Panasonic
About Panasonic
Panasonic Holdings Corporation is a Japanese multinational electronics manufacturer, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan. It was founded in 1918 as Matsushita Electric Housewares Manufacturing Works in the Fukushima ward of Osaka by Kōnosuke Matsushita. The company was incorporated in 1935 and renamed Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., and changed its name to Panasonic Corporation in 2008. In 2022, it reorganized as a holding company and adopted its current name.
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Panasonic have funded 10% of this new product, which some people have dubbed a Laundroid, and it is a machine that folds your clothes for you. The company that invented this say that they've worked out that the average person spends 9,000 hours of their life folding clothes.
from 158: No Such Thing As A Weasel's Fridge, 2017-03-31 at 00:31:40 · read transcript
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Wow. 10 minutes per fold. I don't like to boast. I've managed to get it down to something a little more like seven. What was the company? The Panasonic. Panasonic did this, yeah. I think we should give a little bit of balance. Samsung have got some good innovations in washing machines at the moment. Some of the more recent innovations, I'm not quite sure what all these are, but the latest models have got eco-bubble, whatever that is, wobble technology, you know what that is, and a magic dispenser.
158: No Such Thing As A Weasel's Fridge, 2017-03-31 · listen
Is there really a button just says curry? Well, I saw a picture on the BBC website and I don't know if they mocked it up as a sort of joke picture, but there's one extra button which is a setting. Obviously, this is a Panasonic, it's a digital interface kind of thing, but it says curry and then it says oil as well. There is one, it's an extra setting for hair oil traces, yeah.
158: No Such Thing As A Weasel's Fridge, 2017-03-31 · listen
So basically what they've realized is obviously the main staple of food in India is curry, and the way that it breaks down in a washing machine isn't that good. Predominantly, that's the main stain that you're getting as well, so they wanted to deal with that. Panasonic have spent two years analyzing the ingredients of curry. They've been studying water temperatures and so on, and they've now, worked out a way that removes the stains properly.
No Such Thing As A Weasel's Fridge, 2017-03-31 · listen
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