Eco Factor: Innovative home appliance concept recycles clothes to preserve energy, water and fabric.
Variety is the spice of life, so why not add that extra spice with ever changing clothes. Well, this is exactly what an innovative home appliance concept lets its user do. Designed for the Electrolux 2010 Design Competition by Liz McCarter, this futuristic appliance is capable of recycling clothing an unlimited number of times, eliminating the need for washers, dryers and storage.
The Clothing Extruder uses a special base fabric that the user can design personally into any type of clothing. All the user has to do is, feed the desired design using the interactive touch panel and the old material comes out as a fresh new piece from the output slot of the machine. After each individual use, the clothing is inserted into the input slot, where it is recycled back to the original base fabric.
The computer of the Clothing Extruder also notifies the users if they want to add more base fabric to the machine to produce another piece of clothing. It gives the user the freedom to create their own personal style, while preserve energy, water, fabric and of course money.
Via: TheDesignBlog
