New technology combines bathroom scales with a drying function
In everyday life, various technologies already help to simplify certain routines. Now this trend has reached the bathroom too, as the new body dryer is intended to replace the daily ritual of towelling off. The device is a combination of ordinary bathroom scales and a hairdryer, fitted with an extra feature. This can be compared with a high-speed air dryer or simply a conventional hairdryer. Just add a little more power to the device, and what was originally used to dry hair now works for the whole body.
There are advantages and disadvantages
The body dryer is more than a crazy idea from America, as the advantages are actually obvious. It is intended to prevent contact with bacteria and germs that settle on a towel when it is used several times. In addition, there is of course less dirty laundry to wash. A towel has to be changed and washed regularly, whereas the innovative body dryer requires no such effort. Apart from that, the device is multifunctional and replaces the bathroom scales. Slippery wet floors after getting out of the bathtub are also a thing of the past with the body dryer.
The body dryer is simple to use
The working principle of the new invention is very simple. The body dryer not only looks like a set of scales, it is also used in exactly the same way. After climbing out of the sitting bathtub, for example, you step onto it and are blown with either cold or warm air from five jets. This dries the body within 30 seconds, and you can then get dressed straight away.
There are currently a few prototypes on the market which, according to the inventors Tyler Overk and Jason Ryu, are performing promisingly. In principle, the body dryer can be seen as a natural development of the traditional hand dryer.
Body dryer or towel: that is the question
If you love wrapping yourself in a cosy towel after a bath or shower and enjoying the moment, you are unlikely to take much pleasure in the high-tech dryer. Anyone who turns washing into a pampering ritual will probably continue to reach for fabric rather than a technical device, if only for the sake of the right atmosphere.
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