Waiting an hour for your clothes to dry can feel tedious. But scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have developed a dryer that could make doing laundry much quicker. Called the ...

Clothes dryers are great, and a key part of modern life, but they do use a lot of energy. [Mike Rigsby] decided to see if there was a more efficient method of drying clothes that could compete with ...

PHILADELPHIA (CNN) --The clothes dryer is a staple in the majority of American households, but the heat-it-up-and-tumble method is sorely inefficient and extremely expensive. A new ultrasonic dryer ...

Last year, scientists at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) revealed they were working on ultrasonic clothes drying technology in partnership with GE Appliances. At the ...

Current dryer technology has been around for ages, and drying machines use heat as a means of removing all the excess water from your clothes after a run in the washer. While it is an effective way to ...

NEW YORK — The clothes dryer is a staple in the majority of American households, but the heat-it-up-and-tumble method is sorely inefficient and extremely expensive. A new ultrasonic dryer concept ...

A typical clothes dryer works the same way dryers have worked for decades–blowing hot air in an energy-sucking process that costs Americans $9 billion a year. A new prototype uses sound waves instead, ...