No joke, the world of laundry will change by 2019

What if laundry was as simple as dumping a basket of dirty clothes into one machine? This machine would wash, dry, fold, and sort all your family's clothes. We're closer to this paradise than you might think. At CES, Tokyo-based Seven Dreamers Laboratories demonstrated its Laundroid, a fridge-sized machine segmented into multiple compartments. In the bottom one, a presenter dumped a dozen red and blue shirts, closed the drawer, and waited.