lee wei chen: arcade washing machine
‘amusement washing machine’ by lee wei chen all images courtesy of kingston university, london / lee wei chen
lee wei chen master of design student at london’s kingston university takes laundry to the next level with his ‘amusement washing machine’. chen’s version of the home appliance resembles that of an arcade style video console that houses a washing machine in the bottom half of the unit.
the idea spawned when the studying designer was no longer happy with just shooting alien invaders. he wanted to utilize his ‘wasted but enjoyable time’ and make it more productive. ‘I realized the skills I had developed in the virtual world were useless in the real world. I wanted to make them useful,‘ he explains.
the bottom half of the gaming console unit houses a washing machine
to use the machine, players are required to put three pound coins into the washer which in turn dispenses three lives. this also turns the appliance on. if a player fails to progress beyond a particular level without losing their lives, the washing machine responds by refusing to move onto the next stage of its cycle, and hence the player needs to add more money.
chen’s’s course leader colin holden says of the project: ‘this is a big and original idea – examining the possibility of transporting enjoyment and skills of electronic gaming into the more mundane world of practical electronic devices. he has chosen two instantly recognizable objects – a washing machine and an arcade game – to illustrate his idea. together the two objects produce a striking new electronic device. it’s an extremely well-executed design concept.‘
once money is fed into the machine, the player is given three lives to wash their clothes
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Really, really, really, really, really, really, really, Really meaningless.
The design crisis seems deeper than I thought. The flood of new useless and simply stupid things is increasing day after day.
Let the lazy kid wash his clothes by hand. 🙂 It’d be a better experience for him.
thumbs up for the previous commenter.