THE CLASH OF THE HAND DRYERS!!!!!!

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The first time I saw an airblade (in the loo of the Social, of all places) oh how I scoffed - THAT THING WILL NEVER DRY MY HANDS. Put my hands in and faster than a cokehead cutting the toilet queue, my god my hands were dry. Have loved them ever since.

Wasn't so impressed with the airblade meself. Nice idea but had to move my hands pretty slowly to actually get them dry. Xlerator otoh - my skin! It's moving! It's like being in a centrifuge.

Xcelerators are awesome though - they make your skin vibrate with the power of several levels of G-force.

xpost

I assume Dyson is the same firm that produces those shitty "sleek" vacuum cleaners, right? I opt for the other one then.

Dyson vacuum cleaners are teh awesome!

In terms of innovation, Dyson have something new here, but the Xcelerator has taken what has worked really well for years and cranked it up to 11. Skin-shredding forces of air blasting off the water is all you really need from a dryer, innit?

I like the total immersion factor of the Dyson. It's like what I thought the future would be like - that futuristic lab in the Andromeda Strain where you shower just by stepping into a human shaped cubicle and a laser beam wipes the dirt from your body and dries it instantly.

I ABSTAIN PAPER TOWELS FTW. Quicker and better for you (did you know that hand dryers are very effective at getting remaining bacteria warm enough to be active again rather than wiped off and in the bin) and better for the environment (so much energy!). But then I've never used an Airblade, and it sure does look fancy.

The Xcelerator just blows me away, every single time. Remarkable.

I was totally 100% paper towels until I tried an Airblade. They are TEH FUTURE.

I would walk through a full-body-sized Xcelerator after getting out of the shower no bother at all (as long as there were no mirrors around where I could see my entire body being wobbled about by it).

(this was discussed in the pub once, the first time any of us saw an Xcelerator. Positives seemed to outweigh the negatives)

xpost, aye, I use paper towels at work, but in the likes of my local pub it is Airblade or one of those never-ending rolly towel things that look like they haven't been clean for 100 years, so no contest really.

The Airblade makes me excited to dry my hands. Who gets excited to dry her hands in this cynical modern age?

My doctor's office has an all-white, very professional and clinical looking either non-Dyson or private labeled Blade-style dryer. I've always wanted to ask someone about that so I could research patent lawsuits, but didn't want my doctor to think I was weird.

only used the airblade, doesn't seem to be any downside, and worked much better than i'd ever have thought.

Funny, I've had that full-body airblade conversation as well - wonder if there are reasons it would be unsafe?

would need to be 360 degrees to work, could be tricky that

The downside is you feel like a right n00b dangling your hands into a current of air in that fashion.

I'm fine with Dyson wanting to bring on the future but can't they just do it with hoverboards or something?

Airblade looks like it could be somehow played, like a theremin

Was full body Xcelerator, not Airblade. And yes, Airblades make you look a twat wiggling your hands up and down.

Dyson vacuum cleaners are teh awesome!

We had two... or maybe three and all of'em died on us pretty quickly. Especially if you want to vacuum for longer periods, it overheats and just shuts down (according to our cleaning lady).

where do i vote for "my pants"

bound to be at least one TMI poll where it's an applicable answer.

xxpost, but you don't have to change the bag! (I guess you don't have to change the bag if you pay someone else to do it either)

(this is about vacuum cleaners, btw, I'm sure someone will make it about elmo's pants shortly though)

sung to the tune of "Elmo's world"...

there are only v few of these fancy hand-dryers around here, and the most common things I use to dry my hands after using a public washroom are the right and left legs of my jeans. just sayin'.

I read this in a women's mag somewhere, but if you have to dry your hands on your pants (I typed "dry your pants on your jeans" which what?), do so on the back of your calves since very few people will see the wet hand prints back there in the way they would see them if you dried your hands on the front or back of your thighs.

i can't reach the back of my calves, without help at least.

yeah while my vote went to paper towels, if they're not available it's usually five seconds of the dryer, followed by fuck it I'm waiting no longer, followed by jeans. So black jeans FTW.

That said, while I still haven't used one, the Airblade has won me over.

I refuse to choose, these are both awesome

xlerator makes the most annoying noise i've ever heard.

Nothing is worse than the wimpy hand dryers that seem like they just have a captive asthmatic rabbit in there.

airblade crap - want to leave the toilet feeling my hands are clean but the uneven buffeting of the back vs. palm of hands means it is difficult to avoid at some point touching the machine even w/ trying

yes maybe only I have this problem and yes most of the hands put in the machine will probably have been washed a bit (but not all of them) but airblade crap

xecutioner amazing

are your hands the size of pineapples????

they are not

huh

are yours?

no, mine are on the smaller side, so I've never had a problem with touching any part of the Airblade

like large mangoes?

not that thick

regular pittas

No-one likes both hand dryers the same, Dan. Pls pick one.

(btw airblade --> sugban)

This is insane!

Like both of these much better than the crap old ones, but don't like seeing all the grotty crud piling up in the bottom of the airblade chamber.

I have never seen either one of these. You guys live in THE FUTURE.

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I learned on Sunday that they now have these in the public toilets in Hyde Park.

the dyson hand-pixelator

pretty sure that's a scene from tron 2

no papertowels in the work bathroom this morning, no handdryers either, wtf

damn i was gonna start this exact thread!

ha that pic makes it look like the Dyson melts yr hands

this is really tough

hand-melting vs hand-deforming

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btw BOTH AWESOME

aaaaah hand melting!!

hand deforming any day

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walking into a public restroom and seeing that i will be having an exit interview w/the dyson airblade makes my day

although i always end up overthinking the operation game of drawing my hands out & touching the machine.

have never used an xlerator. Love the Dyson. So have to go for that uneducatedly.

so i bitched about this once upthread and i guess no one else find the xlerator's noise like nails on a chalkboard?

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You guys are all soooo rong. The dyson thing blows your hands around and makes you touch the sides. Plus it just doesn't work as well!

wait ... so you're actually supposed to put your hands inside that thing?!