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A total absense of tech would be bad for a washing machine. With a really simple conductivity sensor (basically just two electrodes on the sides of a plastic pipe) and an opacity sensor (an IR LED and an LDR on opposite sides of a clear pipe), you can measure how much stuff is dissolved in water and how much insoluable stuff is suspended. That then means that you can keep circulating the soapy water until it stops getting dirtier, then keep rinsing it out until it stops getting cleaner, which then means you can have the cycle times adjust themselves to how soiled the load is, instead of just making them as long as the worst case scenario might require and wasting energy, water, and time on an average load.

I thought about this too. People are sick of this shit.

Just Uncomplicated Socialist Tech

Cars too!! Just a basic car, without too many bells and whistles. Electric windows and central locks are nice but unnecessary. Just more things that can break. Defo no screens or 'smart' stuff.

Where do I sign up?

I'd just build my own, like I did for my water purifier. It ain't that hard.

My refrigerator is still going strong at 22 years

I thought multiple times about resurrecting this: https://www.lincrevable.com/en/

Shut up and take my money.

IANAL but somehow I get the feeling that entering those industries as a new guy would be a real pain in the ass at the patent office.

Great idea for a quick cash grab but then you will lose growth. You will run into insta pot problems where the product was too good and lacked room for innovation. But someone should do it anyways.

He’d get unalivened within a month.

https://frame.work/ kinda does this for computers, it would be nice to more manufactures follow this lead.

Ooh a company that sells refrigirators that don't suck. Call it "suckless."

I'll invest in this guy today.