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Japan Unveils Human Washing Machine, Now You Can Get Washed Like Laundry (www.ndtv.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Sunflier@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Wonder if there's a spin cycle. Ha.

Seriously though. This should really help the elderly or those with a physical limitation.

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I’m honestly shocked Japan didn’t make something like this way back in the 1980s.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

modern revival of a similar invention featured at the 1970 Osaka Expo

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago

Should've looked up on the interwebs before doubting the glorious nation. 💢

In 1970, a peculiar invention made waves at the Japan World Exposition, a world’s fair devoted to “Progress and Harmony for Mankind.” The Ultrasonic Bath, created by Sanyo Electric Co.—the modern Panasonic Holdings Corp—was described as a “human washing machine,” and symbolized the future of hygiene. While it never took off commercially, the invention was stuck in the mind of a fourth-grader named Yasuaki Aoyama. Fast forward more than half a century, and the company he now leads has given this concept another try.

https://mymodernmet.com/human-washing-machine-science-co/

https://www.core77.com/posts/134471/A-Washing-Machine-for-Human-Beings-from-1970

[–] khepri@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This actually seems like the kind of nonsense that gets "invented" once a decade or so. There's just no way this is humanity's very first crack at "washing machine but it does people" lol