7 Crazy Kitchen Appliances
By Lisa Montgomery
A few wacky appliances that actually could be helpful around the house.

Electrolux sponsors a design contest each year in hopes of discovering a few promising innovations in household appliances.

Hundreds of undergraduate and graduate industrial design students from around the globe compete by submitting their concepts to the Electrolux Design Lab.

Here are a few that caught my attention.

They may be wacky, but they’d sure be helpful around my household.



Bifoliate Wall-Mounted Dishwasher
There are two chores that I loathe: putting away the laundry and unloading the dishwasher. The Bifoliate is a wall-mounted dishwasher that lets you put dirty dishes in one compartment and use the other as a shelf for clean dishes.

iBasket Clothes Hamper
Here’s a great laundry solution, especially if your home has a lot of stairs like mine does. The iBasket stores dirty clothes and washes them automatically when the bin is full. Just hope those dirty socks make it into the basket. You can check up on the contents inside the WiFi-connected appliance via the Internet.

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