The award winning Dyson Airblade Tap hand dryer washes and dries hands with no need to leave the sink.
It has been installed at the EDF Energy London Eye – a place that welcomes millions of pairs of hands every year.
Tourists don’t just come to London to see the sights – they also use the city’s loos along the way.
Dirty hands need washing and drying fast – otherwise the washroom environment becomes crowded and people simply give up. But conventional hand dryers are slow and ineffective, relying on inefficient heating elements to dry hands – taking up to 45 seconds. Washroom air, which contains fecal germs and bacteria, is heated up and blown unfiltered onto people’s shoes, clothes and… freshly washed hands. Paper towels are costly on the environment and can end up creating a washroom mess.
That’s why the London Eye has Airblade technology in its washrooms.
The Dyson Airblade Tap hand dryer washes hands and then dries them using clean filtered air in just 12 seconds. It passes washroom air through a HEPA filter to remove 99.9% of bacteria before it’s blown onto hands. And there’s no need to touch a thing – it uses infrared sensors. Job done.
Infrared sensors pinpoint hand positions and release water from the tap stem. Once hands are wet and drying is requested, integrated circuitry computes the information and activates the latest Dyson digital motor, creating two high velocity sheets of air on the tap’s branches.
Davey Barrett, Show Services Manager said: “As an iconic global landmark, the London Eye needs to meet high expectations of quality – and that extends to our washrooms. Installing the Dyson Airblade™ Tap hand dryer has allowed us to achieve this.”
Since getting full distribution of the Airblade Tap hand dryer in October 2013, Dyson has taken its technology to a number of other high profile locations: Glasgow Airport - the first location to get Airblade technology on Tap, high footfall and busy 24-7; Serpentine Sackler Gallery - designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Zaha Hadid, opened in September 2013 it uses Airblade Tap technology.