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The Latest High-Tech Dishwashers

Cleaning up after dinner is a chore no more thanks to smart dishwashers.

By John Elliot
Wed, Aug 11, 2021 2:14pmGrey Clock 3 min

Nothing can spoil a delicious dinner like a stack of dirty dishes.

Fortunately for you, that scenario can be a thing of the past thanks to the latest in dishwasher technology.

Wi-Fi-connected, self-diagnosing, auto-air-drying, schedulable and more—today’s smart dishwashers are marvels of cleanliness and convenience.

Here are a few of our favourite clever cleansing contraptions.

LG STUDIO Smart Dishwasher

LG

Equipped with LG’s QuadWash technology—four multi-motion spray arms that provide power-cleaning sprays—the STUDIO Smart Dishwasher is a machine that you won’t have to worry about. The Wi-Fi-equipped washer is constantly self-monitoring, sending maintenance tips and usage reports to users via LG’s accompanying ThinQ app, allowing owners to keep their dishwasher running at optimal capacity. The STUDIO Smart will even send alerts for potential problems before issues arise, enabling users to proactively tackle and avoid evenings of handwashing while awaiting a handyman.

The LG STUDIO Smart Dishwasher is available for $1429

Miele G-7000

Miele

If time travellers had sent a dishwasher back to the past, it might be the Miele G-7000. This futuristic feat of German engineering offers users an innovative AutoDos system, which determines how dirty your dishes are and dispenses the perfect amount of detergent to achieve excellently clean dishes without excess cleaner. But that’s just the start of the G-7000’s intelligence. With the Miele@mobile app, G-7000 owners can auto-start their dishwasher from anywhere in the world from their phone (or via voice control with Amazon Alexa), or schedule washings so they’ll have clean dishes precisely when they need them. The G-7000 will also send an alert to owners when they are running low on detergent so they never find themselves cleaned out of cleaner.

The Miele G-7000 is available from $2049 depending on features.

Bosch Benchmark Dishwasher

Bosch

Tired of washing your dishes before you wash your dishes? Invest in the Benchmark Dishwasher from Bosch. Equipped with smart sensors that continually monitor the washing process and the cleanliness of dishware—and determine what still needs to get done—the Bosch ensures that you don’t need to rinse your dishes before you put them in the machine. Bosch’s Home Connect app will send user’s notifications when the cycle is done—but if owner’s prefer a more visual cue, the device’s InfoLight—a red dot the machine projects on the ground while it’s running—will do. The Home Connect app will also give users a heads up if a leak has occurred or if they are running low on detergent. And if you think all that technology means industrial sounds coming from your kitchen—think again.

The Bosch Benchmark is available for approx. $2500

Thermador Sapphire

Thermador

The Sapphire line of dishwashers from Thermador marries brains with beauty. Wi-Fi-equipped—and custom-panel ready so it can match your existing home decor—the Sapphire allows users to remotely control their dishwasher, run diagnostics on its health and receive notifications for cycle completion and more. And the Sapphire’s StarDry system leverages ZeoLite to ensure that every dish, regardless of material, is dry as a bone the moment the cycle is complete, negating the need for additional hand drying. All of this, and the Sapphire’s interior glows a lovely—you guessed it—sapphire when the dishwasher is open.

The Thermador Sapphire is available for around $3130



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The Longevity Vacation: Poolside Lounging With an IV Drip

The latest trend in wellness travel is somewhere between a spa trip and a doctor’s appointment

By ALEX JANIN
Tue, Apr 16, 2024 4 min

For some vacationers, the ideal getaway involves $1,200 ozone therapy or an $1,800 early-detection cancer test.

Call it the longevity vacation. People who are fixated on optimising their personal health are pursuing travel activities that they hope will help them stay healthier for longer. It is part of a broader interest in longevity that often extends beyond traditional medicine . These costly trips and treatments are rising in popularity as money pours into the global wellness travel market.

At high-end resorts, guests can now find biological age testing, poolside vitamin IV drips, and stem-cell therapy. Prices can range from hundreds of dollars for shots and drips to tens of thousands for more invasive procedures, which go well beyond standard wellness offerings like yoga, massages or facials.

Some longevity-inspired trips focus on treatments, while others focus more on social and lifestyle changes. This includes programs that promise to teach travellers the secrets of centenarians .

Mark Blaskovich, 66 years old, spent $4,500 on a five-night trip last year centred on lessons from the world’s “Blue Zones,” places including Sardinia, Italy, and Okinawa, Japan, where a high number of people live for at least 100 years. Blaskovich says he wanted to get on a healthier path as he started to feel the effects of ageing.

