This compact tabletop dishwasher lets you quickly spray-wash your dishes with 80% less water

Sort of like a mini car-wash for your dishes, the Shabosh is equal parts a dish rack and a dishwasher, letting you easily, rapidly, and efficiently wash your dishes. You see, washing dishes by hands is effective, but requires energy, a lot of water, and a general willingness to slave over a kitchen sink and scrub every dish. Dishwashers seem convenient, but are energy-intensive, use a lot of water, and are downright expensive. Designed pretty much as a cross between the two, the Shabosh is a countertop dishwasher that lets you hose down your dishes, using as little as 3 liters of water to get the job done – a staggering 80% lower than dishwashers that can use upwards of 12 liters for the same task. The Shabosh is compact enough to sit on any kitchen counter, and has a clear cabinet design that lets you wash and store your dishes inside it, letting them drip dry but also keeping them on display so you know where your dishes are. Moreover, using the Shabosh takes all of 40 seconds, letting you quickly clean your dishes with pressurized water in less time than it takes to watch a video on TikTok.

Designer: Shabosh

With an aquarium-like aesthetic and a compact footprint, the Shabosh sits perfectly on your kitchen counter or kitchen island. Equipped with an adaptable tray surface that lets you dock all your dishes, pans, bowls, cutlery, glasses, and more, and a patented, high-pressure handheld spray ‘wand’ that atomizes and heats water up to temperatures of 149℉ (65℃), the Shabosh lets you hose food and grease right off your crockery in seconds. Quite like cleaning your car with a high-pressure water spray, Shabosh uses a combination of heat and pressurized water + soap to clean your dishes without soaking, scrubbing, and rinsing them. The aquarium-like glass chamber contains the water spray, keeping your kitchen clean and dry, and the dishes get their dishwasher-like treatment, coming out spic and span with just under a gallon (3 liters) of water. Once washed, leave them to drip dry in the Shabosh and either store them back in your cabinets or take them out to use them again. Simple, eh?

What Shabosh cleverly does is make manual washing fast and easy, all on your countertop so you’re never really left with a kitchen sink that’s filled to the brim with dirty dishes. Just load the dishes right into the Shabosh, plug the appliance in, fill up the tank below with water from your sink, pour a pump or two of your favorite dish soap, and it takes all of 40 seconds to spray your dirty dishes clean. The patented handheld spray wand turns water droplets into atomized particles that hit your dishes at high pressure, knocking crumbs, sauces, oils, butter, or any other food right off the surface. The technology uses 80% less water and 70x less power than your conventional dishwasher, say the makers behind Shabosh.

Even though it’s pretty compact, measuring just 13.8 inches in each direction and weighing 10.8 lbs (4.9 kilograms), the Shabosh was designed to hold all kinds of utensils, thanks to its modular, adjustable dish-rack system. The inner compartment is big enough for one saucepan, two plates, two soup bowls, 2 glasses, and 8 pieces of cutlery, and removable brackets let you add more plate holders if necessary. Moreover, if you’re cooking up a storm and you’ve got loads of dishes to wash, the Shabosh makes clean-up easier than manually hand-washing all those dishes. It takes all of 40 seconds to clean an entire set of utensils, so you can pretty much run three cleaning cycles in roughly 2 minutes.

With a €119 ($130) price tag, the Shabosh was designed to be a compact, energy-efficient, and affordable alternative to owning a dishwasher. Not everyone has the money or even the space for a dishwasher, which is what really makes the Shabosh such a compelling alternative. It occupies a fraction of the space, and can be kept on any countertop during use (with access to a power outlet, of course). The Shabosh uses 1/5th the amount of water as a dishwasher, 70 times less energy, and as far as effort goes, it does the job in a fraction of the time it takes to actually hand-scrub and hand-wash your dishes. What truly seals the deal, however, is the Shabosh’s transparent design, which looks much better than having a kitchen sink stacked with dirty dishes. The dishes sit in an organized manner within the transparent chamber, and drip-dry on their own without making a watery mess on your kitchen counter. When all’s said and done, you can either tuck your Shabosh away in a kitchen cabinet or just keep it on your counter because it looks so clean and minimalistic!

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A miniature dishwasher conceptualized to do the dishes after small family meals

In smaller families these days we have lesser dishes to do. This is perhaps a single major benefit of living independently or with only your spouse and kids. However, if the fast-paced, workaholic lifestyle doesn’t leave you with the energy to even do a few dishes at the end of the day; it’s time to invest in a compact, desktop dishwasher to do the dirty chore for you.

