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This $30 Breathing Mobile Washer is essentially a plunger with a strainer-like insert to allow water to pass through it.
Designed to allow one to wash clothes in a five-gallon bucket where there's no electricity, it's a human-powered agitator.
As for why it's got "Breathing" in its name, it's "because of the sound it makes as its unique action effectively pushes and pulls soap and water through your clothes," writes retailer Lehman's.
I was surprised to read, in the reviews on Amazon, that several customers aren't disaster preppers at all--but apartment dwellers who use this as their default laundry method because they don't want to use the building's shared facility.
I guess the shaft is designed to break down for camping or RV use, but I'd like to see a more robust version of this; the three-piece shaft looks pretty breakable to me.
I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.
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Human-Powered Laundry Object: The Breathing Mobile Washer
Somebody finally invented an inferior washboard for people to tweet about.
I think using your hand to wash the clothes would have the same exact affect... I don't see how a mesh screen "sucks air through your clothes" any faster than gravity would....
Basically, this allows you to use more of your muscles- in both arms, in your back and legs - compared to just using one arm to agitate the wash tub contents.