Panasonic's Quick Power Dry hand dryer promises 2-3 second escapes from public toilets
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Jul 21st 2009 4:31AM
posted Jul 21st 2009 4:31AM
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Until drying technology is invented that works similarly to future McFly's jacket in Back to the Future II, I think they Dyson Airblade suffices for now, which is already quite impressive.
dyson airblade owns and isn't the size of a human torso
Yeah Dyson Airblade FTW
Dont you guys wear jeans?
I tried the Airblade and can attest it's awesome, but forget not touching the surface unless you have really skinny hands. They also don't mention the fact that the Airblade is less than half the size of this monstrosity.
lol @ McFly's jacket
I'd rather get a smart towel from Tyna corp. But you gotta keep that towel away from your "stash".
Jesus, the Dyson Airblade is a ripoff of this design, not the other way around.
Hand dryers like these have been around in Japan for probably 20 years. The only difference here is probably an extra 5mph of air speed. But the basic design is the same.
Dyson didn't invent anything in hand dryers.
Obviously the patent office disagrees with you Jeff. If you use one of the Dyson hand dryers you'll realise that the design is very very different to a conventional hand dryer; it's certainly not merely an, 'extra 5mph of air speed.'
I don't know about the Airblade in particular, but Jeff's right - similar designs have been everyone in Japan for years and they're pretty damn good at drying your hands.
Hand dryers are great and all, but what about the bacteria-slathered door handles?
@Ryan:
I usually use a paper towel to open the door. If not available, I pull my arm up my sleeve so I can grab the door with my sleeve. It really defeats the purpose of washing your hands when the first thing you do afterward is touch a door covered in bacteria.
Ryan Trevisol
Please keep in mind that this hand dryer is promising to dry your hands fastest, but i can bet you it doesnt filter the air it uses to dry your hands, meaning that its blowing all the bacteria in the bathroom environment on your hands
the dyson airblade on the other hand is constantly purifying the air its using meaning your hands are bacteria free after you use it.
If you use one of these then you don't get the luxury of being given a paper towel by the bog goblin. If you're really lucky they even give out lollipops.
I agree with Jeff in that Dyson's "design" has been around for years (maybe not 20) but I have seen this same design in Japan years before Dyson even mention their AirBlade.
In a time when everyone seems to want to be environmently friendly and try to consume as little power as posible it seems to me that this luxury item is for people who either dont care about the environment or dont know how to shake the water off theire hands by themselves...
And thousands of tons of paper towels thrown away is any better?
The read link says that the dryer consumes 1,230W, and drying takes 2-3 seconds. Most hand dryers are 1800-2000W and take 15+ seconds per dry...so this dryer takes 6-10 times less energy than a typical unit.
That isn't necessarily so...you could purchase green power and your impact would be zero.
Dry dick > The environment.
I pray I never walk into the toilets whilst JZ is 'using' the hand dryer.
You must be nuts.
This will be a great idea for bars for when drunk people stumble into the washroom and see this dryer that looks a lot like a urinal...
The real risk is that George Michael stumbles into the washroom and confuses this dryer for an undercover police midget.
nothing is like drying your hands in hot vaporized urine, espesially not some that have been there for a while. I recall a sauna where someone have gotten the great idea of boosting with some bodily fluids. not even guantanamo was as cruel as a second in there.
My immediate thought when I saw it was "I'm not sticking my hands in a thing at that height in a washroom for sure"
Even if it was the teetotaller club washroom, it's not just drunks that try to be 'funny'.
Now...is the girl in the picture part of the blow dryer?? or she just blows dry??
Ahhh another dirty comment sorry its 2 AM over here...
you are sexist scum
He may be a scum bag, but I think he nailed it perfectly. I give him a 8 for effort, 10 for landing.
A little moment's thought to design wouldn't go amiss. The airblade (google it if you've never used or seen one) is intriguing, and almost beguiling. It entices you to find out what it does, and it does what it does exceptionally well.
As konshuss says above, this looks like another urinal which will be an unmitigated disaster for everyone involved. Try not to imagine what would happen when a jet of air travelling at 280mph meets something else.
