Samsung Silver Wash sterilizing washing machine
By Ryan Block 
posted Aug 31st 2005 5:15PM
posted Aug 31st 2005 5:15PM
Whereas at one point if you told us there was a sterilizing washing machine that killed 99.99% of live bacteria by
electrolyzing 400 billion silver ions during the wash and rinse cycles, we might have chortled. But now we know better
now than to doubt advanced Korean obsessive compulsive
sterilization technology. But unless you keep your
garments in an environment that ensures germ-free stasis, it probably won't matter very much even though Samsung claims
the machine prevents future bacteria from clinging to the clothes… if that's possible.
[Via Medgadget]
OMFG, this would be awesome for my wedding present
I love the fact they've put a outline of a washing machine around the girl!: She may be a foxy chick but to Samsung she's also a walking washing machine! Now to start selling them...
wonder what happens when you ionize your teeny weeny electronics that you leave in your pocket.
probably nothing that a 100*F wash cycle wont already short out.
A friend who works for a leading manufacturer of washing machines told me once that their tests showed that front-loaders leave a LOT more live E. coli on your clothes than top-loaders.
super washing machine, it's said that it kills 650 different types of bacteria
Try this:
http://www.ogormans.co.uk/dyson5.htm
Looks to me like Samsung is conducting an experiment on how long it takes for that surviving .01% to evolve into a race of Giant Atomic Super-Bacteria.
What's the point of keeping the clothes bacteria free? You as a person are certainly not. There are more bacterial cells on/in your body than there are human cells. All this incessant sterilization does is give rise to bugs that are resistant to our means of eliminating them. Thats why the real nasties (MRSA) are in the hospitals where antibiotics are given in such abundance. All this is gonna destroy us in the end.
I agree with #7 and #8. And aside from the points they made, the US (as well as SoKo) is a first world country. You will not contract cholera or dysentery by licking your freshly laundered socks.
Sounds like that colloidal silver stuff. There's a lot of studies that say it doesn't work. I don't believe it.
http://bravomedic.blogspot.com
yes its possible for the wash to prevent future bacteria from clinging if u read carefully the silver ions are in the wash liquid so the silver ions just stay in your clothes and silver ions do kill bacteria ... the catch is u need to by more silver ions later ... this is complety useless a waste of money i completely agree with post 8 t
The ideal person would be the bubble boy. Otherwise this is utterly useless! I would rather buy a Washer/dryer in one with super sensors inside.
As prev posts hint at, all this paranoia about germs is going to make us very vulnerable to all manner of diseases, viruses and bacteria as our anti-bodies are rendered useless and, as per our appendix.
Although I share concerns about super-bugs, what you tend to see with such specialized bacteria is that they can only survive in the specialized environments that created them; so while there is Vancomycin-resistant streptococcus in hospitals, it can't survive outside a hospital.
Meanwhile, from Samsung's FAQ:
"The silver plate can resist around 2,000 full loading washes. If it is used 3 times a week it will last more than 13 years."
If you are so filthy that your clothes are consistantly crawling with germs then you have bigger lifestyle problems that this machine isn't going to be able to solve.
Agreed with #14. Color-safe bleach is sometimes oxymoronic, certainly ironic when your black slacks are decidedly not-black upon removal.
Still, hot water and bleach are the only way to defeat allergens and microbal pests.
-C
"You will not contract cholera or dysentery by licking your freshly laundered socks."
Yeah...but after *I've* been wearing them for 12+ hours, simple exposing them directly to the air could result in fatalities...
All in all I agree, for home use this is a bit much. Hot water and bleach will kill the vast majority of stuff everyday people are likely to encounter IN THEIR CLOTHES. I should think if we wanted to 'anti-bacterialize' any specific appliance in the home it would be the DISHWASHER that cleans things you PUT IN YOUR MOUTH or eat off of.
Kinda like those anti-bacterial cell phones...one would think that material could be put to better use coating say...(public) sinks, toilets, and tubs...maybe even door knobs where lots of cross contamination occurs as opposed to your cell phone where you are more likely to simple re-contaminate yourself than anyone else.
Yeah, cleanliness is a good idea, but I think the targeting in this case is a bit off...
If it actually would work it would be nice, only problem is with every pathogen you try to destroy, there will always be at least one that isn't destroyed. This natural selection will cause serious problems one day.
As for #15, what if you work at a rescue squad? Vomit and blood aren't particularly nice things to have on your clothes.
http://bravomedic.blogspot.com
Samsung uses this patented Silver Nano Technology on some of their mobile phones in South Korea.
Yeah, but does it play OGG? =)