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No. This is yet another urban myth. "Despite no concrete evidence to support the concept, belief in fan death persists to this day in Korea,[further explanation needed] and also to a lesser extent in Japan.[1][2][3]"
I'm sure the comment was sarcastic.
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I prefer the Excel XLERATOR hand dryers, and usually spec them over most other models. Hands dry in ~10 seconds, not spashing onto a lower surface, etc.
I thought those were considered to be a bad idea because they blasted all of the germs from your hands all over the room? Also, my kids won't use them because they're too loud.
Also, the dyson's do the same thing.
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Check out AvE’s tear down of a $500 Dyson hair dryer.[1] He was expecting to ridicule it but was instead blown away by the engineering - tiny high torque zinc cast brushless DC motor, CNC-milled impeller, etc. It’s a good watch, including FLIR performance analysis, Fourier analysis of bearing noise, and more. In summary it’s definitely more engineering porn / extreme overkill than marketing bs. [1] https://youtu.be/j…
It reminds me of a less-extreme version of Juicero. They made a $700 WiFi-connected "juicer" that squeezed bags of juice using QR codes to scan the bags and then a custom power supply, custom machined gears, and a custom 15A 330V DC motor to actuate a press to squeeze the bags between two metal plates. Of course, a roller could have done it for a fraction of the price, or you could have just let gravity pour the juic…
Dyson : Air Products :: Beats : Audio Products Pretty much every Dyson product I've used, from the public bathroom air "blades" to the vacuums, seem like a gimmicky, inferior products with a premium price tag. None of them do their intended job better than older, cheaper products in their category. I know James Dyson is regarded as a genius engineer, but the consumer product company bearing his name seems to be 99% m…
I also bought a pair of beats running earphones that work better for me than the apple airpods because they do not fall out, they were both about the same price.
I did a bunch of tests with a similar filter (albeit comparing to a cheaper commercial purifier) https://dynomight.net/2020/12/15/some-real-data-on-a-DIY-box... It's crazy that commercial manufacturers usually don't even attempt to provide data like this to show that their products actually, you know, work.
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Yes, we have the vacuum on a stick at work. It's a cheap plastic thing that looks like a sex toy for Buck Rogers and it doesn't perform nearly as well as the Numatic Henry we have at home.
We also have a Real vacuum (the numatic, we have a George but same thing), as well as a dyson v7. The dyson's are bagless but they have to be emptied all the time, and the maintenance is a lot more of a chore. I think the ideal mix would be to have a cordless dyson but with sort of a base that empties into a bagged vacuum, similar to the robot vacs nowadays that empties themselves and have a bag that can be thrown aw…
And while it's bagless, with my cats I had to empty the canister a couple of times every time I cleaned the house.
Now the power supply to the rotating brush seems to have died, I'll probably try to fix it eventually but I took the opportunity to buy a good old Henry as a replacement. It's got a huge bag, a huge filter, it's much more powerful and does a great job. Yeah, I have to buy bags, but they're cheap and that's basically the only maintenance I have to worry about.
Technology Connections did an episode on air humidifiers a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHeehYYgl28 The fan and filter size matter the most. Most of these things are hugely overpriced for what they are.
After watching his dishwasher episode I lost all respect for him. He clearly forced that episode and his conclusions were predetermined so he could have a clickbait video title/theme.
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Further Protip: Wipe your hands on your jeans.
Unless I'm at the library or a Starbucks, I generally don't wear the kind of clothes in public that one wipes hands on.