Women in the developing world often spend hours each day collecting water with which to hand wash clothes. A pair of design students have come up with a pedal-powered washer designed to ease the burden. The GiraDora washer is a simple, self-contained washer-dryer that speeds up the washing process, saving users precious time and energy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Next Animation Studio’s News Direct service provides daily, high-quality, informative 3D news animations that fill in for missing footage and help viewers understand breaking news stories or in-depth features on science, technology, and health. Sign up for a free trial of News Direct's news animations at http://newsdirect.nextanimationstudio.com/trial/ To subscribe to News Direct or for more info, please visit: http://newsdirect.nextanimationstudio.com