Your washer is watching you

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I went out in search of this one. I liked that the round door suggests an eye.

I almost scrolled by an article about a recent innovation in laundry. GE plans to make combination washer dryers.

Yes, you read that correctly — one machine will both wash and dry your clothes.

Why are they making this change? According to GE Appliances, the typical American load sits unattended for more than two hours. This finding was based on data collected from 13 million cycles across 90,000 homes between 2020 and 2022. Remembering to switch our clothes from one machine to another presents an obstacle to getting our laundry clean by way of the dreaded friction, so it is best to do away with the step altogether.

Perhaps you aren't like me. Perhaps this combination machine made you go, "Hot damn, that's going to make doing laundry even easier! No more doing a load of wash more than once because they sat too long and ended up a little smelly…" and went about your scrolling.

My question was, "Is my washing mach…