He chose a retreat at Modern Elder Academy in Mexico, where he attended workshops detailing the power of supportive relationships, embracing a plant-based diet and incorporating natural movement into his daily life.

“I’ve been interested in longevity and trying to figure out how to live longer and live healthier,” says Blaskovich.

Vitamins and ozone

When Christy Menzies noticed nurses behind a curtained-off area at the Four Seasons Resort Maui in Hawaii on a family vacation in 2022, she assumed it might be Covid-19 testing. They were actually injecting guests with vitamin B12.

Menzies, 40, who runs a travel agency, escaped to the longevity clinic between trips to the beach, pool and kids’ club, where she reclined in a leather chair, and received a 30-minute vitamin IV infusion.

“You’re making investments in your wellness, your health, your body,” says Menzies, who adds that she felt more energised afterward.

The resort has been expanding its offerings since opening a longevity centre in 2021. A multi-day treatment package including ozone therapy, stem-cell therapy and a “fountain of youth” infusion, costs $44,000. Roughly half a dozen guests have shelled out for that package since it made its debut last year, according to Pat Makozak, the resort’s senior spa director. Guests can also opt for an early-detection cancer blood test for $1,800.

The ozone therapy, which involves withdrawing blood, dissolving ozone gas into it, and reintroducing it into the body through an IV, is particularly popular, says Makozak. The procedure is typically administered by a registered nurse, takes upward of an hour and costs $1,200.

Longevity vacationers are helping to fuel the global wellness tourism market, which is expected to surpass $1 trillion in 2024, up from $439 billion in 2012, according to the nonprofit Global Wellness Institute. About 13% of U.S. travellers took part in spa or wellness activities while traveling in the past 12 months, according to a 2023 survey from market-research group Phocuswright.

Canyon Ranch, which has multiple wellness resorts across the country, earlier this year introduced a five-night “Longevity Life” program, starting at $6,750, that includes health-span coaching, bone-density scans and longevity-focused sessions on spirituality and nutrition.

The idea is that people will return for an evaluation regularly to monitor progress, says Mark Kovacs, the vice president of health and performance.

What doctors say

Doctors preach caution, noting many of these treatments are unlikely to have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, producing a placebo effect at best and carrying the potential for harm at worst. Procedures that involve puncturing the skin, such as ozone therapy or an IV drip, risk possible infection, contamination and drug interactions.

“Right now there isn’t a single proven treatment that would prolong the life of someone who’s already healthy,” says Dr. Mark Loafman, a family-medicine doctor in Chicago. “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”

Some studies on certain noninvasive wellness treatments, like saunas or cold plunges do suggest they may help people feel less stressed, or provide some temporary pain relief or sleep improvement.

Linda True, a policy analyst in San Francisco, spent a day at RAKxa, a wellness retreat on a visit to family in Thailand in February. True, 46, declined the more medical-sounding offerings, like an IV drip, and opted for a traditional style of Thai massage that involved fire and is touted as a “detoxification therapy.”

“People want to spend money on things that they feel might be doing good,” says Dr. Tamsin Lewis, medical adviser at RoseBar Longevity at Six Senses Ibiza, a longevity club that opened last year, whose menu includes offerings such as cryotherapy, infrared sauna and a “Longevity Boost” IV.

RoseBar says there is good evidence that reducing stress contributes to longevity, and Lewis says she doesn’t offer false promises about treatments’ efficacy . Kovacs says Canyon Ranch uses the latest science and personal data to help make evidence-based recommendations.

Jaclyn Sienna India owns a membership-based, ultra luxury travel company that serves people whose net worth exceeds $100 million, many of whom give priority to longevity, she says. She has planned trips for clients to Blue Zones, where there are a large number of centenarians. On one in February, her company arranged a $250,000 weeklong stay for a family of three to Okinawa that included daily meditation, therapeutic massages and cooking classes, she says.

India says keeping up with a longevity-focused lifestyle requires more than one treatment and is cost-prohibitive for most people.

Doctors say travellers may be more likely to glean health benefits from focusing on a common vacation goal : just relaxing.

Dr. Karen Studer, a physician and assistant professor of preventive medicine at Loma Linda University Health says lowering your stress levels is linked to myriad short- and long-term health benefits.

“It may be what you’re getting from these expensive treatments is just a natural effect of going on vacation, decreasing stress, eating better and exercising more.”

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