I do wonder how this sits with the patent that dyson holds on the airblade, however from a cursory glance the patent looks very specific (which I guess it has to be!)
man you really love hand dryers
Dyson's patent applied to specific devices, and I think it actually expired.
nm was thinking of the vacuum, I hear he had much hope to unfairly take advantage of many more people, I mean to say 'create exciting business opportunities' with his new thing in an interview not too long ago, he did however say that it 'scrubs the water off since people don't want to wait', not sure how his works though, can't be just air blowing since that's been patented and produced since the aztecs or thereabouts.
nice! :D
Whatever happened to tho XELERATOR ones that blow so fast they warp your skin?
i used one at valley fair like this and it was just a fast as the XELERATOR but more efficient.
yeah the XELERATOR ones do quite a good job of making the skin on your hand ripple about. They are still going about I have seen them in the UK and some guy at a trade fair trying to sell them in Australia.
I'd never put my hands into a machine that looks like a document shredder.
Perfect for sitting on.
I am just imagining a nice warm dry butt.
Carefull now. We dont want any morons getting curious. Have you read the Health section on Yahoo Answers?
*sigh*
in reply to konshuss
silly commenting system
2-3 seconds? If they really deliver, then it's good. Most current hand dryers take too long to be practical. I'd rather grab a paper towel and go, faster than standing in front of a loud dryer.
ah hasn't something like this been out for years. I total forget the name but it's basically the same design and concept, I've used more then a few over the last couple a years.
The hand dryer at "Rice" here in NYC is hands down the best looking and working i have ever seen.
Which one? They seemed to have opened 4 of them all of a sudden.
Can't I just use that girls black skirt to dry my hands on?
I`m personally more impressed these days by the sudsy soap, faucet, and hand dryer in one thing that I`ve been encountering. They seem to be more and more common... put your hand to the left and get it covered in sudsy soap - move it to the right and rinse - move it back toward you and it`s dried by violent wind.
Get it all done in one stop.
Never seen one of those you mention.... anyone have a link to a video, the makers web site, or at least a picture?
This looks similar to hand dryers I have seen in Noi Bai airport in Hanoi - and occasionally elsewhere. The ones in Noi Bai are significantly smaller, but will BLAST your hands dry in seconds! And I bet they don't cost nearly as much.
They are standard in Japan. This is just a new model.
Indeed I have seen these dryers for the past 5 years - at least.
in denmark we alrdy have thes things,
made by dison that is.
boo to that - guess i'll be peeing on the wall of subway for some time to come.
...because there are no toilets in New York subway
The subway is the toilet!
I used one of these once. It's awesome because it works.
we have some of these here in london in some new toilets
Nice! Never have to shake again.
Agree with Jeff and others that may have said this has been around in Japan and other Asian countries. Not sure why a patent is being issued - maybe it collects the water and is attached to a water fountain on the other side of the wall. Or maybe it sprays soap, then water, drys and applies lotion. I have even seen this type of hand dryer in Chicago (Whole Foods Market to be specific and my memory is correct.)
I am not sure why I care and why I am taking the time to comment.
It's hard not to touch the sides in similar dryers. I sometimes end up washing my hands twice. Where's the time savings in that?
Wow...no one points out the biggest issues here.
First, at least half of guys don't even bother to wash their hands. You know you've seen it. So they handle their junk, grab the door handle, and walk out. Green dryers are great, but I'm still not touching a door handle in a public bathroom without some cloth or paper in between me and all the crabs crawling around the handle.
FAIL.
Push Button; Stinky Fingers
nice ass on her.
I agree ;)
Jeff have you ever been in japan?
i live here been here for 11 years, if you have some Japanese girl and try to be nice to her or you are japanese and make other think that japan is something better than anything out there than is all good, (if they never been in japan that is) but stop, Japanese copy everything from the west, so stop thinking that japanese are great, they are not.
guys if you see the Japanese style toilet is like from the 1900, they have the new toilet western design nothing you see out there is Japanese is just copy from the west, the true Japanese stuff is manga, and perverts.
They have these dryers in the bathrooms at the California Academy of Sciences.
Devices similar to these have been in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport for a couple years now.
Cool i got to use one of these in a theater here in California. Feels a little weird.
Perhaps they never seen the dyson??
http://joemills.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/dyson_airblade-1.jpg
Maybe the installers just installed it upside down and it's suppose to be inverted and you put your hands up in it instead, I mean it's new, mistakes happen.