This looks absolutely brilliant. A mobile air purifier that doesn’t touch your face.
Wow.
Air-purifying headphones with active noise cancelling
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#42A.K.A 'Snot Cannon' I can see this has having the similar type of negative public health impact as the Dyson Blade dryers in public toilets, simply circulating fecal matter further in an enclosed space. Naomi Wu with the critique: https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/150912514143903334...
What's the issue with the dryers? You use them to dry already-washed hands and the dryers themselves aren't very close to the toilets.
Bacteria -> Your hands
Your hands -> Windstream
Windstream -> Goes everywhere
It's not even about Dyson dryers, but dryers in general
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#43My first thought is about how headphones have become a tacit treatment for agoraphobia. And agoraphobia is also highly correlated with hypochondria. So if you are willing to pay $500 for noise cancelling headphones that help separate yourself from those around you, I suppose there might be a market for this.
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#44A lot of negativity here but I guess the target market is locations where the air pollution is bad enough that the benefits of escaping it outweigh looking like an extra from a sci-fi B-movie. I remember hearing on the radio in London how air pollution was going to be very bad one day approaching 10 on some scale. A scientist was being interviewed and was asked "Where would the pollution in Beijing be on this scale?"…
I remember similar negativity in the western press when tesla unveiled their 'biohazard mode'.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the issue with the dryers? You use them to dry already-washed hands and the dryers themselves aren't very close to the toilets.
Bacteria -> Your hands Your hands -> Windstream Windstream -> Goes everywhere It's not even about Dyson dryers, but dryers in general
It's meant for hands that were just washed. I understand that not everyone does a great job washing, but I have a hard time believing this poses a real threat..
Re: Air-purifying headphones with active noise cancelling
#46A.K.A 'Snot Cannon' I can see this has having the similar type of negative public health impact as the Dyson Blade dryers in public toilets, simply circulating fecal matter further in an enclosed space. Naomi Wu with the critique: https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/150912514143903334...
What's the issue with the dryers? You use them to dry already-washed hands and the dryers themselves aren't very close to the toilets.
That assumes everyone thoroughly washes their hands, which is unlikely. Dyson hand dryers, specifically, always have a nasty puddle of water at the bottom of their drying "crevice" in busy bathrooms.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the issue with the dryers? You use them to dry already-washed hands and the dryers themselves aren't very close to the toilets.
Bacteria -> Your hands Your hands -> Windstream Windstream -> Goes everywhere It's not even about Dyson dryers, but dryers in general
But you just washed your hands. Where are the bacteria coming from?
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#48Considering how much backlash there is around valved respirators, a purification system that blasts aerosolized droplets of spit out into the air seems like an obvious failure
I think the target market is less “COVID” and more “Beijing air pollution”.
Or smoke season sort of anywhere downwind from the west coast of North America.
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#49A.K.A 'Snot Cannon' I can see this has having the similar type of negative public health impact as the Dyson Blade dryers in public toilets, simply circulating fecal matter further in an enclosed space. Naomi Wu with the critique: https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/150912514143903334...
This just sounds extremely manipulative and I don't see how I can trust this opinion. It also seems wrong:
the average person expels 300-500ml of this fluid a day in the form of a fine mist- an aerosol. You can see it in cold weather.
That's condensation from humidity in the air you breathed out. That's why you can only see it in cold weather. Does it really contain viruses? Any data on this?
Re: Air-purifying headphones with active noise cancelling
#50A.K.A 'Snot Cannon' I can see this has having the similar type of negative public health impact as the Dyson Blade dryers in public toilets, simply circulating fecal matter further in an enclosed space. Naomi Wu with the critique: https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/150912514143903334...
What's the issue with the dryers? You use them to dry already-washed hands and the dryers themselves aren't very close to the toilets.
No one washes their hands perfectly (e.g., ready for surgery), so when you dry them there’s still a lot of bacteria present. Dyson dryers aerosolize those particulates, and they do it far more than other dryers.
Think of it this way — they don’t dry your hands, they blow the water off. Where does the water go? All over the bathroom. Dyson dryers disperse fluids up to 3 meters away.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/dyson-dryers-hurl-60...