{"id":1893,"date":"2015-04-05T16:42:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T14:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2018-02-16T23:11:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T22:11:49","slug":"a-washing-machine-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2015\/04\/a-washing-machine-for-life.html","title":{"rendered":"A Washing Machine for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/washing-machine-for-life-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1896 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/washing-machine-for-life-2-500x353.jpg\" alt=\"washing machine for life 2\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/washing-machine-for-life-2-500x353.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/washing-machine-for-life-2.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;<em>L&#8217;Increvable<\/em> (which means indestructable in French) is the concept of a washing machine whose lifespan is fifty years. Gone are the days when your washing machine had an abrupt end of life after 5 years of use because of a single bearing.<\/p>\n<p>With <em>L&#8217;Increvable<\/em> you change each component when needed. You don&#8217;t have to be a handy(wo)man: the Increvable website guides you through each component maintenance thanks to well-documented tutorials and each new component is delivered with proper tools.<\/p>\n<p>You buy the washing machine in flat-pack form and then you assemble it yourself : it gives you the opportunity to get to know the machine. The traditional 30 kg (60 lbs) of cement ballast are replaced by a water tank. The latter is automatically filled during the first use of the machine. This means that the machine can be made lighter again when it needs to be moved.<\/p>\n<p>By removing all highly technical and hardly replaceable parts from the structure and built with such specifications from the ground up, the <em>Increvable<\/em> is destined to be easily manipulable by the mere user. The missing technologic parts (i.e. touchable screen) do change the User Experience in a very fundamental way, giving maybe to some of us a certain old school feel to the tech but adds several dozens of years before obsolescence as a result.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See &amp; read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/apartfromux.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/25\/the-end-of-scheduled-obsolescence-or-lincrevable\/\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesdysonaward.org\/projects\/lincrevable\/\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thunderclap.it\/projects\/24263-l-increvable\" target=\"_blank\">3<\/a>. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/christophersanterre.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Santerre<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;L&#8217;Increvable (which means indestructable in French) is the concept of a washing machine whose lifespan is fifty years. Gone are the days when your washing machine had an abrupt end of life after 5 years of use because of a single bearing. With L&#8217;Increvable you change each component when needed. You don&#8217;t have to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[321,315,89,17,81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1909,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/1909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}