Yikes. As much as I'm all for energy-efficient machines, this one would stomp all our fun right into the ground! Interesting, though. Wonder what will ever come of it?
I saw a film back in junior high (around 1972) in which clothes washers and dishwashers of the future (the year 2000, which ironically, is now the past...) would not use water, but rather ultrasonic sound waves to clean.
And where's my goddam personal jet-pack?!!