Comment on Japan Unveils Human Washing Machine, Now You Can Get Washed Like Laundry

aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Should’ve looked up on the interwebs before doubting the glorious nation. 💢

  In 1970, a peculiar invention made waves at the Japan World Exposition, a world’s fair devoted to “Progress and Harmony for Mankind.” The Ultrasonic Bath, created by Sanyo Electric Co.—the modern Panasonic Holdings Corp—was described as a “human washing machine,” and symbolized the future of hygiene. While it never took off commercially, the invention was stuck in the mind of a fourth-grader named Yasuaki Aoyama. Fast forward more than half a century, and the company he now leads has given this concept another try.

  mymodernmet.com/human-washing-machine-science-co/

  core77.com/…/A-Washing-Machine-for-Human-Beings-f…

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• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  modern revival of a similar invention featured at the 1970 Osaka Expo

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• khepri@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This actually seems like the kind of nonsense that gets “invented” one a decade or so. There’s just no way this is humanity’s very first crack at “washing machine but it does people” lol

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