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- sparkmonkeyz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+42As far as I saw, washing the dishes had nothing to do with it. I would think that you would still have to wash them, because all this machine does is form the plastic into the dish that you need, and then when you are done with it, you pit it back in the machine, where it will wait to be molded again.
If you put in a dirty dish to be molded back to the original state, I don't think that it would clean it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+30Who in the ***** actually _wants_ to wash a dish?
- thelimopit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19"Don't you hate dishes?"
No, I don't. Didn't watch the rest.
I'll be impressed when he can do it with AOL cds. - jlebrech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Can be done the old way!!!
Blend your old dishes, then add the dust to some new clay and then stick it on a potterry wheel, and there you go!! - kuek1991, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Plus if you don't clean it first, the food will get burnt when trying to mold it back to a flat disk, making it even harder to clean.
- Troopy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15For one the dishes look like those nasty plastic disposables.
Secondly, if that machine heats up to 300 degrees, the power consumption must be ridiculously high?
Just wash the plates FFS! - mindsnare, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17who the hell wants a big ass dish factory in their kitchen.
- shrewduser, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13We didn't exactly evolve washing dishes (or created, depending which way you swing), its not some innate thing that people were meant to do....
- panguin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"blend your old dishes"
well, that answers that question. - andergriff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8A beautiful woman, candlelight, a bottle of wine, expensive silverware....and plastic dishes. How elegant.
- PaulRay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yeah, but the milk would run out the little hole...
- Charlotte_Web, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The Dishmaker unit looks like it takes up more space than my plates and bowls do currently. And if I really wanted to eat off of plastic, I could store a year's worth of pre-molded plastic plates and bowls in that same amount of space, and save on the cost of electricity.
Interesting concept, though. - TheElectricMonk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7mmm, soylent green
- im2emo4myshrt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9It's a prototype. And its no bigger than a dishwasher. If it gets some sort of self cleaning element as well that would be an amazing thing to have in a house. I mean maybe you would still need some nicer dishes for like dinner parties or something, but for everyday use that would be extremely useful.
- bede, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Throw them away eh? Because, of course, we don't produce anything like enough waste already.
If the next version cleans the dishes before re-forming them, why would I choose it over, say, a dishwasher? - antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuGvPhglGEc
- Availle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9An incredible waste of time and energy. I'd say it perfectly fits into this world.
- speezer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5In the future everybody will be eating soylent green and you don't need dishes for that.
- ryodoan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Wow... people cant just wash dishes by hand anymore? They have become so chained to their dishwashers that they cant use a damn sponge?
At risk of sounding like an old man, when I was growing up my parents refused to get a dishwasher (because it would have required extensive remodeling of the kitchen) so we had to wash all the dishes by hand.
So in this case, eat your food, wash the dishes by hand, stick them back into the machine..... Is this to hard? - TuxedoMax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I like how the guy in the video actually states that the machine saves energy and waste. The dishes fall apart after 100 uses and you have to heat them to 300 degrees twice in order to use them, not exactly the greenest technology I've seen.
- zippy757, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7"small amount of heat" .... Try like 3000 watts [like a electric clothes dryer ] twice, once to form and once to flatten...That would be a very expensive bowl.
Plus..."there's nothing like the smell of napalm in morning"somehow seems fitting here ...who would want the plastic smell in the house...? - Wonderkind, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6It's a very useful device.
It can serve as a horrible example. - moonhead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You need to *wash* dishes?
- keyrat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Exactly. The thing is the size of a dishwasher, it heats up like a dishwasher, and it doesn't clean. Not only that, you're stuck using acrylic cheap-o dishes. Finally, in my house, we call dishes with that shape "bowls". Who knows if it can even make a normal dish yet.
- pgoowy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I like the AOL cd idea...
- PaulRay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Soilent Green is People!!
IT'S PEEEEEEPPPPPUUULLL!!!!!!! - schneb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I hate it when people do not think "practical". I mean, the machine itself takes up how much space? I think a better idea would be a dishwasher cabinet. Put the dishes away dirty, then when you open it the next day, all dishes are clean.
- ThirdPrize, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Could be useful if we ever run out of clay?!?!?
- bronstad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2finally... a use for the damn things... cereal bowls for squirrels!
- HolyJuan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Now, if they can combine this technology with the most recent blow up doll technolgy, I might be a little more interested.
