Pop Up Hampers number among the most popular of all Laundry Hampers because they can be some of the most useful ones anywhere. After all, who hasn't needed that extra pair of arms when handling loads of laundry? With pop up hampers, all you usually have to do is step on a lever that will pop the hamper lid open for you, allowing you to easily dump everything in one action. With ordinary laundry hampers, it will likely take you longer to offload all that you have.

Laundry hampers come in a great range of shapes and sizes, but pop up hampers tend to look fairly alike, perhaps owing to their similar operation. After all, there are only so many ways to devise the mechanism causing the pop-up action, and these hampers are very simple objects, in the final analysis. Thus there's no great public demand for much ingenuity or variety. Indeed, the overall category of laundry hampers seems to exhibit rather poor variation, with a handful of basic shapes and sizes - that's all. But this situation is unlikely to improve if people don't take their style of laundering more seriously!

Which is an admittedly funny (even crazy) thought, but hey, why not; think about it: everything else has been made into an objet d'art - why not ye olde humble laundry hamper? Yes, just picture it, designer laundry hampers! Luxury pop up hampers! Premium upscale high laundering - haute blanchisserie!

No, seriously, it would be the final frontier in fashionable furniture design. After all, golden toilets with precious gems and fine glass exist, so why not something to match in the form of a rich and decadent clothes hamper. After all, don't the wealthy need some place for their dirty laundry? Oh, but of course; they use foreign banks for laundering. ;-)

It's about time for a laundry hamper makeover! Or, to adopt the terminology of our age of advanced technology, an upgrade is in order for the old-fashioned hamper. Given all the talking toilets with on-board computer chips and built-in electronic sensors, why not something similar for our humble hampers?

Okay, so this is not Japan, where wacky gadgets and gizmos form a big part of the culture. And the rich don't care about designer hampers because they don't actually have to do any laundry. But it's a great way for some ambitious young designer just out of art school to make his or her name. After all, who'd have ever thought that repeating Campbell Soup cans on a canvas could be considered art?