A desktop dishwasher like the Bugu is ideally conceptualized to do the dishes after a small family meal. The miniature dishwasher, with the proficiency to do a commendable job in its petit capacity, will make the chore feel slightly more convenient.

Designer: Pams Zhang

The entry-level dishwasher, Bugu is conceived with the idea of making the appliance affordable for all. With low-income families in mind, the structure and construction of the device is pretty basic. The plasticky body features a flip-open top lid, with vibrant colored bezels for an attractive appearance. Its flip-type opening with a slight angle is designed specifically to facilitate taking and placing tableware inside effortlessly.

As evident from the image renders, the dishwasher has slots for cutlery and plates – both steel and ceramic – and features a touchscreen display on the front for easy control. The size of the device makes it easy to have your dishwasher installed right on the countertop saving you all the effort required in slotting and installing a dishwasher under the counter.

Ensuring basic cleaning functions and simple use, the Bugu caters to all the cleaning requirements of a small family. As far as the design is concerned, it has a comfortable, eye-pleasing appearance, made certain by a clean and simple design. All in all, with Bugu on your countertop you have a dishwasher that adapts to your family’s needs and is aesthetically pleasing for guests.

 

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Innovative handheld dishwasher uses a high-pressure jet of steam to clean dishes without chemicals or soap

With a nozzle inspired by a water-saving showerhead, the Dayoo Kitchen Steam Cleaner & Dishwasher permits you to use less water to clean more dishes in mere minutes.

The contemporary dishwasher is a marvel of design and engineering… but it does have a few distinct flaws. For starters, it’s like a carwash for utensils. The nozzle within the dishwasher just senselessly sprays hot water in every possible direction, hoping to get food and grime off your utensils. It doesn’t necessarily target stains because it doesn’t ‘see’ them, and it wastes a massive amount of water trying to clean all your utensils regardless of their quantity and how they’ve been arranged on the trays. Washing utensils in your kitchen sink, however, is much more resource-efficient because you use an appropriate amount of water for a given set of utensils. The problem, though, is that it requires effort manually scrubbing grime off your utensils. Dayoo hybridizes both devices, combining them into one kitchen solution that relies on the best of both worlds.

Designer: Dayoo Design

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Sitting on your kitchen counter with the demeanor of a sleek EV Charging Station, Dayoo is, in fact, a handheld dishwasher that uses a high-pressure jet of hot steam to clean and sterilize your dishes. Designed to make cleaning utensils faster, effective, and energy-efficient, Dayoo’s high-pressure jet uses a spray of tiny water droplets heated to temperatures of 221°F (105°C) to clean dirt off your plate in seconds without soaking, soaping, or scrubbing (or even getting your hands dirty or greasy).

The heated steam does a more efficient job of getting grease and food off your plates and spoons, and the aerated nozzle uses less water than any traditional faucet, saving you time and water in the process. In fact, spraying your dishes clean with Dayoo is just about as easy as watering your plants, say its creators.

Dayoo hopes to offer a more effective and affordable alternative to those massive, expensive, water-hungry and power-guzzling dishwashers you find on the market. Not everyone has the space or the budget for a dishwasher, but everyone has to wash dishes, so Dayoo takes the dishwasher’s key benefits and condenses it into a small $159 appliance that fits in any kitchen, and can be used to clean more than just your dishes.

The entire device is about as uncomplicated as it gets. A wall-mounted module pressurizes and heats the water up, and a hand-shower lets you spray-clean your utensils. The entire system comes with one single stepless dial that lets you choose the water pressure intensity, and a trigger on the hand-shower lets you deploy the hot steam to clean your dishes. Dayoo can heat water up to temperatures of 221°F, which obviously raises safety concerns, but the company behind the appliance says that as long as your hand is 4 inches away from the nozzle, you’re fine. The dispersed jets of water droplets cool down pretty fast, and if you’re even slightly concerned, just pop on a pair of rubber kitchen gloves.

It’s recommended that you hold your Dayoo 0.8 inches or 2 centimeters away from your dishes to clean them effectively. As soon as the steam is released, it cools down to 122°F or 50°C, making it safe for utensils and other objects but tough on stains. The purpose of the heated steamy water, Dayoo’s engineering team highlights, is to help get tough stains out of dishes and objects. The heated water lets you clean exceptionally dirty utensils and objects without using solvents and chemicals, and Dayoo’s hand-shower even sports a swappable nozzle system that feels reminiscent of a vacuum cleaner.

