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[+] so simple, so amazing it hasn't been done yet. They had swipe cards at the laundromat I went to when I lived in Alaska - - it would probably be quite simple to incorporate that same payment system into wired terminals. Welcome to the HalfBakery, [PureRush]. |
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Here's the caption from your link, [simonj]. // Start your laundry in the storefront on the left, then step next door to check your e-mail.// Two seperate stores. His idea was a co-located service provider. CROISSANT HIM UP! |
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someone make a Surf washing powder versus surfing the web joke, quick! |
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Brain Wash cafe and laundromat in San Francisco. They have internet kiosks mixed in with the washing machines and arcade games. |
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World Wide Wash in Melbourne is a combo laundromat, internet cafe and coffee house. |
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Spic & Span Internet Cafe & Laundromat in Toronto and the Village Laundry and Internet Cafe in Kelowna. |
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//His idea was a co-located service provider.//
So would an internet cafe and a rental car agency in the same building be another new idea? What about an internet cafe and a hardware store? An internet cafe is already a combination of a cafe with an internet access point. This just combines some other "place where people tend to go" with an internet access point. Not much of an idea. |
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But this is a laundromat is a place where people tend to go, and tend to sit, and tend to have nothing to do. A car rental place is not that, and a hardware store is not that. His idea isn't earthshatteringly new like, oh, I don't know, putting a handbag in another bag so it looks like another bag . . . O.o |
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It still deserves consideration and, as above, it already exists in certain places. Certainly baked but I wouldn't say widely known to exist. Feel free to disagree :-) |
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[bristolz] I'm typing this from world wide wash now :)
[contracts] widely known to melbournians, but maybe not to the rest of the world <witholds fish> |
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In the Pacific Northwest, of the USA
there are tons of these. Especially near
University campuses. |
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The laundry machine IS the computer. The round window is the screen. You can play games, surf the net, etc. AND there is one application which simulates a window (via web cam) through which you can watch your clothes spinning around. (This would be the default or screen-saver application). |
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Baked in NZ couple of places as far as I know like in Thames and Te Anau. Good idea anyway. |
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As the founder of a nonprofit I am actually thinking of buying a laundromat to bring in income for us. It does not solve the sitting and doing nothing problem, but I am thinking we could pursue the internet idea or other ideas and have a place where people can do their laundry, utilize their time and help sustain a good cause. |
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Baked here in the U.S. where there exists a night club/laundromat.... but still a good idea! gfundl |
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Internet cafés seem to be obsolete now, but laundromats
aren't yet. Progress… |
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