And now for something completely different - Automatic Hand Dryers

I have been meaning to moan about these abominations of technology for a while now. Tonight is my work Christmas party so I have little else to write about today.

Anyway Automatic Hand dryers. You know the ones I am talking about, instead of pressing a nice simple button to make it come on, you put your hand under it and it magically comes on... well at least that is the idea. More often than not they fail to come on and if they do, they go right back off again as soon as you move your hands in the drying motion. Is it so hard to make one that registers your hands properly? Is it even necessary? The only reason I can think of for not having an on button is hygiene and that makes no sense as surely the person pressing the button has just washed their hands, an action synonymous with being hygienic.
The ones that do actually work either throw out cold air or else are take so long to dry that you might as well have left them wet to dry naturally.

Now they are not all bad, in recent years some new ones have come out. The Dyson Airblade springs to mind as a hand dryer built by people who know what they are doing. It is brilliantly simply. You put your hands in all the way and thin jets of warm air shoot out at you as you pull your hands up the air forces the water off your hands and you have nice dry hands in 10 seconds.
I have seen another similar concept to this but instead of a thin stream of jet propelled air, there are hundreds of tiny pin holes which give a good all round stream of tiny jets of air. I am not sure which one is more effective but they are both pretty good.
Also in a more traditional style of hand dryer is the XLERATOR Hand Dryer which is a more normal idea with a bit of modern thinking. First they make an automatic sensor that works, then they supercharge the blower motor with a jet. This is so powerful that you can see your skin being blown around and it looks like your hand is mutating just like the hand of 80's TV character Manimal when he changed in to a Panther or something.

Can I tie Hand dryers in with beer, since that is the theme of this blog? Why yes I can because alcohol being a Diuretic means you will spend a lot of time in the bathroom making yourself dehydrated and you will get to see the quality of your favourite watering hole in how it keeps the bathroom.