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Article: Hungarian Design Student Wins Electrolux Design Lab 2007 with E-wash Washing Machine.
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- November 28, 2007
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E-wash is compact washing machine that uses soap nuts instead of detergent. The winning designer is Levente Szabo from Moholy-Nagy University of Art & Design in Hungary.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- The 2007 Electrolux (STO:ELUXA) (STO:ELUXB) (LSE:ELXB) Design Lab, the fifth edition of this annual competition, challenged students to come up with environmentally-sound, commercially-viable products and solutions that would enable consumers to live in greater harmony with the environment.
In India and Nepal, people have used the soap nut (sapindus mucorossi) for centuries to get their clothes clean. Szabo says that a kilogram of soap nuts would last the typical ...