Tech Eye: Time to bin your iron
The Dressman promises to end that most hated of household chores-ironing. The device, which looks like a high-tech tailor's dummy, uses an inflatable body to iron your shirts and dry clean your clothes without any effort from you, other than hanging your garments on it and flicking the on switch.
The body is made from balloon silk and inflates itself with hot air in a matter of minutes. It has 12 programmable options for ironing silk, rayon, cotton, linen and all other non-stretch fabrics, and a shirt can be crispy fresh in just 90 seconds, as opposed to the eight minutes Siemens thinks a mere human takes (I'm closer to the 30-minute mark). No more scorch marks either, as the thing turns itself off.
The only drawback is the price, a hefty zł.4,599. But with no more dry-cleaning bills, no burned figures and all those idle minutes left to fill, surely you can earn a little extra to pay for it?
This all seems too good to be true. Could the days of slaving over a hot ironing board (or, in my case, coming into work with perenially crumpled shirts) really be finished? We're not sure but in the interests of research and journalism, we're all pitching in together to buy one for the office.
L.M.
The body is made from balloon silk and inflates itself with hot air in a matter of minutes. It has 12 programmable options for ironing silk, rayon, cotton, linen and all other non-stretch fabrics, and a shirt can be crispy fresh in just 90 seconds, as opposed to the eight minutes Siemens thinks a mere human takes (I'm closer to the 30-minute mark). No more scorch marks either, as the thing turns itself off.
The only drawback is the price, a hefty zł.4,599. But with no more dry-cleaning bills, no burned figures and all those idle minutes left to fill, surely you can earn a little extra to pay for it?
This all seems too good to be true. Could the days of slaving over a hot ironing board (or, in my case, coming into work with perenially crumpled shirts) really be finished? We're not sure but in the interests of research and journalism, we're all pitching in together to buy one for the office.
L.M.
