Internet laundry, a concept being offered by LaundryView, is looking to revolutionize the way that people - or at least students - do laundry. They wire up the clothes washers and dryers on campus, and then students can check on their status over the web! Talk about airing your dirty laundry in public!

I wonder if the machines have an IP address?

Here’s what LaundryView has to say about it:

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Today’s college students are among the most connected people on earth. Their WiFi-networked laptop computers, cell phones, and PDAs keep them in constant contact with each other and the world around them. However, there has been at least one place they could not connect with until recently-the campus laundry room. Mac-Gray Corporation, the second largest supplier of card and coin- operated laundry facilities management in the United States and the largest supplier to colleges and universities in North America, has developed an Internet-based system called LaundryView(TM). LaundryView provides a way for college students to communicate with washers and dryers in campus laundry rooms. Typical student reactions to the system frequently include the word “awesome.” The LaundryView eMonitoring system is a huge time saver for busy college students who can’t afford to wait in the laundry room for machines to become available. Now they can check online from anyplace on campus.

How LaundryView works…

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