"smart" -- gadgets promoted at this massive technology trade show includes washing machines that send text messages and communicate with smartphones, refrigerators that play music from the internet, and kitchen ovens that download recipes and can essentially teach you to cook.

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The same will be true for appliances, which he pegs at 10% to 15% dollar growth based on demand for more fashionable and technology-driven refrigerators and washing machines.

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The washing machine or vaccum cleaner as examples of the technology that have freed women from household drudgery, the contraceptives that have continued their economic emancipation are also on the list.

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That same mini washing cycle involving beads and chambers is still the core technology.

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Even after 20 years of research, the technology available has not been good enough for use washing dishes, gardening and other activities that involve handling sharp-edged objects.

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