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I hate those god-awful AirBlade dryers. I have long fingers and it is almost impossible to dry my hands without that disgusting pool of water flicking up onto t
by satysin 7y ago
I hate those god-awful AirBlade dryers. I have long fingers and it is almost impossible to dry my hands without that disgusting pool of water flicking up onto the tips of my fingers. Curl your fingers you say? Not possible due to how narrow the gap is without almost always making contact with the sides of the unit.
Terrible machines.
- flir 7y agoTotally agreed. Can't get my hands in and out of them without brushing the sides. It's not easy to take something terrible (a hand dryer) and make it worse. Since this pandemic, I've just stopped using them altogether.
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- Polylactic_acid 7y agoThey have an alternative version that solves this issue. I'm not sure if this is a successor or alt product though. https://www.dyson.com.au/hand-dryers/airblade-v.aspx https://www.dyson.com.au/hand-dryers/airblade-v.aspx
- sjwright 7y agoStill looks like a great way to aerosolize the content of people's insufficiently washed hands. Yeesh.
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoIt is surprising this wasn't realized when the machine was being developed. Contacting the pool of water at the bottom, or the sides of the drier, seems reasonably unhygienic.
- erikpukinskis 7y agoDesign is fundamentally iterative. It’s easy to see the right design in hindsight, but it takes raw numbers to get there: you have to throw away a certain number of designs to get to the right one. And throwing away designs costs money. That’s why often it’s not until v2 or v3 of a product that they hit the right design. You often need the revenue from v1 and v2 to pay for more thrown away designs.
- qwerty456127 7y agoThe world is designed for short people with short parts. Fingers are not the only problem.
- sjwright 7y agoTerrible machines before the pandemic; an order of magnitude more terrible during it.