When two design students from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California visited a village outside of Lima, Peru, they realized they would put their skills to use on improving the lives ...

Yirego‘s Drumi is a brilliant electricity-free washing machine powered by your feet – and it’s set to launch this summer. The device uses six to 12 liters of water per load, and can wash almost five ...

Update: The Drumi is finally in production as of late September, but without an exact ship date. Yirego, the company behind the electricity-free device, told us in late October that engineers are ...

A young mother in Philippi sits nursing her baby while operating a foot-cranked washing machine. Across the city, a student in digs is studying for a test while pedalling away to get his week’s ...