Those hot air hand dryers in bathrooms may be blowing it. And by it, I mean bacteria and other gunk. Yet, another study is conjuring up visions of a swirling cyclone of bacteria and other microbes.

Both hand dryers and paper towels carry an environmental cost, so the Lantern’s peers typically advise folks to wipe their hands on ... a typical warm-air dryer uses around 2,200 watts of ...

In a study comparing three hand-drying methods (paper towels, warm air dryers and jet air dryers at ultrahigh speeds), scientists found that jet dryers dispersed 20 times more virus than the warm ...

Our readers have detailed and informative advice to offer here – although not all agree on whether a hot air dryer should be used in the first place ...

Using a jet air dryer dispersed 1,300 times more viruses than just drying with paper towels, and the jet dyer spread 60 times more than your average box-like air dryers.

He wanted a hand dryer that could do the job fast, in 10 to 15 seconds, versus the usual 30 to 45 seconds or more. That was in 2001. The Excel Dryer, Inc. plant in East Longmeadow, Ma on Thursday ...

We have to hand it to air dryers—specifically high-speed versions, like the Dyson Airblade and Excel Xlerator. Germ-wise, paper towels and dryers are basically tied.

I have a question about hot-air hand dryers. My friends think that the dryers spread many germs, so some of them do not wash their hands. I now carry a paper towel in my back pocket to use after ...

"The air in the Dyson hand dryer manipulates the hair causing the ends to bend, giving that bouncy blowout look. This look is similar to that of using the Dyson Air Wrap , a machine that retails ...

EAST LONGMEADOW, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Excel Dryer has upgraded to electrostatic HEPA filtration, which is an optional feature for their XLERATOR ® hand dryer models and is now available in its ...