The vacuum cleaner comparison feels even more apt considering the Dayoo appliance can plug out of your wall too. Designed to be carried around and used around your house Dayoo lets you even steam-clean stains from your stovetop, chimney, kitchen exhaust, oven rack, and even barbecue grill. The swappable nozzle can be replaced for one with a nozzle + scouring pad to clean grease and sticky residue, and the steam-based cleaning system works well as a mild chemical-free sterilizer too, allowing you to sterilize objects like your baby’s toys, bottles, etc. while even cleaning tables, pet-dishes, handles, surfboards, ski-boards, and your car or bicycle as well.

Sure Dayoo is still a manual, hand-operated cleaning tool, but what it lacks in the automated department (compared to your dishwasher), it more than makes up for by being a versatile cleaning gizmo that lets you swiftly and effectively clean/sterilize more than just your dishes. Its affordable nature means you can even own two separate Dayoo devices – one for your kitchen, and another to keep in your store-room or garage, for around-the-house cleaning.

Clean without worrying about any electrical problems.

The compact and affordable device (which begins shipping this month) is easy to install and doesn’t require any specific skilled expertise. It can attach to a variety of surfaces, from drywalls to marble, glass, ceramic tiles, concrete, and even wood using either adhesive strips or a nail-based mounting system (both of which come along with your Dayoo). Also along with the Dayoo appliance, come two nozzles, a silicon scrubbing pad, a measuring cup, and an oven mitt. Dayoo is convenient, compact, energy-efficient, budget-friendly, IPX6 water-resistant, child-safe, and ships with a 1-year warranty as well as a 7-day return period.

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A compact, countertop-friendly dishwasher is inspired by elephant bathing rituals

Elle is a compact dishwasher shaped like an elephant that’s designed to clean the dishes used during a small family meal.

Even if you’re one of the few who enjoys doing the dishes, cleaning up after a big meal can get tiring. In a perfect world, we’d take care of the dishes as soon as we’re finished using them. But following a big meal, all we want to do is cozy up on the living room couch and enjoy the consequences of our food comas.

Designer: Stalin Jr.

Alas, the dishes still pile up in the sink and we must tend to our most human of responsibilities. To help make the chore feel a bit more approachable, industrial designer Stalin Jr. conceptualized Elle, a miniature dishwasher shaped like an elephant that scales down dishwashing to its most compact size.

Inspired by the bathing rituals of elephants in the wild, Stalin Jr. designed Elle’s silhouette to resemble the shape of an elephant’s rump. Scaled-down from the size of an actual elephant’s rump to around the same size as an air dryer, Elle is compact enough to fit right on any kitchen countertop.

In conceptualizing Elle, Stalin Jr. explored the possibilities of what a dishwasher could look like in regards to its unique shape and compact size. Primarily conceived for the nuclear family, Elle is compact enough to remain out of the way when not in use and big enough to clean all of the dishes and utensils needed for an intimate family dinner in one wash.

Elle functions as the go-to appliance in between meals, when there aren’t enough dirty dishes to use the full-size dishwasher, but you still want to keep the sink free of dirty dishes. Equipped with all of the functions needed for a thorough cleaning, Elle comes with a touch-automated control panel and wall-mountable water inlet valve.

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This sustainable dish cleaning brush is infinitely reusable thanks to its replaceable bamboo bristles!

In 2018, we produced 380 million tonnes of plastic, can you imagine how much that number has grown in the last three years especially during the pandemic where we saw a steep rise in the use of plastic? NOS had created the Everloop Toothbrush which was wildly successful, so they created a family member for it – the Everloop Dish Brush. Every single plastic toothbrush ever made still exists today in some form or another, either in a landfill or the ocean. That’s a pretty scary statistic when you imagine that there are more than 7 billion people on this planet using toothbrushes that they throw out every 3-4 months on average.

We eat more times than we brush, so it is natural that we use far more dish scrubbies, dish sponges, and dish brushes which just adds to the mounting plastic waste problem. With the Everloop dish brush’s design, you can continue to maximize the functionality of your product while reducing waste. The head of the brush has a concave lid mechanism that compresses the bristles against the inner part of the brush. The bristles are snapped into place and you can clean effortlessly. This concavity also works as a soap container and dosifier while you clean your tableware – can you hear the Monica Gellers of the world scream with joy at this?

To replace bristles, use any flat piece from your kitchen as a lever to open it and replace it with a new set of bristles. The body of the brush is made from recycled plastic collected from discarded accessories and the bristles are made from natural fibers (bamboo, castor beans, etc) just like the Everloop Toothbrush. After the bristles wear out, you can dispose of them without guilt because they have ZERO plastic. The bristles are 100% compostable compared to the disposable heads in the market which just add to plastic pollution. Each dish brush comes with 5 sets of bristles and you can buy more replacements later too. Even the packaging is made out of 100% compostable thermoformed paper pulp! Could this BE any more perfect?

