[halomru]

Today's washing machines already have timers to start in X hours (at least mine has, and it's not exactly top of the line). Once consumer electricity prices reflect the actual electricity price at that moment new models would quickly contain internet-connected logic to start the washing cycle at the point in the next 24h with the lowest predicted electricity price.

If you integrate washing machine and dryer into one mashine, the cost-savings from electricity would be even bigger with very little convenience lost.

[thatwebdude]

Absolutely, although I don't know how they handle wrinkles, though without an auto-fold/hang feature (that'd be so cool!).

[mhandley]

Our drier tumbles the dry clothes for a second or two every five minutes or so for hours after the dry cycle has finished. This goes a long way to avoiding the clothes getting too wrinkled waiting for us to unload it.

[thatwebdude]

...my dryer simply doesn't go long enough to keep them wrinkle-free.