Air-purifying headphones with active noise cancelling (opens in new tab)

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...

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.

Bacteria -> Your hands

Your hands -> Windstream

Windstream -> Goes everywhere

It's not even about Dyson dryers, but dryers in general

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.

Is this a joke? Where have you been the last two years?

It is not a stretch. This is why many hospitals require staff to wear an N95 (a hard shell mask—not a surgical mask—in order to prevent as little leakage as possible) underneath a PAPR. PAPRs (with the exception of the CleanSpace Halo if using a special adapter) do not have source control. (I personally use an Optrel e9000x PAPR with an N95 underneath for source control. If not able to use a PAPR such as on an airplane, I wear a valve-free P100 mask [MSA Advantage 900] over an authentic KF94 mask [see: https://behealthyusa.net/ for KF94]. Yes, I am immunocompromised...)

This Dyson device does not have source control, and yes, it is a super-spreader device.

There is proof that such devices are super spreading tools: hospital administrators wore a blow up costume in to a Kaiser Hospital ER and caused a huge COVID-19 outbreak.

This was when contact tracing was in effect in California.

See: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/03/us/kaiser-san-jose-outbre...

Comments on r/Medicine subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/kpjs8s/inflatable...

This comment should NOT be downvoted. We are not comparing this device to somebody wearing a mask. We're comparing two mask-less people - one with, one without this device. In which case the quantity of virus expelled in their breath is equal, but the distribution of air is different. How this affects spread of disease is far from obvious.

It could spread more:

- it reaches more people

- it reaches people faster

It could spread less:

- much more diluted

- will dry droplets faster

- it works as a portable filter which filters part of the volume of air in that space

Agree 100%.

Visited most cities in India (Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore) and the pollution is atrocious. I wanted to return back but had to stay on due to a business trip. I can't imagine why/how anyone would want to live in any of the big cities in India. Love the country though.

There is a strong within our executive team to offshore to Latin American countries.

If I live in Beijing I’d probably wear a mask _with_ this thing on.

Or smoke season sort of anywhere downwind from the west coast of North America.

No it’s not. China especially is extremely wary of COVID spread more than anything, this product is never going to fly in that market.

This is actually the first use case that I can take seriously.