Designer: NOS Design

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This space-saving sink features a top-load dishwasher to create counter space in tiny kitchens!

There are two types of people in the world: those who pretend to enjoy doing the dishes and those with dishwashers. If like me, you’re the former, then there’s probably a reason you don’t already have a dishwasher and it’s safe to say that reason most likely has something to do with limited space. Blanco, a design studio oriented around finding water-based solutions for sinks, has launched Vita Neo, their take on the kitchen sink that saves space with an accompanying top-load dishwasher.

Vita Neo was designed and built to create space in the kitchen by merging the kitchen sink and dishwasher. The countertop sink features a stainless steel finish that mimics the jet-black, reflective nature of classic induction stovetops. When inactive, Vita Neo’s surface is continuous and discreet, creating more counter space when cooking or preparing the kitchen. Whenever users choose to activate the dishwasher, a sensor-operated LED display screen brightens up to reveal the different functions of Vita Neo, including vegetable and crustacean-washing along with dishwashing. Built with what appears as a soft-close lid, Vita Neo enacts the use of embedded swing hinges and cushioned, suctioned lining to open and close.

Unless you’re looking at compact, portable dishwashers, built-in dishwashers often require a substantial amount of space in the kitchen. Thinking of even the smallest of details, Blanco reduced the size of a typical dishwasher and merged it with a faucet and sink that fits on most kitchen countertops. Co-developed with German engineers and backed by over 90 years of experience in kitchen-based solutions, Blanco designed Vita Neo for today’s minimal, yet versatile kitchen.

Designer: Blanco

An LED display screen brightens up to reveal the dishwasher’s menu against its reflective, jet-black finish.

Amounting to the size of a large kitchen sink, Vita Neo is two-in-one: a kitchen sink and dishwasher.

When inactive, Vita Neo assumes an idle screen to create more kitchen counter space.

This desktop dishwasher inspired by rain is the space-saving solution modern homes need

I usually do my dishes just before bed so all I have to worry about in the morning is making my coffee. On some evenings, however, I just feel too tired before bed – doing the dishes feels more like running a marathon. I live in a studio apartment, so I know the importance of keeping a tidy space, but I don’t have room for automatic machines like dishwashers or steamers. To come up with a solution for small spaces in need of an automatic dishwasher, a team of creatives from Yifeeling Design felt inspired by the cleansing and quiet nature of gentle rain to design a micro dishwasher called Rain that’s functional for small spaces and also quiet, so it can run through the night.

Rain’s structure is inviting and bright, like a gentle sunshower, with rounded edges and smoothed-down sides for a reflective finish and refined shine. Then, Rain’s translucent front facade hides the dishes in plain sight with raindrops etched onto the dishwasher’s glass-pane door. The stainless steel interior of Rain reveals a compartment large enough to hold your bigger plates and a few smaller bowls, making it the ideal personal-sized dishwasher. Sockets for water tubing are attached to Rain’s rear and provide clean water for washing and an exit tube for dirty water. Finally, Rain’s control panel is located on the front-facing, digital interface where you can find a timer option, the power, start, and stop buttons, as well as a mode selector.

Yifeeling noticed a few problems in our existing catalog of dishwashing options. Mostly, dishwashers are too bulky and require too much space, they’re expensive and just don’t fit into smaller kitchens. In order to reduce the volume and space that dishwashers regularly occupy, Yifeeling aimed to design a desktop dishwasher that doesn’t rely on noisy mechanics to get the job of cleaning dishes done. Instead, Rain utilizes the gentle cleanse that follows a day of rain. The days after those summer rainstorms always bring with them cleaner air quality and naturally fresh aromas – those days just feel cleaner. While rain can sometimes be destructive and bring on floods or thunderstorms, it is also a natural element of our ecosystem and it always brings life to dry climates or lush forests, despite the floods and lightning. The creatives at Yifeeling Design utilized this latter aspect of rain to bring their own desktop dishwasher to life.

Designer: Yifeeling Design

Toyota’s new home-assist robots include a butler who will do the dishes for you!

Toyota’s Gantry robot is a real superhero for the elderly, but instead of fighting local crimes, he does house chores for them. Designed for the aging demographic that is often forgotten when it comes to technological advancements, this robot will take care of the domestic duties while sometimes hanging from the ceiling! People over the age of 65 make up for the world’s fastest-growing age group and we need more resources to give them the aid they require.

