It Blows

http://www.slate.com/id/2193740/?y=1/

On the old green issue, I saw this article that talks about whether those hand dryers in the bathroom are more eco-friendly than paper towels. Their conclusion is that the blowers are the lesser of two evils. Dang. Not what I wanted to hear.

Cause let's face it - those things are just sick. It's not happy, fresh outside air that the dryer is blowing on your hands, it's bathroom air. All the whatever that's floating in the bathrooms is being sucked into that little box to be moderately heated and blown straight onto your own two little mitts. Which I should point out, you will be taking with you when you leave the bathroom. (I'll pause while we all picture a rubber bracelet-bangled 80s-style Madonna blasting her face and pits in germ air in Desperately Seeking Susan - oh ugh.) And considering that the bathroom cootie blaster has been around for a million years, I doubt there's some sort of ultra-violet light built in that sanitizes the air about to blow the hands that you were trying to get clean just 2-seconds ago in the sink. Self-defeating, no?

I saw that the guy who built the Dyson (uhm, Mr. Dyson?) vacuum cleaner had invented a super sucker to replace the cootie blower. Sucks the water right off your hands. I have yet to see one of those babies in action, though. I think that's some technology that needs to filter into the population pretty freaking quickly. Save the trees. Kill the cooties.