- wildmXranat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hmmm - One centralized factory for all of our dishes, plates whatever or - many, No no - one for each home.
Waste of material, energy and time. - bronstad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2agreed. it is ingenious, however, it is also wasteful. i would sooner hire someone to come by my place every day and wash my dishes before i'd buy this thing.
- logicalnoise, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2people seem to miss the biggest point of the device. The fact that a plate can become a bowl in a just a couple minutes. Yeah the storage aspect works ans well as the idea but the main point is haveing 20 acrylic flat blanks which cqan act as your entire culinary serving supply.
- AnteChronos, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4@diggimator
"This thing just wastes energy bending flat discs into bowls and back again."
Depends on your criteria for wastefulness. With this, you only need a small amount of raw material to make many kinds of dishes, so the total amount of material that needs to be manufactured per person is less, reducing energy consumption and waste at the manufacturing end. This can also replace paper plates with something sturdier and reusable, further reducing energy consumption at the manufacturing end, and reducing waste at both the manufacturing and disposal end of the product's life cycle - Coffeedemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2100 plates? No reason a family of four can't get by on a 16 piece set of Corelle. Costs about 15 bucks, lasts forever and takes up about a 12"X8" space...
Dishwashers should never be thought of as anything more than convenience and not an energy saver ... just wash the dishes in the sink with some warm water and soap, princess. - chicbicyclist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It looks horribly inefficient and too complicated at the same time. Extra space in exchange for wasted energy? I'll take the extra space and earthenware pottery please. The thing will at least be minimally carbon neutral. 300*F EACH time you want a dish and each time you want to store it is not "tiny bits of energy".
I'm surprised the blog linked from treehugger. - golfe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Of course the dishes still would still need to be washed.
Nevertheless, this is very creative idea and an interesting use of materials and design. It's not going to revolutionize our lives, but give the guy some credit for his novel creation. - mr1337, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Come on guys, RTFA!!!
"Oh, you just can't actually eat off of the dishes yet, unless you want to wash them yourself...lest you add some stale Spaghetti O's to the mix. But the next version is proposed to support cleaning as well." - ironbear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great. It makes bowls. I wash a bowl or two a day by hand. How about frying pans, kettles, pots, plates, knives, forks and spoons? You know, the things I spend a lot of time washing. Point is: acrylic may be OK in a limited way for eating off of, but this thing isn't going to replace much of anything at my place.
- Layne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Interesting concept, but it is going to need at least a couple of decades before I'd even consider it. How much energy would I really be saving if I have to power this machine so often?
- cracell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The concept is flawed.
This wastes energy and has you eating in plastic crappy bowls, plates, and plates. Cool idea, but inefficient and useless as applied. - diggimator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@AnteChronos
Okay, let's say you need to store six times more plates without the Dishmaker. By the seventh day of christmas, you've already manufactured more plates by using the Dishmaker. How could manufacturing plates multiple times possibly be more energy saving than manufacturing plates only once? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think the Japanese have that.
- FrugalFreak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i do like the idea of the machine, not for dishes, but as a base for designing products that are more customized individually. for example, using a similar machine to make molds for pen casings then throw old broken acrylic household scraps into a acylic maker to make outer shell for telephone, when the phone breaks, throw all old acrylic scraps back in machine and make toliet seat. could eliminate alot of waste versus buying EVERY thing we use over and over. now if we could only make it solar powered. the idea of downloading configured product designs helps
- dreadful, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its a good idea but you still have to clean the dishes
- dracostimpy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Do you have 14 kids? If not, I can't imagine dishes cutting into your family time by more than a few minutes. Also, if I recall correctly from watching "Little House on the Prairie" as a youngster, dish time can actually = family time if you can prevent your kids from bolting for the XBox 2.3 nanoseconds after their last bite of Kraft macaroni.
- insub2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ charlotte_web
sarcasm. - zhouray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ryodoan
Washing dishes is not hard. But it is repetitive and should be left for the machine so that you can do something else (hopefully useful, or meaningful) with your time.
I don't suppose you wash all your clothes with bare hands, do you? - coolheader90, on 03/27/2009, -0/+1Cool check on my blog on how to choose a washing machine.
- xcoastie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"In just 15min you can have all the dishes you need for a family of four." lol
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