Dysons were briefly popular in hospitals, as a cost-saving measure. Turns out permanently installing a safe harbor for bacteria in the form of a device that is constantly hot and moist, and then blowing that crap onto people’s hands...

Dysons were worse. It was so damn easy to accidentally touch the edge of one while pulling your hand out. Time to wash your hands -all over again-.

It’s been a while since I saw a hospital with air blow dryers, Dyson or otherwise. At least in the areas where physicians clean their hands.

The Dyson hand dryers are really awful. This adds a dimension to it, but the one that bothers me more is that their design makes them excessively awkward, if not impossible, for many people to use at all.

https://www.disabilityaccessconsultants.com.au/dyson-hand-dr...

A few years ago, I recall being impressed at the clealiness of the toilets in Edinburgh train station. An attendant was diligently wiping each urinal with a cloth, and also used the same cloth to wipe the Dyson hand dryer.

I’m sure it’s not a common practice, but I’ve avoided them ever since.

Dyson has always part amazed, part horrified me. he's become inordinantly wealthy creating products which are almost universally more expensive but less performant (however you care to measure) yet somehow has convinced gazillions of people his premium priced products are better.

edit: I am currently in a large NHS hospital and every desk has one of those £300 fanless fans on them. what the fuck?

If you think the airblades are bad then wait until you try out the airblade + tap combined: https://www.dyson.com/hand-dryers/dyson-airblade-tap-overvie... # I've only seen (and used) them at a service station in Gruyère.

They're one of the most ridiculous non-solutions to a non-problem I've seen - you end up setting the dryer off when washing your hands (if washing your hands properly) and blow water everywhere. Even if you don't set them off you still end up blowing the excess water all over yourself as the sink acts as a nice surface for it all to bounce off.

Doors that kick open are a bigger deal than whatever is there for hand drying.

The air blades are really gross hand dryers to use. The first time I saw one was in a bar/restaurant or pool hall, forget which, but I gave it a shot and accidently touched the edge of the dryer which was wet. I stopped, washed my hands again, and dried it with those cheap chemical smelling brown paper towels which leave your hands feeling like there is a film of leftover hand towel chemicals. That was more preferable to the disgusting air blade. Never used an air blade again. And to top it off, they are always wet and covered in dried drippings of lord knows what.

The best hand dryers are those high velocity designs where you put your hand under the blast and dry them in seconds.

Did I miss a step in the method?

- slather hands in virus ? - dry with one of three methods

Shouldn't step 2 be "wash carefully with warm water and soap"?

I've always wondered why they aren't equipped with UV light to kill bacteria

The other thing the Dyson blade does is that it pushes the water up your wrist and then your arms, as you go after it trying to dry it out.

They also don’t actually work outside of a few models, they are always slow to use, they are extremely loud, and when restaurants only have air dryers and not paper towels, you can’t clean anything besides your hands (e.g. your shirt or your face). Air dryers suck.

I love the update. Dyson (of course) just threw 4 studies at them, that were conducted under unrealistic conditions, just like they accused the researcher of.

Just like any other capitalistic company, instead of admitting that their product adds no value to anything and trying to come up with something else, they go full anti-science.

The Dyson Airblade V model fixed the "hands getting pushed against the walls while drying" problem. It looks like it's been out since 2013... I wonder the article didn't mention it.

https://www.dyson.com/hand-dryers/dyson-airblade-v-overview....

So, if I don't touch anything in the bathroom at all and I unzip my pants and take out my penis without touching it and pee and then put everything back without touching it - I'm spreading more germs than someone who touches everything in the room?

I doubt it.

At first I read the title as "hair dryer" and thought the article was about an Internet connected hair dryer that messages your friends to let them know you're drying your hair.

Paul Foot rant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnh6anCwpUo

They're too loud and they don't work. Paper towels are quiet and they work (or drying your hands on your jeans)

However, the real reason these irritating dryers are popular is virtue-signalling: they're a way of announcing to everyone that you washed your hands