top dollar to get cleaned. Just put me in a bucket of water and clean me, woman.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 282d
Good luck, these days most Bathhouses only have old men with big fat arms.
tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 282d
I'll take it! Which bathhouses? Where do I find them?
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 282d
I'm making a joke mostly but really if you google "gay bathhouse insert city you may find what you want.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 284d
How does it wash your back?
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 284d
They actually sit down, so they'd probably just lean forward.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 284d
OK. How does it wash your ass?
Just seems like a lot of downside for a $350,000 device that can barely do the job of a shower.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 282d
Built in bidet?
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 283d
Japan? Like, the country of Japan made this?
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 281d
Honestly wild. Like did they all turn a screw once? Big git repo?
bassad@jlai.lu · 6 pts · 283d
If it works like the washing machine in Gattaca, there is a neat risk that it doesn't end well.
I recommand to watch this -now old- movie by the way
Landless2029@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 282d
Gattaca is an amazing movie that surprisingly still holds up.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 283d
Kinda muddy on the idea behind the showers. I read somewhere that they weren’t really about killing the occupant, but it was suggested that it might be a reference to the furnaces used in the Nazi death camps in WW2 and the eugenics associated with the Nazis.
herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 283d
This sounds fun tbh.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 284d
Produce more units and bring down the price.
Edit: 1218 Monero is a lot
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 283d
If they're billing in Monero, then I have to wonder if this machine does funner things than just cleaning you.
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 283d
Interesting idea. Seriously over-engineered though.
If you want a 'human washer' you don't need a $350k fancy chair with heart rate monitors. Just take a page out of the automatic car wash.
Human stands in a stall. Shower allows human washing of hair and face. Then just hold arms out making a diamond in front of you (think TSA body scanner position, but with arms forward instead of upward) and a 360° robotic sprayer starts at the neck and goes down spraying soapy water, then back up again with a slight up angle to get the groin and armpits. Shower comes back on to de-shampoo hair, then the same 360 robot does two passes with clean water to rinse everything off.
If you get fancy with machine vision and body position sensors, the 360 wand could flip 90° to do the hair and would be angled backward a bit so it doesn't get water or soap in your face.
You could build this for a lot less than $350k. And instead of $1500 worth of body sensors you have a $50 waterproof emergency stop button.
Honytawk@feddit.nl · 18 pts · 283d
You already missed the target demographic in the first sentence of your "solution".
Newsteinleo@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 283d
This is what happens when you only read the headline.
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 283d
How so?
I think there's two different approaches to this. This chair is obviously designed as a luxury experience, as the process takes a full 15 minutes.
My idea is designed for efficiency, to reduce the amount of time it takes to bathe in the morning without reducing cleanliness.
stardom8048@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 283d
There are many people who have to bathe sitting down (e.g. the elderly). Something like the device mentioned in the article would be useful for such people, especially if mobility issues make it difficult for them to clean themselves.
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 281d
That's why I said, different approaches.
My approach is targeted at somebody who just wants to get clean as quickly as possible, and the machine can help them do that faster and with less effort than a manual shower.
If you are going for luxury, or if you need help doing it like an elderly person, then the sit-down submerging spa is absolutely the way to go.
Boozilla@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 284d
atrielienz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 284d
So a car wash?
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 284d
Wonder if this is what showering in space would look like.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 2 pts · 282d
It sounds nice, but I think this is a wash.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 282d
Ha! I see what you did there.
tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 284d
fubarx@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 283d
Solving a non-existent problem. Excellent!
Bababasti@feddit.org · 14 pts · 283d
OP has a point though:
webp@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 282d
And possibly even depressed people, too