dishmaker

The dishmaker is a research prototype from the MIT Media Lab for a new kitchen appliance that produces different dishes on demand and recycles them once you've finished eating. The dishmaker was designed by Leonardo Bonanni with mechanical engineer Sam Sarcia and electrical engineer Subodh Paudel. Video by Paula Aguilera.
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[pickmanfox]

Dont you hate dishes? The DishWasher is a kind of appliance that cleans cups, bowls and plates on demand and releases them when youre done. Before dinner, you simply open the Dishwasher and it contains all of the dishes for a family of four. After youve finished eating, simply return the dishes to the Dishwasher where they are cleaned. The dishmaker-sized device takes advantage of soap and water to clean a single dish with less energy than it takes to make a single acrylic dish.

[hboyce4]

But you still have to clean them!!!

[vidform]

I want to like this invention, but it just seems too complicated for just reusing dishes. I understand how the device allows the user to reuse dishes and eliminates the need to store dishes. But it just seems like too much work when I could easily clean my dishes in the dishwasher to reuse them. I guess this will replace kitchen cabinets since you won't have any dishes to store in them. Maybe the dishmaker could be used to make something else other than dishes. Cool technology, but unnecessary.

[ddnn3]

This seems so impractical.

[Miguel Rodriguez]

Stop complaigning so much.

He is actually trying to do something.

I want to see you guys try to invent something yourselves.

[chrisbuffoni]

This isn't an alternative to washing dishes dummy. It's a space-saver. Probably a very expensive one, at that. Thumbs down, this is dumb. Innovative, but dumb.

[skyerocksit]

The applied minds of science. Nice science fair project :P

[AsylumSk8er4Life]

He said the acrylic lasts 100 uses



[xollst]

there's alot of potential in this for other applications too, as he said near the end of the video. good idea, but i wonder how many times you can reform that acrylic before it degrades to an unusable state?

[MirroredHorizon]

What a stupid invention. It takes less than a minute to wash a plate, they last for more than 100 washes, they are cheaper than that big machine or maybe even that piece of acrylic and the bowl is smaller than your average cup.

[Jack243]

if this machine could make a multitude/varity (like 1-30 difrent) dishes & bowls

it would haw some worth