Comments on: Interestment’s Top Four: Hand Dryers

By: Lora

Lora — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:53:34 +0000

How could you forget the hand towel that we all had at school? Or is Interestment full of private school chaps? If you are talking about hand dryers, we have to think back to our childhoods and the miniature toilets and sinks.
After you had wiped/serrated your baby’s bottom with tracing paper, you skid across the soaked tiled floor doing a new kind of hopscotch from tile to tile avoiding the overspill from the constantly flooded toilet and landing at the hand towel machine. Looking back, I now truly understand why we had to have black plimmies in our standard school uniform and not any other branded trainers. Those plain Black plimmies were 3% cotton canvas and 97 % rubber death grip to avoid premature accidental deaths in toilets.
I think the brand of the device was called Hygiene with a Pink logo (the cleaning lady was also called Jean, “Hi Jean !” we would trill when we passed her mopping the floors of the corridors, hours of fun with that early word play)
Inside Hygiene was 20 meters of Yves Klein Blue robust cotton (same colour as Jean’s tabard). Hold on with both hands and pull down, no lever action, no sensor action, just reach and pull, reach and pull, just like shinning up a rope but without the nice tingly feeling between your legs. The sound of the cogs inside was a rig a dug a dug a dug, rug dug a dug a dug. This was on a good day, when the machine was full, but for the most part the entire towel was pulled out of its rung by first break. An Yves Klein snake across the bathroom like a fancy red carpet across a sea of Kia Ora piss. Think of it like Wally Raleigh laying down his cloak for you and follow the yellow brick road to find the one dry square on 10 meters enough to hygienically (Hi Jean!) dry one tiny fingernail on and then do what your daddy taught you, dry the rest of your hands on your skirt/or school trousers and wear them the next day.

Why I have such vivid memories of early toilet use is worrying. And P.S. this wasn’t Borstal junior detention centre, it was St Josephs R.C. primary school, Leicester…ahh the Catholics, fucking cruel bunch.
I’m off to see my therapist…..

By: WEBTHUMP: July 15 2009 « Daily News

WEBTHUMP: July 15 2009 « Daily News — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:22:06 +0000

[...] 8 – The Dyson Airblade continues to receive mad props as the king of all hand driers. Someone send us a Dyson airblade. DYSON AIRBLADE! – Interestment [...]

By: Ollie

Ollie — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:18:28 +0000

If you like the Dyson, have you tried the Mitsubishi Jet Towel. Used one in an M&S store and found it to be better – not as loud and just as fast. Checked it out on the web and found it’s lower energy than the Dyson so you can feel better about the planet too!

By: Spencer

Spencer — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:23:35 +0000

YOU’RE WRONG INTERESTMENT

EVERYONE knows the World Hand Dryer Corporation’s ‘Model A series’ hand dryer was the world champion until Dyson accidentally installed one of his cyclones backwards while vacuuming his bathroom.

Yes, it may look similar to the Dayton 5W630, but it wins hands down. In fact, I used a Dayton last night in a pub off Trafalgar Square and I’ll say it was ‘quite good’.

The Series A was the first dryer I ever saw move the skin on my hands with air at a hot-but-not-too-hot temperature. The Dayton doesn’t do that.

The design of the Dayton is also a direct ripoff of the WHDC Series A. Who are they trying to kid?

I HATE DAYTON DRYERS NOW. DAMN IT INTERESTMENT.

By: forty-forty five

forty-forty five — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:10:12 +0000

The airblade is up there with sat nav’s and weak lager as the best inventions of all time.

Surprised that a actual human didn’t feature in the Top 4 – in some establishments a little man will squirt the soap, dry you hands and offer you extras for a small fee…

By: dampness

dampness — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:46:18 +0000

Fascinating read, despite a predictable number one. To be honest Dyson displayed perfect inventing decorum with this one – spot the gap in the market, punish that gap, win.

It is a supreme dryer. No air excretion device even comes close – it really is that good.

A pub I frequent, the Hampshire Bowman, has a dryer named T2000. Sadly, despite it’s Terminator connotations, it can be best described as ‘average’.

I do however have a penchant for the one-arm bandit style paper towel dispenser, if only because it makes the toilet feel like Vegas.