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5 dumbest green gadgets: Samsung Silvercare washing machine



The Silvercare cleans and sterilizes (?) your delicates with microscopic particles of silver, thereby eliminating the need for detergent and keeping soapy water out of your local reservoir. The flip side of this miracle of modern science is that the possible side-effects of nanosilver in the wild are really unknown, and in fact this is the first washing machine to be regulated as a pesticide by the EPA. Throw in the environmental impact of silver mining, and this sleek sexy beast of a washing machine starts to look a lot less green.

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