Aimed at off-grid tiny home dwellers, campers and city folk looking to reduce their environmental impact, and their utility bills, the Drumi originally went up for pre-order back in 2015. Now, after ...

Drumi — a funky, new household product — is a washing machine. But instead of electricity, the R2-D2-looking device uses a pedal, which means you can knock out a little exercise and laundry in one ...

The Drumi is a portable foot-powered washing machine that needs no source of electricity and can washing and spin dry clothes in five minutes Yirego A Canadian startup has invented a pint-size ...

Three years ago we heard about the GiraDora, a foot-pedal-powered clothes-washing machine created for off-grid use in developing nations. While many of our readers expressed an interest in it, the ...

Each week, we seek expert advice to help a small or medium-sized business overcome a key issue. Living in a high-rise building is common in many North American cities, though it certainly comes with ...

A washing machine that can fit in a micro-condo and uses no electricity has won a national award for its Toronto designer. The Drumi clothes washer is about the size of a water cooler bottle, weighs ...

Doing laundry is a fairly simple chore. Building an off-grid, human-powered washing machine is rather a more complicated matter, as Yi Jiang is continuing to find out. The founder of Yirego Corp., a ...

The luxury of washing machines is something that families in many parts of the world just can’t afford, but the team behind GiraDora wants to change that. The group has developed an innovative ...

The competition aimed to find designs to reduce the burden of handwashing in low-income areas. Kai Goodall is now planning to produce prototypes for testing in Cape Town townships. A University of ...

Returning from holiday with a pile of dirty clothes could soon be a thing of the past. An inventor in Toronto has designed a portable washing machine that works without electricity, uses 80 per cent ...

When two design students from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California visited a village outside of Lima, Peru, they realized they would put their skills to use on improving the lives ...