Heavy soiling has a new foe: Samsung has unveiled a smartphone-controlled super-launderer costing 1,700 quid.
The new Samsung WW9000 washing machine does away with fiddly buttons and time-consuming dials, opting instead for a full-colour 5 inch LED touchscreen that provides instant control over every setting of your 10kg capacity beast, letting you pull down extra wash options and swipe through to your favourite wash cycle, be it "dark", "cotton" or "hurry up, this is my only pair of pants".
Okay, we made the last one up, but the array of included cycles, which automatically optimise your wash based on activity, are impressive indeed. Programmes include a 'Gardening' cycle to shift grass stains while 'Cooking & Dining' deals with messy eaters. No, we have no idea how they differ from each other, given that they all involve sloshing laundry around in a drum full of hot water. Just go with it.
More impressively, the WW9000 abolishes the antiquated notion of a detergent drawer, instead holding up to a month's worth of soap directly within the drum that it smartly dispenses according to the load.No more agonising over just how much detergent to include or trying to decipher the mystifying chart on the back of a Persil box; your machine will make the choice for you.
