June 4, 2008

Dyson Airblade


I know Daryl and I love our Dysons. (Don’t ask Amy, she cusses at it every time she uses it.) Did you know they make a kick ass from the future hand dryer?

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  1. Laurie on June 4th, 2008 at 10:40 am

    They have those at Water Tower place! They rock.

  2. BJ Clark on June 4th, 2008 at 11:32 am

    I used one of those things at the Oregon Convention Center this weekend. Pretty cool actually. I don’t know if it worked as well as I expected, but it works. You just have to move your hands REALLY SLOWLY as you pull them out.

  3. Daryl Scroggins on June 4th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

    Oh shit that just scares me. Remember that clip of the guy on the deck of an aircraft carrier getting sucked into a jet engine? I’m not drying my hands in the lawn mower bag and I’m not drying them in that thing. No offense to Mr. Dyson.

    And I actually cuss at our vacuum sometimes too. I panic every time the thing sucks up the fringe at the edge of a rug and lets out a sound like a transmission that has just disintegrated at 160 mph.

  4. Amy Mabli on June 4th, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    I had high hopes for our Dyson vacuum cleaner, mainly because I figured that it would suck harder than other vacuums in addition to not losing suction like other vacuums. I curse at it and tell it that it sucks, even though the poor thing was never supposed to do those things. Maybe I’ve been unfair to it and I should go apologize.

  5. Sheila Ryan on June 4th, 2008 at 1:36 pm

    You might give it another chance. I can understand your disappointment if it’s turned out that it doesn’t suck as hard as you wanted it to. But maybe it just sucks differently, and with a little communication, everybody could be satisfied.

  6. Mike D. on June 4th, 2008 at 1:50 pm

    I enjoy how Dyson has positioned itself as the Apple of the home appliance world, Mr. Dyson with his accent and his turtlenecks, challenging the status quo with a vacuum that “Sucks Different.” I imagine his power lunches with Steve Jobs and Dean Kamen.

    “So, it’ll have centrifugal suction, a touch screen–”

    “and be gyroscopically-stabilized for easy riding.”

    “All rounded corners.”

    “Well, of COURSE rounded corners!”

    [Laughter]

  7. Jeff Ventura on June 8th, 2008 at 1:13 pm

    They have these at the Somerset Collection in Troy, MI. They are literally amazing. My son asks to go to the bathroom whenever we’re in the mall just so he can use the Airblades. I am not kidding. My son knows his industrial design, even at 3.5 years old.

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