This is exactly what we observe for goods such as toasters, TVs, iPods, washers and dryers.
One executive of a large household-appliance manufacturer in the Midwest told me that customers like his washing machines and dryers.
Dryers took just four years to take off in Sweden, but 11 years in Britain and 12 years in Portugal.
The poor enjoyed as many or more cars, trucks, clothes dryers and refrigerators in 2001 as the middle class in 1971.
After completing a two-year test, Home Depot announced it will start selling washer-dryers and refrigerators in all of its stores by year-end.
Embedded systems on washing machines, dryers, and refrigerators can be monitored and controlled from and can send alerts to smartphones or browsers.
But rarely do they think about less exotic devices like hair dryers.
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After a two-year test Home Depot just announced it will start selling washer-dryers and refrigerators in all of its stores by year-end.
Freitchen also points out some good buys in small kitchen appliances like stand mixers and larger appliances like washers and dryers from Sears.
Always keep such clothes away from irons and clothes dryers. (A steamer is a gentler alternative.) This is especially true for bras, shapers and tights.
One truck and a fleet of vans house over 32 energy-efficient washers and dryers that are capable of cleaning over 300 loads of laundry every day.
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To create a powdered insulin suitable for a foil pack, it adapted the same kind of spray dryers used for coating corn chips with cheese flakes.
Freestanding units -- upright appliances about four feet tall that look like hair dryers from "The Jetsons" era -- power the invisible beams of harmless light.
In addition, from cell phones to computers, washers and dryers to electronic ignition for cars would be damaged by a massive solar storm that directly hit the Earth.
In their bathroom, tubes of hair gel, hair spray bottles, flatirons, blow-dryers, brushes and makeup compacts battled for counter space, with bobby pin casualties scattered on the floor.
Once waters recede, crews sometimes have to use hair dryers to get water out of signal equipment and other circuits that are essential to the transit system, Mr. Foley said.
Stainless steel fittings would be replaced with a more hygienic composite material, ergonomic and vandal-resistant dryers would be installed, as would better lighting, hooks for bags and coats and easy-to-use locks.
With Adele belting it out over the sound system, rising above the roar of nine blow-dryers on full blast, women ages 21 to 62 are spun out sleek and smooth.
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Manufacturers report, for instance, that annual sales of tableware dryers, which heat cutlery and the like to temperatures sufficient to kill all but the hardiest of bugs, are running at about 360, 000 units.
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Picture the fairgrounds -- perhaps enlarged several fold -- filled to the brim with ultra-slim televisions, giant smartphones, tablets, laptops and enough washers and dryers to keep the entire population of Germany's wardrobe squeaky clean.
Washers and dryers in dorm laundry rooms can be connected to the Internet via equipment from Mac-Gray (nyse: TUC - news - people ) or privately held USA Technologies , based in Malvern, Pa.
We discussed the strangely tiny build of 18th century women and the discomfort of girdles, looked at centuries-old objects like sock dryers and sausage makers, and deciphered old letters, including the infamous valentine and one from George Washington himself.
The energy consumption data also could help home and business owners take stock of their energy use and take actions to save money, such as putting in more energy efficient light bulbs and appliances or running washers and dryers only when electric rates are low.
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