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Dyson launches Airblade Tap, a hand-drying water faucet
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430mph? ...for shaving and teeth whitening.
Visualante2
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Go figure, Mitsubushi sucks at getting their product out there for 15 years. Their loss.
Screw those things. SO LOUD. In a 5x5 bathroom it is like being next to a jet engine. I would prefer paper towels any day.
Why do we still not have automatic sliding doors for public bathrooms?
Activation would naturally translate into the hand blocking most, if not all of the air. Besides, older hand dryer models actually had a flipping nozzle for face drying.
I thought that was for the Bladeless fan, though this is just an application of that anyways.
PhoncipleBone
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Because of costs really. I would think having the angled halls leading to the rest room would be most cost effective at having the restroom "closed" off and not having to use a door. But then it takes up a lot more space.
Yeah, I guess it just makes more sense to arrange the bathrooms to have open access. But it would be cool...
PhoncipleBone
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Yeah, I guess it just makes more sense to arrange the bathrooms to have open access. But it would be cool...
Open access also creates a larger area for lines to form. Sorry, flashbacks to airports and movie theaters.
SeaOfMadness
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Great. Now I have to wait for some dumbass to wash AND dry their hands before I can use the sink. Brilliant.
SeaOfMadness
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Either I'm dryer-challenged or they don't work for me. My hands are always wet when the thing turns off. It doesn't help that the air only comes on for like 3 seconds.
Devil Theory
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I fucking hate these things. The gap isn't big enough and you get water from other people's hands and shit all over your own hands.
Paper towels are the best way. Air dryers suck ass. I don't want my hands just dry, I want to wipe shit off of them.
Darth Pinche
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I'm a fan of the excelerator thing, but I still prefer good old paper towels
Watch this video on how to use a paper towel. I am not kidding it is great and really works. Less enegry used and can increase the use of recycled materials.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FMBSblpcrc
Watch this video on how to use a paper towel. I am not kidding it is great and really works. Less enegry used and can increase the use of recycled materials.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FMBSblpcrc
After our floor was renovated at work last year, the bathrooms went all motion sensor active for everything: urinals, toilets, soap dispenser, faucets and paper towels. Only they somehow got the set up wrong or not calibrated correctly, and they were generally way too hyper sensitive. Walking into the bathroom and past the urinals caused some of them to flush. Likewise walking past the paper towel dispenser caused them to crank out towels.
I had one day when I walked into the bathroom and, without actually doing anything, caused urinals to flush, faucets to turn on, soap to crank out and paper towels to dispense. It was terrifying, like some scene from Poltergeist.
They got things fixed up a week later. But it was a dark glimpse of how scary it will be when the machines start to take over.
Yup, I've been doing this for a few months now, ever since I saw the video. I've probably save a spool of paper towels at work all on my lonesome at this point.
Valkyr Junkie
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Yup, recognizing success and capitalizing on it seems to be endemic across all industries when it comes to Japanese companies.
I believe the gaps in the Mitsubishi models I used in Japan all seemed to larger since I never had a clearance issue until I used one of the Dyson models. But yeah, that is pretty gross.
Deified Data
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Dyson: The world's leading innovator in shit people didn't ask for and don't want.
Everything they build either sucks or blows.
But the Dyson looks awesome
This thing is in one of the local bar around here and it sucks, you always end up hitting the back of the thing when it starts up (defeating the purpose) and it isn't much more effective than a regular air dryer.
Is no one else gonna comment on this? Because it is brilliant.
Yeah pretty much. A public restroom that uses the maze entry so there's no physical door, plus uses auto proximity hand drying systems, plus auto proximity soap dispensers and auto proximity water spouts is just fantastic. You don't have to touch anything some other nasty person has touched. Its great.
Seriously... god bless the men and women that came up with those ideas.
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
I worked at a company with a couple of those in the men's bathroom. It just didn't work out. They thought they could get rid of paper towels, but the hand dryers took too long and it ended up causing a "traffic jam" as it took longer to stick hands in the device than get a towel and keep moving while drying hands.
The airblade experiment lasted about a month.
But the Dyson looks awesome
Whenever I try these at the airport, I always have to stick my hands in a few times to get all the water off. I've been watching the videos mentioning a 10-second dry time, but that never happens. So more like 20 seconds. Plus, as others have mentioned, the space between is so small, I'm bound to touch the sides. Supposedly that's all moot, as according to their videos, the air technology supposedly "blasts off" bacteria off your skin regardless.
SeaOfMadness
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I dunno, your shirt?
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