Yes, but did it actually work? Did it dry your hands well?

instead of playing about with bits of tape and paper, you might have answered that question!

Hey why didnt you just use some water
sounds kinda dumb given that water is so
plentyful I want to see it dry a hand not shot
bits of tape around the room i wonder what
moron thought of that test.
but i am sure that the machine will work

He could use water, but would you be able to see it? No.
That;s why he used things you could see, like tape and paper.

I am underwhelmed.

They've had these type of air dryers in Japanese public restrooms for quite a few years now.

I wanted to use something like maple syrup, which would be visible when blown off, but the Airblade in the video is the only prototype in the country. They weren't wild about the idea.

So I used the stickies to illustrate how fast the air was moving. In the first shot, where you see my hands in there sans stickies, my hands were wet. After removing them, they were no longer wet.

And yeah, Stephen, they've had similar units, primarily the Mitsubishi Jet Towel, in Japanese restrooms for a number of years. The Dyson differs in that it filters the air before it shoots the air out.

I found these dryers (not dyson)in Korea. This was two years ago and I'd see them in movie theaters and hospitals. They worked 100 times better than the old school dryers. Dyson makes decent products but this is nothing new...maybe a minor improvement on dryers that have been around for awhile now. 200 mph works just fine...they dry my hands in about 15 seconds.

theres um...one nasty tidbit...unlike regular dryers were people who don't wash their hands fully (i.e. don't use soap or just not cleanly) and dries their hand using a machines doesn't involve having their hands touch the machine except for the button. I can see this machine get nasty really fast when "those" people try to use the machine, and "those" people that aren't particularly dexteritous get their germs all over that opening in which we're suppose to stick our hands in....

Yeah, i use those when I go to Japan each year. Why didnt he do something fun with that like sticking a wet rat into there?

I agree with tada. Given the hygiene habits of most businessmen that I've seen over the years, there's simply no way I'd put my hands into one of those devices in an airport bathroom. From soap, to airborne fecal matter... it would just get funky really, really quick.

As a device in my home bathroom? Very cool. I already own a Dyson vacuum, so they'd match.

They have had these in Japan for years. They work flawlessly and should be installed everywhere. You can literally dry your hands in about 15 seconds. No pain and they really come out dry.