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Sometimes you encounter something novel, and wonder why nobody thought of it before. Case in point, the dyson airblade, encountered in John Lewis here in Edinburgh. Here it is from the side:

The instruction are simple. Place your (wet) hands in, and draw them out slowly. That’s it. It works too - unbelievably fast.

You can just imagine the engineer that created this. There he was in a loo, trying to dry his hands on those awful wind devices, just before nipping off to have his car washed. Sitting in the car as the dryer blew the water from his slowly moving car, a light went off…

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