F-ing awesome--when I have a backyard, I will do my laundry this way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl1Hqc1MGJk
But for now, I'm hoping this weekend to fashion a bucket+plunger system.
One of the reasons I took up bicycle fixing was with the eventual goal of hooking up all sorts of weird things (blender?) to the bicycle.
You can easily power a laptop with pedal power.
Welding/frame-work is what's holding me back.
@ Steve Oops, I mean there's my accounting of the bucket/plunger system--haven't taken a picture yet; it's rather unglamorous and self-explanatory though...