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Some internet commenters have suggested that there is something rather obscene in the robot's sock-inverting motions. We advise you to ignore them and their depraved minds.
Good thing this is a classy blog. No sex, violence, or obscenity here.
Posted by: wiredog | August 27, 2010 at 09:18 AM
If this were a Steven Wright robot, it would pair the socks by thickness.
Posted by: Cheesewiz | August 27, 2010 at 09:43 AM
Hah!
Posted by: Siouxie | August 27, 2010 at 10:15 AM
The ability to match 2 socks doesn't impress me. Try it on a week's worth of your son's athletic socks: 53 individual socks, all white, with 42 different numbers and arrangements of wide and narrow red stripes at the top.
(Fortunately, said son is now 42, with a wife who assumes he'll do his own laundry.)
Posted by: Betsy | August 27, 2010 at 10:21 AM
Thank God we now have something to help us with this exhausting task.
Posted by: Suzie Q. Wacvet | August 27, 2010 at 10:24 AM
Not only that, Betsy. Wait till the robot tries to wash and DRY those socks and THEN see if he can pair them again!
Posted by: Siouxie | August 27, 2010 at 10:24 AM
Maybe they can teach one to interrogate the washing machine to find out what happened to the missing sock.
Until then, when they teach one to fold a fitted sheet, let me know.
Posted by: Horace LaBadie | August 27, 2010 at 10:44 AM
Wang loves getting his dowel polished.
Posted by: bonmot | August 27, 2010 at 10:50 AM
As a person who has always done the laundry and paired the socks I'm amazed there haven't been any "now if we could only teach guys to do this" comments.
I commend the female bloglits.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | August 27, 2010 at 10:57 AM
Jeff, I assumed that all guys knew how to do what was on that video.
Posted by: NotSherly | August 27, 2010 at 11:01 AM
Jeff: I thought the same thing. I was the sole laundry-doer in our house for a number of years, so I greatly appreciate the value of this technology (and the hard work of those whose job it is to sort those 53 individual socks, Betsy!)
Posted by: Scott | August 27, 2010 at 11:02 AM
*snork* @ Jeff 'The Sockificator' Meyerson
Posted by: trustf8 | August 27, 2010 at 11:13 AM
Pounding Socks WBAGNFARB.
Posted by: Alyzabeth | August 27, 2010 at 11:19 AM
Been there, done that for years. Now Mr. Coconuts and I don't wear socks anymore. Flip flops are the footwear of choice. *hops back on.......
Posted by: Coconuts | August 27, 2010 at 11:41 AM
Matching socks is easy. The colors with bleach spots are mates.
Posted by: Horace LaBadie | August 27, 2010 at 12:15 PM
I'd like to see a robot actually do the laundry from start to finish.
Posted by: Schadeboy | August 27, 2010 at 12:37 PM
The best theory is that socks are larval coat hangers, which explains why you have missing socks and too many hangers in the closet. Once robots start matching socks, the household ecology will be upset.
Posted by: Ralph | August 27, 2010 at 02:51 PM
When I used to sell fine men's clothing, including luxuries like cashmere socks, I would encourage customers to "Buy two pairs. That way, when you lose one, you still have a pair."
It worked, occasionally.
Posted by: bonmot | August 27, 2010 at 05:56 PM
Just buy black and throw them all in the drawer.
Posted by: Loudmouth | August 28, 2010 at 08:47 AM