From: jarrett	Date: March 15th, 2004 09:14 am (UTC)		(Link)

I'll be damned.

I guess I'll get started on my next brilliant idea.

	From: jarrett	Date: March 15th, 2004 09:15 am (UTC)		(Link)

We can put a man on the moon, but we can't put a heating element in a washer? I don't buy it!

	From: yellzer	Date: March 15th, 2004 09:42 am (UTC)		(Link)

That was not the main point of my dismissal. It was the fact that not everything that goes in the wash you want to go in the dryer. Delicates, undergarments, rayon, silk, wool would be removed from the load normally as you transfer from wash to dry. If the load automatically started to dry after wash you would not have the opportunity to save these items. That was my main point not the heating element.

	From: macklinr	Date: March 15th, 2004 10:35 am (UTC)		(Link)

I think that if you put in some sort of "confirm you wanna dry stuff" button that it waits for you to push, then that would work. Better yet, just let the machine be capable of doing two separate functions without automatically going from one to the next. Otherwise, such a device would be rather useless when you just need to dry some clothes without washing them, like if your friend was caught in a rain storm, and he needed to go to a meeting dry. So, you put it on dry-only for a few minutes, and get a couple hands of naked-friend cribbage in.

From: dark_wolfe	Date: March 15th, 2004 05:13 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I liked my idea better--I had stackables in two of my apartments (dryer is above the washer). I said they should be be the other way around, with a trap door in the washer. That way, when washing is done, the clothes drop down into the dryer.

You still have separate units--can do two loads at the same time, but it has the benefit of Jarrett's idea where you don't have to move the clothes from the washer to the dryer.

Anyways, we'll never get rich off of our ideas :-(

	From: yellzer	Date: March 16th, 2004 12:55 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I like it...make it so #1