When two design students from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California visited a village outside of Lima, Peru, they realized they would put their skills to use on improving the lives ...

A manual washing machine, designed to help refugees and communities without access to power, has found a new audience during the cost of living crisis. Nav Sawhney and his team founded the Washing ...

To spin or not to spin - it’s actually an important question as the simple decision to put your laundry through an extra spin cycle in your washing machine could be the key to faster drying clothes.

A new washing-machine is ­promising to get through a full load in just 12 minutes. If this news doesn’t make you hyperventilate with excitement, then it’s blinking ­obvious you’ve never done the ...

March 16, 2009 It’s a great example of thinking outside of the box: as industrial design firm RKS were redesigning a salad spinner they discovered women were buying them to wash their delicates, so ...

Baffled by your washing machine? In a tangle over the tumble dryer settings? Left cold by the oven timer? Then you're not alone. The struggles of millions of technologically challenged Britons have ...