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M00seUK

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Re: more about dyson airblade?
Reply #10 - 10/01/06 at 11:44am

Okay, bold prediction time again, on the quite likely presumption that this is a hand drier we’re talking about. For a while now, Dyson have expressed the desire to capitalise on their ‘digital motor’ design. It stands to reason that a high performance motor can deliver a lot of ‘blow’, as well as suction power. But what else is there to improve on? There’s two categories, some hand driers are pathetic, whereas other feel like they’re about to take off under their own propulsion! Okay, so get that airflow and defuse it to create a ‘blade’ of air, like with a hairdryer attachment or a vacuum hard floor tool in reverse and move your hands backwards and forwards through the airstream to remove the excess water. To provide a credible alterative the existing products, I’d say you’d be looking to improve on 1) Drying time 2) Unit size 3) Noise levels 4) Energy consumption.

If so, it’ll be a challenging market to crack, the products and supply chains are already established with the installation / maintenance companies – but hey, you could have said the same years ago with vacuum cleaners. Being a well known brand helps, then getting the upmarket bars / clubs / hotels, etc. to insist on your brand.

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Reply #11 - 10/01/06 at 2:27pm

In the USA, the restrooms in hotels, airports, airplanes, restaurants, gas stations will sometimes have the instant hand liquid sanitizer containers provided along side the usual water sinks, soap containers, and air dryers and/or hand towels. The product is very inexpensive and affordable. Most Americans I know carry the stuff with them. I do. In my car, briefcase, etc.

The issues that many people have with public restrooms are the germs on the commonly used areas: like the door handles, sink faucets, toilet seats, and flush handles, towel and soap dispensers. Some users will not use the wash facilities and/or flush the toilets for fear of coming into contact with more germs than their own (there even is a phobia associated with this fear).

Many USA public restrooms overcome these concerns in recent years with motion and light detector devices that automatically turn on water faucets, dispense towels, soap and/or flush without human intervention. This conserves water use and costs too: a huge concern for environmentalists.

A mechanical device that automatically dispenses a set amount of the instant hand sanitizing cleanser (with lotion added to soften the hands), without using running water, and hastens the hand drying with a blower fan all in one 10 second process eliminates some of these concerns and costs. And is environmentally friendly for water conservationists. James is into that.

Then again it could be something completely different............

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Reply #12 - 10/01/06 at 2:28pm

Very good bold prediction M00seUK!

It would not surprise me if it is that. I read an interview somewhere on the internet that Dyson hopes in a few years time that the cost of making/manufacturing his digital motor will come down and will be cheaper to produce and be the same price of a conventional motor more or less!

I assume this will only happen if they capitalise on it! I'm surprised the Digital motor has not appeared in vacuum models such as the DC14 & DC15! But thats been discussed before!

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Reply #13 - 10/01/06 at 5:35pm

Quote from JD on 10/01/06 at 2:28pm:

Very good bold prediction M00seUK!

Hand driers/blowers are a conventional device in all USA restrooms already. And have been for many years. Am I missing something here with a "bold" prediction?

I know from spending time in Germany MANY years ago that the conventional way to dry hands int he WC was using a cloth towel. I would think the WC's in the UK/Europe have progressed beyond that stage to paper towels and air dryers (like the USA). Am I wrong?

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Reply #14 - 10/01/06 at 6:09pm

In my experience, North American facilities are comparable to the UK and also the places I’ve visited in Western Europe. The vast majority of high-traffic public places use wall-mounted hand ‘blowers’, with a small fraction using that continual-cloth-towel-on-a-roller thing. ‘blowers’ are also more common within new office blocks, but often complemented with a paper towel dispenser. The ‘World Drier’ mounts are fairly efficient (but noisy), the other types, generic brushed steel / plastic makes can take an age.

Where I live, within London’s former docklands, almost everything is newly redeveloped for the financial industries, so the public restrooms are to a very high standard. They have in them hand driers of the type I’ve never seen anywhere else. They’re built into a cavity, so that they lie flush with the wall and the hot air shoots forward through a horizontal slit in the unit. All looks very nice, but they are absolutely useless – forget 10-15 seconds, more like 100 seconds for half dry hands!

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johncainltd Senior Member been collecting vacuums since I was 3. Owned 76+ Posts: 129	Re: more about dyson airblade? Reply #15 - 10/02/06 at 1:20am Quote from old-timer on 09/30/06 at 1:33pm: Hi You guys are really grasping at straws,dont you know it's the new nose hair trimmer with 6 stage root cyclone technology. O.T. Sign me up! Ever since the gray hairs started comin in I've been sooooo depressed.
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Dyson DC18 Senior Member Dyson DC18 Coming Soon Posts: 224	Re: more about dyson airblade? Reply #16 - 10/02/06 at 11:07am For some reason I think it's going to be a Lawn Mower...
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JD Senior Member I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 188	Re: more about dyson airblade? Reply #17 - 10/02/06 at 2:54pm Nice one Dyson Chris, the name sounds like it could of been a lawn mower!
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dualcyclone Ultimate Member I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 1240	Re: more about dyson airblade? Reply #18 - 10/02/06 at 4:12pm Am I the only one who has spoken to the Dyson factory about the new Clothes Dryer? It goes along with the ContraRotator washing machine. The washer was never 'off the market' but was redesigned for the North American market (where front loading washers are the new 'rage' and are comanding high prices).
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Re: more about dyson airblade?
Reply #19 - 10/02/06 at 4:41pm

I thought they would be developing a clothes dryer looking at the patent filed for it!

If the ContraRotator was never 'off the market', why was it pulled from all the markets it was being sold and manufactoring stopped! High manufactoring cost I think was one reason! I know in the UK sales declined as it was thought to be too highly priced. Although UK 'Which' Mag gave it a excellent review! I was looking at getting one but was too late.

I hope they re-launch it in the UK - the ContraRotator Washing Machine!

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