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> "instead of admitting that their product adds no value to anything": I actually think that their 'airblade' (pictured in the article) is a very innovative product. When I first used it like ~10 years ago, I remember telling myself "Wow! Finally someone figured out how to make a useful hand dryer". The old style hand-dryers just took too long to dry hands, bit too long for my patience.

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Have you ever tried their variation with the hand-dryer built into the sink faucet?

My experience: whatever fluids that were in the sink (soap scum/mine or other people's dirty water) flying into my face after being hit with Dyson-powered wind, me immediately jumping a foot back. Made me wonder how did they ever test this product before release.

This contraption: https://www.dyson.com/hand-dryers/dyson-airblade-tap-overvie...

considering the number of people who flush a toilet at work before using it I was just accepting of the fact they didn't mind a face full of germs.

When my work center switched to paper there was a brief period of people complaining about too much paper. the sad part was them, it was the lazy people who would just drop their used paper on the floors between the doors. Our restrooms have a vestibule, about four feet in depth, with doors on both ends. Building services had to add a trash can there. Anyone else run into behavior like that? To explain further, people used the paper from drying their hands to open the doors

Yes, I used one once... and never again, just try to locate the water sensor without accidentally triggering the explode the fucking sink all over your face bomb. I think dyson is so obsessed with trying to make use of fast moving air that they can't see it's a bad idea in an environment with bacteria laden water sitting on surfaces.

>I think dyson is so obsessed with trying to make money by selling frivolous luxury items that they can't see it's a bad idea in an environment with bacteria laden water sitting on surfaces.

FTFY.

Additionally, it's just unpleasant to use, even if it's not obvious enough to you that having dirty water blown all over you in a public toilet is extremely unhygienic... it's just goddamn unpleasant, I suppose it's users aren't it's customers, so who the hell is buying these things?

I wonder if it's related to the sink over which it's installed? The taps have always worked well in my experience.

All dryers should be banned, Dyson or not.

It don't like to be blown in the face with poop smelling stale air that any idiot can figure out would stir up more junk than possibly could be healthy, plus the hands feels jucky afterwards.

Why don't you simply just don't use them ?

It's not enough for you not to use them. Virus laden people need not to use them also.

The first time I used an airblade dryer I thought, "wow, my hands are still wet!"

Maybe I just have big hands or I'm uncoordinated, but I've never been able to use one of these things without touching the inside at the top at least once. The last thing I want to be doing is touching a probably filthy surface after washing my hands.

Yeah me too.

Then I learned how to use one.

(Which of course is a UX issue, they shouldn't need training)

There's a tiny sticker on the dryer that shows how to move your hands up and down through the curtain of air. I think over time, the sticker just fades away or something. But with all things UX, once you know exactly how to use, you never look at the 'instructions' again

I think that's often down to the technique you use to dry your hands. Used properly, it can do a decent job.

That said, I think the original design wasn't too amazing, though it did look cooler than most of the existing dryers at the time. I vastly prefer the newer design (https://www.prodryers.com/Dyson-Airblade-V-Hand-Dryer-HU02-S...) which I think does a better job. And it's certainly harder to touch the sides which is a problem a lot of people have with the original.

My noise sensitive daughter used to break into tears just looking at them.

However, they are responsible for one of the best memes ever:

https://i.imgur.com/XOjT5px.jpg

I would much rather dry my hands on my shirt or wave them around.

I always could hear them from the dining room of restaurants even with the bathroom door closed. That's what I always am reminded of when I think of / see them.

In my experience it can't even dry your hands unless you wait several minutes. A very thin film of water always remains on my hands.

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