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

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• Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  Please step into the Science to be cleansed, human

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• BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  1000027620

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• ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean judo is the art of folding clothes while people are still wearing them, why not wash them first.

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• teft@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Looks like those assisted suicide pods. I can imagine a mixup during a sitcom leading to shenanigans.

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  • Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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?

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    • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Weekend at Gene’s

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    • AmidFuror@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Just put Gene in the washing pod right next door.

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    • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Gene Gene Death Machine

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  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    All I wanted was a slow painful death.

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• Brewchin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• tomiant@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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 for ages. I am willing to pay top dollar to get cleaned. Just put me in a bucket of water and clean me, woman.

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• Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  These might become a thing in the US when some vapid influencer acts smug toward ‘dirty people’ who can’t afford one.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m honestly shocked Japan didn’t make something like this way back in the 1980s.

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve always wanted a car wash style blow-dry

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wanna try it

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  • teft@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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 it seems energy seems to undergo inflation in our world, while water - the opposite. So.

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• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “The user lies down…”

  How does it wash your back?

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  • Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    They actually sit down, so they’d probably just lean forward.

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    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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• atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So a car wash?

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• shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Produce more units and bring down the price.

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• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wonder if this is what showering in space would look like.

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