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- antron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+54But what are the 3 sea shells for?
- melic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15"will cost around $1027"
I don't think we'll be seeing these at many Texaco stations. - GiJoeBob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+151. Push button.
2. Put hands in windshield wiper air stream.
3. Wipe hands on pants. - emorphien, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12no, I'm with you. Bathroom doors should not have door handles on the inside.
- HP844182, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Thank god! Finally an air dryer that actually has some air to it. This might actually move the water on your hand rather than just making a lot of noise.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"James Dyson, billionaire inventor of expensive vacuum cleaners"
That's a headstone quote if I've ever seen one. - thundercleese, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Just what I was thinking...Drys hands in ten seconds and deafens in four
- Cytranic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I like the compartment to trap all the sheered off skin...
- emorphien, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7We have some high powered ones on campus, but not that powerful. They're deafening. Does this come with complimentary earplugs?"
- robinw77, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10What, you want to stay in there forever?
- chatwithaninja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"This might be a great device for those of us who really don't want to touch anything in a public bathroom, and don't much like standing around for 30 seconds at a noisy hot air blower waiting for the hands to dry. – Charlie White"
touch nothing except the door handle of the restroom... right after the guy who didn't wash his hands touched it...
I swear I'm turning into Adrian Monk... - Topher06, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I just love the commercial for Dyson Vacuum cleaners.
Voice Over
"One day I was cleaning my house and realized that this vacuum cleaner didn't suck enough. So I proceeded to create a vacuum cleaner that sucks all the time."
And it sucks money out of your wallet because my carpets don't need to be $700 vacuum cleaner clean, if you know what I mean.
Now he wants to create a product that blows.
Freud would say "This guy has issues." - monkeywizard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You must have a defective model. While they are f'n expensive (my g/f yelled at me for spending $500 on a vacuum), they're brilliant.
Not to sound like some random plug, but I got one and the thing cleans better than any other vacuum I've used. I tested it by going over my whole house with a normal vacuum TWICE. Went over it with the Dyson and pulled up literally pounds of random junk that I never thought to exist.
Most just clean the surface of the rug, I guess this actually sucks up everything at a deeper level as well.
You also see more of an immediate effect with pets and heavy traffic (kids), which I don't have either of. Works WONDERS for people with allergies, too. - backdoc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I first read it as "hair dryer". I was thinking, "Wow! Why would you need that?"
- Spizzat2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+81. Push Butt .
2. Put hands in d iper st eam.
3. Wipe on ants.
Because it always happens on the regular air dryers. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4James Dyson is not an inventor, He is a marketing guru.
- PUBAND, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If you put a Dyson blower up to a Dyson vacuum, and hook the vacuum output to the blower inlet, think about the the little air molecules flying at near-hypersonic speed...
If you could turbocharge the sweeper, and supercharge the blower, could the internal airspeed exceed the speed of sound? Then you wouldn't even hear it running until after you leave the bathroom. Of course there's that sonic boom thing.
"When blower stops, wipe hands on pants" - 955701, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3bring your own towel.
- PalaDigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I use these all the time in Japan. I've used them in Tokyo, but I've also used them in crazy rural areas - for instance, northern Hokkaido and the middle of the Shimanami Kaido (over the Seto Naikai) have them too. This product isn't new.... I don't get it. (What sucks for Dyson is that Japanese copyright laws are wacked out, and reverse engineering and umbrella patent applications frequently undercut the original owners....then again, Japan is one small country. And.....it's already stocked with these dryers. So I guess he doesn't care.)
- jrbrewin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3you should try the hand dryers at luton airport, england... man, those dryers are the best ever i've seen. from wet to dry in under 10 seconds also; they aren't dyson.
- whisperedlie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3the hand dryers at the theater up the street pump out a rediculous volume of air at unecessarily high speeds. they require ear protection and all loose articles of clothing to be secured when using them. the bonus is that when you rub your hands together (as we've become used to doing with the old school hand dryers), your wet hands form cavities that let out really loud fart noises. in fact, my buddies and i make a contest out of it.
- wjadams, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Wow, Dyson has changed from suck...to blow.
- briman4031, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Amazing!!!! Dry hands and wet shoes in 10 seconds!
- keenstar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i can dry my dog with this :)
- intangible, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2All bathroom doors should swing outwards, be automatic opening, or just use the open S turn entrance.
- Sarki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes, this is nothing new. Well, maybe the 400MPH is new, but super hi-speed are not new. They work really well.
- B0jangles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+283% less energy. If this is anything like his DC vaccuum cleaner range then it has to be good.
- HatchedEggs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have to admit... I really hate the hand dryers that are so high velocity that they hurt my ears. The other day I was in a rest room and it sounded like a turbine was spinning up. Just give me some recycled paper... I'll take that any day over having a hurricane run through the restroom.
So... great idea Dyson. If it is really loud though I could care less how efficient it is. - Cerebral, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Bing!
John Spartin you are fined 3 credits... - justice7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2paper towels can do it in under 3 seconds!
- polarice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The identical dryer has already been invented by Mitsubishi Electric
http://global.mitsubishielectric.com/bu/handdryer/index_b.html - emorphien, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Those are the ones we have. They work reasonably well but they are loud.
- JohntB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13. Insert very good oil and water filter into air line.
- jonj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The XLerator hand dryer is a similar concept... except they are already installed at bars, etc all over the country
http://www.exceldryer.com/Products/xlerator.asp - lazlonger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1me too.
- Qoogirl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not those "public paper towels" that just rotate, right?! That is something that appears in my nightmares!
- macdermott, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'm sure I used something similar in Tokyo
- TheDrunkMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It says in a different article (the one this one links to) that the machine collects excess water and mists it into the air.
- fearfulsymmetry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's what I though when I saw it.
- TheDrunkMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There is more information in the ACTUAL article.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006460005,00.html - spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2DOUGLAS ADAMS REFERENCE!
- 0crabby0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That dryer looks like a sideways umbrella, or newspaper holder.
- spoulson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If I saw one in person, I'd have the undeniable urge to want to pee in it to see what 400mph does to it.
- guinsu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wow, it's almost as fast as a paper towel. Give it up, we just want to dry our hands the old fashioned way.
- lazlonger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1upload some mp3's!!! hilarious.
- 955701, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Me too. My first though was, well that will end up in someone's pants.
- tigertiger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1www.aremyhandsdryornot.com
www.ratemyhanddryer.com
It's gonna happen. - ElGuano, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yeah, nothing new. I loved using these things in Japan, but the biggest problem with them is that they get water everywhere. Unlike the ubiquitous US air dryers which are slow enough to evaporate the water on your hands, the Dyson-like ones take water off by sheeting it - right onto the machine itself. They always look like the catch-pan under your refrigerator's water dispenser - full of gross, stagnant water. No thanks.
- ChaseLudwick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1probably sounds like a jet engine hahaha
- ByteGuerilla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You forgot profit.
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