Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

This is old my man.  June 2007.  Where's it been?  NYC just added a bunch of public restrooms, plan to add more, and other cities are following suit.  The airblade didn't get the nod.

Couple of notes on the old article:  It appears the users are women.  A point raised by a gent on one of the Vacuum Forums is that the small airblade drying well would pose a problem for men with hairy man arms.  Recall: I believe it was Gandalf who did.

Second:  The unsanitary water/mess left on and around the airblade. Takes a custodian to monitor and clean.  Labor costs.

Rubbermaid recently entered the bathroom washroom industry by acquiring a company well intrenched in non-touch and sanitary bathroom devices.  Seems it has the hold on the market despite dyson's entrance in September 2006 with the airblade.  More common are the touchless paper towels that push out a towel from the the motion of hands.  Sure it uses trees for the paper.  But in a the current housing market with no wood beingh harvested for new home building and/or aluminum studs for frames, what else should be done with these trees?  No, not newsapers.  Most get news on-line and TV.  Paper towels!

Carmine D.

Mr. A:

Are the airblades standalone dryers in the A/P restrooms and/or do they coexist with the conventional hand dryers and paper towels?

Carmine D.

James Dyson was interviewed in Forbes recently and the topic of conversation was his Airblade.  Here.

Since it's launch in the summer of 2007, total Airblades sold are 100,000

Total sales in dollars:  $140,000

Cost to dyson to produce each unit: $840

Retail price: $1400 {about 3X as much as traditional hand dryers].

It has not taken off as quickly and well as dyson hoped. 

Carmine D.