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Air-purifying headphones with active noise cancelling

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Re: Air-purifying headphones with active noise cancelling

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Post by oarsinsync »

AlexandrB wrote: post #46
thebean11 wrote: post #40

Earlier 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.

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.

The sheer number of people I've seen running their hands through water for a second before moving onto the drier was alarmingly high in 2019 (pre-covid).

I don't know how much that's changed, but I wouldn't expect the change to be particularly meaningful, sadly.

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Post by webmaven »

maerF0x0 wrote: post #33

This _has_ to be an early Apr 1. Please be an early Apr fool's ... Has it really gotten this bad? If so I hope this is a wake up call, we don't want to live in a Mad Max: fury road reality, right?

Maybe. Same time last year they launched the Detect (cordless vacuum with a laser) and I thought it was an April Fools.

I think timing product launches to cause such speculation may be a deliberate tactic.

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Post by kindatrue »

WithinReason wrote: post #47
Mo3 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

"washed"

Have you seen people in the real world?

Re: Air-purifying headphones with active noise cancelling

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Post by 404mm »

thebean11 wrote: post #40
hunglee2 wrote: post #18

A.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.

I cannot even count all the times when I went to use these dryers at always-packed IKEA and immediately got a mouthful of water droplets. No idea if they came from my hands or somebody else’s. TBH I don’t want to know. I just dry my hands on my clothing now.

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Post by netizen-936824 »

oarsinsync wrote: post #51
AlexandrB wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The sheer number of people I've seen running their hands through water for a second before moving onto the drier was alarmingly high in 2019 (pre-covid). I don't know how much that's changed, but I wouldn't expect the change to be particularly meaningful, sadly.

Don't worry, that number hasn't changed

Re: Air-purifying headphones with active noise cancelling

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Post by captn3m0 »

dia80 wrote: post #17

A 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?"…

Any day there AQI is below 100 in any of the Indian metros is a good day.

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Post by SllX »

WithinReason wrote: post #47
Mo3 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

You’re lucky if people even make a show of washing their hands. If they wash them well, then you have just met a unicorn. And even people who do normally wash their hands well sometimes run into issues like there not being any goddamn soap stocked (in the same bathroom, 3 days in a row).

Don’t use the air blowers; just let your hands air dry if there’s no paper towels. It doesn’t take very long and has been basically my standard practice for about 10 years now.

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