Speaking about the capabilities of robots, Russ Tedrake of Toyota Research Institue (TRI) says “Unlike the sterile, controlled and programmable environment of the factory, the home is a ‘wild west’ – unstructured and diverse. Despite recent strides in artificial intelligence and machine learning, it is still very hard to engineer a system that can deal with the complexity of a home environment and guarantee that it will (almost) work correctly.” The gantry robot is one of the prototypes being tested in mock-up home environments built-in labs in California. It is able to complete tasks like cleaning and loading the dishwasher. The design of the robot was inspired by the layout of Japanese homes, where researchers found that limited floor space would constrain a robot’s ability to help, and thus the solution would be to have robots directly integrated into the architecture for future homes. “What if instead of needing a robot to navigate the cluttered floor, it could travel on the ceiling instead, and be tucked out of the way when it’s not needed?” said Dan Helmick, co-lead of robotics fleet learning at the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), during a virtual presentation. While it is a huge undertaking to construct new robot-assisted homes from scratch and will have many hurdles, the design has the potential to solve many problems faced by the old folk who live alone.

The dishwashing robot is basically a giant robotic arm which shows new technology instead of being ready for commercial use, someone even pointed out that it looks better suited to build cars than load dishes but there is a long way to go before this product hits the market and there will be many changes made to it before it is ready for sale. This is a full series of robots designed to help senior citizens manage housework and the gantry robot is just one of them. There is another “soft bubble gripper” robot that uses air-filled cushions to gently grab a variety of objects, and a floor-based mobile robot with the same basic capabilities as hanging robot friend. All robots are being trained using virtual reality – real people are performing actions like wiping down a tabletop and then using VR controllers these movements are programmed into the robots.

“The robots that you see today are prototypes to accelerate our research, but they are not going to be turned into products any time soon,”  says Max Bajrachary, TRI’s VP of Robotics. Robotics is generally a difficult field and creating robots for household tasks is challenging mainly because every house is so different and therefore the smarter option would be to construct robot-friendly houses with tracks where the residents have the option of installing the gantry robot if needed. Robots can take over my world if they take over my dirty dishes!

Designer: Toyota Research Institute

This 3-in-1 dishwasher was designed to fit in your sink – a 2020 kitchen essential!

 

Safe to say that the most hated chores are either doing laundry or doing the dishes. There is something about warm, dryer sheet scented laundry that kind of makes it worth it, so doing dishes is the most annoying household task in my list. I also feel like dishwashers are so awkwardly located, you have to bend too often and that can be a problem if you have a physical disability or if you are over the age of 26 because you have spent a good amount of time slouching over your devices. To make life easier for us all, Fotile has designed a 3-in-1 dishwasher that actually fits in your sink! Yes, that is correct – your sink is now a place for dirty as well as clean dishes.

This clever design hides your dishwasher and dryer elegantly by welding it to your stainless steel sink. The dishwasher has a larget fillet that facilitates accelerated rotation of water flow to improve the efficiency of wash cycles. Another great perk of it being fitted in your sink is that it reduces the hassle of cleaning inside the appliance. It also has a flat embedded ‘lid’ which makes it easy for you to keep your countertop clean while not sacrificing surface space. Apart from killing 99.99% of bacteria from the dishes, it also doubles up as a fruit and vegetable purifier. Using ultrasonic technology and a turbulent spray, it removes 90% of pesticide residue from your produce. This dishwasher claims to have no blind spots – 360-degree cleaning and drying!

The Fotile dishwasher is perfect for any home but especially urban homes because they don’t come with appliances (trust me, I had to apartment hunt in Manhattan which meant I chose dishwasher over having a living room), even more so when they are traditional bulky washers. Not just small apartments, but any home could benefit from space optimization with this in-sink dishwasher. It is also uses resources more efficiently and cuts the time + energy taken by existing dishwashers into half! Clean, convenient, and (very) cool.

Designer: Fotile

This toaster-inspired space-saving dishwasher pops out clean dishes in a jiffy

The Dishwasher. The must-have kitchen appliance for the time-conscious and lazy home-occupiers alike. However, justifying the loss of valuable space and the increase in water-bill that comes with them is sometimes a little tricky… especially when you live in a place that is on the smaller side! This was the motive that led to the creation of Toasher, the portable dishwasher for limited living spaces.

Toasher utilizes a method of interaction that has been lifted from another kitchen appliance, the toaster. The dirty items are lowered into the stainless steel tank, where an ultrasonic transducer agitates the dirt and separates it from the dishes. Add-ons elevate Toasher’s functionality even further; with the modular peg-board that can be attached to the rear of the unit, to expanding the amount of storage that it can hold and allowing it to be used as an item of furniture as well as just a kitchen appliance!

Designer: Lin Shuo De