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The Weekly Inventions of
Dr Splatterjacket

A washing machine is sitting in the middle of a row of cupboards. It has lots of interesting looking buttons at the top of the front. Inside the washing machine, which you can see because the door is made of glass, you can see a washing line with some items hanging from it.

DryWash

3rd January 2026

Just after Zargoid 5 had left the mine… having been banished by me… I received a notification on my phone from my bank. The $1 Billion that Zargoid 5 had deposited into my account had just been withdrawn again.

This was obviously a major problem for my drilling plans.

I had wondered if, after a year of inventions, I would be able to simply stop. It was now clear that I would have to keep inventing, if my mine was going to continue at all. And I’d need to get selling, if I wanted to beat Zargoid 5 in the race to the centre of the earth.

Having drilled down to rescue him in my lab coat, I needed to get it washed… and more importantly dried… as quickly as possible so I could continue inventing.

Of course, I could use my WashCharge, but that would only wash the lab coat. And there is nothing to charge in my lab coat (as my lab coat has its own source of energy, obviously), using it would be as pointless as using a normal washing machine. Urgh.

Now, you might think that a washer dryer already exists, but only a fool uses those. I mean sure the washing part is ok, but the drying? Give me a break.

That’s why I use DryWash.

It washes the clothes and then, unlike a washer dryer, which tumbles your clothes dry in ridiculous heat, the DryWash gently pegs your clothes onto its inbuilt washing line, letting them dry properly.

Now admittedly, the capacity of a DryWash is somewhat less than your conventional washer dryer, and for longer items like my lab coat the bottom half of the clothing can remain a little damp, but who would want tumble dry clothes when you could have line dried clothes?

The clothes are gently dried by a breeze provided from refillable desert air canisters which you get delivered on a subscription basis… ideal.

So get your DryWash today, your clothes will seem fresher, and more sandy, almost immediately.

Note to self: Consider changing the subscription air to warmed Antarctic air. Less sand more penguins, and it won’t remind me of Zargoid 5’s mine as much.

Note to self: Consider changing the subscription air to warmed Antarctic air. Less sand more penguins, and it won’t remind me of Zargoid 5’s mine as much.