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the restroom mirror is covered in propaganda about how, in spite of what you know, the dyson airblade is an engineering marvel
I wash my hands and wave them under the bicycle handlebars attached to the faucet in order to activate the airblade
it blasts cold air onto my hands with painful force. the remaining foaming soap still in the bowl of the sink shoots up and covers the mirror.
my hands are still as wet as when I started. no amount of airblade dries your hands
“no you see it’s good and innovative because” I suddenly rip off your mask and you’re water in a human suit
the dyson airblade is a conspiracy by big moisture to make more wet
“no you see the competition is even worse” the competition doesn’t have a pervasive propaganda campaign about how good it is. you see an old school steel single hole hand dryer you know you’re leaving soaking wet
@zzt it can't be that stupid,
@davidgerard @zzt As someone I know once said (well wrote, on the bottom of a photo of a Dyson AirBlade), "The messiest urinal".
@zzt They're mostly marketing wank, but in my experience that style of "air squeegee" works surprisingly well to get the majority of liquid off if you do it right (and it's installed in a way that makes it possible...)
That said, I still prefer some good old recyclable/compostable dead tree. Less hand-crap vaporized and splattered all over the place.
@abucci Wasn't my intention, but I can see how it came across that way. (I really hate how LLMs and the arseholes around them have stolen so much from us, including being able to say "you're trying to use a screwdriver like it's a wrench" as a legitimate tip...)
I think dyson in particular are more crap and marketing than anything else, (every one of their products I've had the opportunity to use was crap) but the "airblade" concept appears to have come almost fully-formed from the industrial world, name and all: "air knives" for keeping water spray off of windows without a mechanical wiper. So my "suggested usage" comes from how those are used, with the airstream almost parallel to the surface. (But as usual, dyson's implementation of it is absolute crap)
It's the noise of them I'm concerned about. What kind of hearing damage might it contribute to.
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a lot of people are posting in this thread about how good the dyson airblade is
a product that has never dried my hands under any circumstance in any incarnation in any geographic location I’ve ever been in