The way that The Ultimate Hamper works is that rather than having an optical viewing camera to determine what pile the clothing goes in, each article gets an RFID chip that tells The Ultimate Hamper what pile it goes in. The Ultimate Hamper has a claw that is attached to a motherboard that controls the claw and reads the RFID chip. Each Ultimate Hamper comes with a free 100 RFID chips and additional RFID chips can be bought pre programmed with which pile it belongs it. For example, we sell packages of 100 colored clothing chips. All you do is stick these RFID chips on your colored clothes and The Ultimate Hamper will read the chip and know that the clothing belongs in the colored pile.
The RFID chips in the Ultimate Hamper simplify the sorting process. It allows there to be a tinier motherboard and a less bulky item. The claws drop each item into a different bag, so size is still an issue. The size used by the Ultimate Hamper though is adjustable based on how many bags are set up and programmed into the motherboard. Less bags equals less space taken up. More bags equals more space but more sorting of the laundry.
Great idea Jake, because like most guys, I hate doing laundry. I was at first confused with how the device sorted the clothes, but I think using RFID is a really good way to do it, although it could get a bit expensive/annoying to put RFID chips on all of your clothing, however I think in the end it is worth it.
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