This Beautiful Design Finally Fulfills the Washer’s Round-Machine Destiny

Could sharp, pointy corners and box-like form factors join faux-wood finishes in the industrial design graveyard? Bauknecht, Whirlpool's European brand, has collaborated with German designer Arman Emami to create this stunning round washing machine that looks like it belongs front and center in your living room—not your basement.In fact, a round washing machine makes some sense—the drum is a round, spinning cylinder. Why has it always had to conform to an oversized square box? A washing machine could naturally resemble jet engine, giving the impression that dirt is being sucked right off your clothing.
So what if you can't stack this unit, or fold towels on top of it, or stash your laundry detergent and stain remover above it? When your washing machine looks like it was borrowed from The Jetsons' apartmentIt's hard to even lament the fact that this new design is no more efficient than current models.Now, if only Bauknecht could let us know if and when this beauty goes on sale. Because right now, it's just making us feel bad about the mundane white boxes hiding in our laundry rooms.Phoenix says that Vicarious's software, like the human brain, essentially learns by seeing a series of images and forming connections in response.Use Fixed Size Disks to Speed Up Your Virtual Machines.This means it's smart enough to identify an object even if there's missing information—it will, for example, still recognize an arm even if it's obscured by paint or a wristwatch.
Vicarious has not published details of its technology. But the company, which was created in 2010, has piqued the interest of some investors. Last month, it raised a $15 million series A round of venture funding from a group of investors that includes Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz.The judge said since the machine was going to be used to access all call subscriber details, including what numbers a mobile phone had called, this is an invasion of people's privacy.It is at this point that the judge said the machine had the potential to be abused as it had the capability to eavesdrop into people's conversations, emails and text messages.In October last year the High Court in Blantyre also stopped MACRA from switching on the machine.At that time, just is the case with the latest ruling, the court gave an order to government's telecommunication regulating arm, restraining it from getting Call Details Records from the country's telephone operators.Politicians and human rights activists led the masses challenged implementation of the 'spy machine' which at that time MACRA was planning to silently switch on amidst vehement protest from telecommunication companies and subscribers.