In Wave Touch, the controls seem to disappear when the appliance is unused; they appear (with a beep) when you touch the control panel glass. IQ Touch visibly displays all controls all the time. Two guesses: its as if Wave Touch uses black glass, and IQ Touch uses clear glass; perhaps IQ Touch came out first. So -- unless there are reliability issues between these displays that I haven't heard about -- its a matter of preference. How you want this fridge to appear in your kitchen most of the time? I have (and like) Wave Touch on my E'lux range, but some prefer always visible controls (at least, considering the cost).

I bought the IQ touch, I wasn't willing to spend the extra $ just to make the display disappear. I think you get all the racks being the easy slide as well, but you can replace the other two in the IQ, I didn't bother, I don't really like the easy slide, I find it slides too easily when you're trying to get something out. The IQ comes with a warming drawer which I like, I had a warming oven in my last stove & used it quite a bit. I've had this oven for about 6 months, nothing I don't like at this point (other than the rack being mildly annoying at times).

I think the likelihood is (putting on my very cloudy wizard's forecasting hat) is that there will be minimal Social Security benefits with greatly extended retirement ages put in. Currently retirement ages range from 65 to 68(?), depending upon when you were born. With life expectancies rising so quickly - the fastest growing group of people is the 80+ age group - retirement ages will start at age 70, at a minimum. You have to keep this in perspective. When people first started collecting Social Security, the average life expectancy past age 65 was a mere 7 years. The system was not designed to pay out for four decades because no one expected such an improvement in mortality over such a short period of time. Nowadays, if a couple retires at 65 in good health, the age of the SECOND person to die is an average 92 years. And that age is still lengthening over time as mortality stats continue to be collected. This is one of the reasons financial planners almost as a group unanimously went from recommending 5+% drawdowns from a retirement portfolio, to a more modest 3-4% annual draw. Otherwise, the assets won't last 30+ years. The Medicare system is in much worse shape. Bush's drug benefit may have been a political plus but it has proven costly and difficult to manage. The US spends twice as much money per capita on its healthsystem yet our mortality is very poor compared to its peers (see the NY Times July 17, 2008 article titled "U.S. Spends on Healthcare but Study Faults Quality" - the US ranks dead last in preventable mortality!). There are good and bad sides to nationalized medicine, but either way, there is not enough tax money to support both an increasingly unworkable healthcare and retirement system without some painful changes.

Yes, I owned both IQ and Wave Touch washer and not the dryer. The washer does well with large load but when it comes down to KING SIZE comforters it takes forever to get the whole thing wet. One queen size comforter should not have this problem as like the king since the bedding is much smaller in size. So this is not a problem if all your bedding is Queen sized. I do add water only for my KING SIZE comforter through the dispenser. Just enough for it to get completely wet and no more. Rinsing is fine after adding extra water for the wash cycle only. You can wash small loads without a problem as long as you have all items weighing the same so that when it goes into spin, the balancing act does not take forever. The Quick Cycle is a 5 minuet normal wash and one rinse. Consider this as an freshen up cycle. It says it can be done in 18 minuets only if the load is balanced during the spin cycle, in reality it is 25 minuets. If you are washing coats, to increase washing action, place two dryer balls with the load. I've just done my best friend coat with feathers and it done a great job around the cuffs and neck area without pre-treating. As for the door, both worked flawless. The machine needs to level and squared to prevent door from sticking. I don't own the dryer, I can not see how poly fabrics would burn in this dryer because of the design. If you look inside the dryer, it's an opposite tilt than the washer and the lint filter and sensor is toward the front, the suction would keep anything from sticking to the rear where the heating is coming from unless the user was doing a full load of poly blend on high heat. In today's world, appliances are hit and miss. Not one machine is going to perfect and everyone of them will have flaws that we consumers has to deal with. I know we want the best that our dollars can buy, but it's more about conveniences that should take the main step in our lives than the best what MFG are putting out. I have the best of both world, a top loader and a front loader and right now the front loader wins over the other. If anything were to happen to my daily driver then my backup is ready for use! Good luck on your decision!