William Gagnon, vice president of marketing for Excel Dryer Inc., said hand dryers such as the Xlerator XL-BW are no louder than other everyday noises. (Excel Dryer, Inc. - Excel Dryer Inc.) William ...

My 5-year-old twins are terrified of hand dryers. When they enter a public restroom, the first thing they do is size up the drying options. If it's a paper towel dispenser, they visibly relax and go ...

When Nora Keegan would visit a restroom and use a hand dryer, she often thought it sounded too loud. Sometimes she’d notice other children stuffing their fingers in their ears to quiet the roar of the ...

ON SOUTH SUNSET IN OLATHE. WASHING YOUR HANDS FOR 20S KEEPS THE GERMS AWAY. BUT WHEN YOU GO TO DRY THEM IN SOME PLACES, ARE YOU INVITING ANOTHER HEALTH HAZARD? KMBC NINES DONNA PITMAN IS WORKING TO ...

Nora Keegan was only 9 when she started researching why her ears would hurt whenever she either used a toilet hand dryer or stood close to one. And at 13, not only has the teen discovered the reason, ...

A new breed of super-fast hand dryers installed in public restrooms are as loud as a "road drill at close range," a new UK study finds. Announced this week, researchers from Goldsmiths, University of ...

Modern 'jet air' hand dryers dry the hands in seconds, shooting air out at 400mph to blow away moisture. Now commonplace in public toilets, they also produce significantly more noise than older models ...

In the annals of restaurant hand-dryer lore, it’s questionable, probably legend. And it goes like this: The Xlerator, the Daniel Craig of hand dryers, smooth as agate, with the sex appeal of a ...

MIT majority: left to right are Asu Ozdaglar, Paula Hammond, Anne White, Angela Belcher and Evelyn Wang (Courtesy: MIT). If you have ever used one of those automated hand-dryers in public toilets you ...

When they enter a public restroom, the first thing they do is size up the drying options. If it's a paper towel dispenser, they visibly relax and go about their business. But an electric dryer puts ...

By Daniel Johnson 18 July 2013 • 7:33am Academics said the high speed dryers can force hearing aid users to turn off their devices in public toilets, cause discomfort to elderly dementia sufferers, ...