For what it's worth, the two models singled out in the article are the MOST common at restaurants near me new enough to have recently reno'd their bathrooms. I

For what it's worth, the two models singled out in the article are the MOST common at restaurants near me new enough to have recently reno'd their bathrooms. I don't know if they're cheap, or if they're "fancy" so they're trendy, or if it's some weird American thing about having the SUV of hand dryers, but the Xcelerator and Dyson things are _endemic_. My 6yo has been complaining about them for years and not once did I ever tell him he was wrong; in fact I've taken to just walking back to my table with wet hands and drying them off with a napkin if they're going to be serving me the shit sandwich of hearing damage for washing my hands. I think the simplest solution would be for municipalities' health departments to outlaw them, or at least set VERY conservative noise limits.