Touch&Glide iron has legs / knows how to use 'em
By Ryan Block 
posted Aug 1st 2005 1:35PM
posted Aug 1st 2005 1:35PM
Not that we have that big a problem walking away from our irons when pressing our Anne Demeulemeester crisp for the
day, but if we did we sure would be glad to have an Oliso Touch&Glide, the iron that senses when you let go, and
automatically extends legs. Hell, the thing even turns it off if detects you haven't used it for a while. It's a little
steep at $120 US, but come on, according to Oliso it is the "first major innovation in iron design in over 60 years!"
Sixty years, people!
[Via News.com]
I don't think I would want to get in the habit of assuming my iron will lift itself up and turn itself off. Especially if you travel and use hotel irons or other peoples.
Still, that's pretty cool.
Wow.... now all I need is something that will turn my stove off when I've left it on.
The first thing I (painfully) learned about irons as a kid was from watching my elders and I'm dumbfounded as why this hasn't been fixed -- after all these years people still lick their finger and press it against the hot surface to hear a sizzle to know if it's hot enough.
#4, a good sign your iron is ready is when steam comes out of it.
Even decent $20 irons nowadays shut themselves off (timer), making you press the reset after say - 20 minutes. The legs thing, that's something unique.
I don't need an iron I just put on my shirt in the morning, then if it is wrinkled I breath on my hands, rub them together for a few seconds, then attempt to press the wrinkles out of my shirt. It doesn't work, but at least I feel like I made an effort.
Despite the fact that hot metal radiates infra-red and you can tell when its hot just by holding your fingers NEAR it? =p
#5 And when the indicator comes on that indicates it's hot. ;)
I don't know -- Is the cordless electric iron over 60 years old? If not, then I'd say that is a major innovation, and within the last 60 years.
I hope that thing doesn't knock itself off the ironing board (If it's too close to the edge or on an angle)or we could have some foot burning lawsuits. It had better raise it's legs slowly!
However, what happend to putting the iron up on it's ass. i luv amerika
#9, every iron that I can recall using only has a light as a power indicator.
#13- Convection? Back to high school physics with you.
An iron conducts heat primarily by radiation and conduction. Convection is when is happening when hot air rises- not really something you worry about with an iron. When you stick your finger next to an iron, you are mostly feeling radiation. When you touch an iron, you are mostly feeling conduction.
#3: we have one of those. Our oven turns off at the same time the timer goes off. I would have expected most reasonably new ovens to do the same.
I suspect it will be another 60 years before the next "major innovation" in iron design comes. (Likely from the robot vacuum cleaner people... who wouldn't buy an iron that irons your shirt itself while you eat breakfast?)
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