Appreciating Life's Little Things

可是又有澳洲人發明了用carbon dioxide的 dishwasher…

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=23185

滿強的~ 我也想要一台~~ 可是要過很多年後才會普及化

Waterless dishwasher wins award
13:43 AEST Sun Nov 21 2004

A revolutionary dishwasher created by three Australian university students that uses carbon dioxide instead of water won a world-wide design competition.

Global electronic appliance giant Electrolux asked students to design a product consumers might need in the year 2015.

The Rockpool dishwasher, designed by the team from the University of NSW – Douglas Nash, Oystein Lie and Ross Nicholls – beat products developed by students from Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Portugal, Slovakia, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States.

“It’s very surreal that we won,” Nash, a 21-year-old from Dorrigo in northern NSW, told AAP.

“We just thought it would be cool to be put up in a five star hotel in New York.”

The esteemed judging panel, including one of the world’s leading industrial designers, Ross Lovegrove, announced the NSW University team as the winner at a ceremony in New York.

The panel was impressed with the environmental qualities a waterless, chemical-free dishwasher could provide consumers in the future.

“It uses carbon dioxide to clean the dishes,” Nash explained.

“Under pressure the carbon dioxide takes on special properties of a liquid and a gas so it dissolves grease and oil and it has no surface tension so it will cover everything, like a gas.

“It’s ideal because there are no moving parts in the machine so it’s great for quietness.”

A mass-produced version of the product, however, would not be viable for consumer use for many years.

“One of the guys here from Electrolux told me if they wanted to do it now it would be $400,000 a unit so there’s very little chance,” Nash said.

Electrolux spokesman Tony Evans said some features of the Sydney-based team’s product could be used further down the track in Electrolux products.

“There is a possibility some of the things developed by the students could find their way into real products down the road,” Evans said.

“It also allows us to see what the future looks like.