Whatever happened to smart washing machines?

I stumbled upon this TechCrunch article, titled "Your washing machine should be smarter about washing clothes than you are " (http://ift.tt/2ckdT7C).

It presents a prototype showed off by Hoover Europe at IFA this week, which "offers some potentially compelling steps toward a day when our washing machines will work with us more than they do against us."

This article got me thinking, and I would appreciate your input on this - how come in 2016, the whole area of washing machines is still so under-developed?

Submitted September 06, 2016 at 10:34AM by DanielleHarrison1 http://ift.tt/2cCI0vN via TikTokTikk