The explosive power of hand dryers may be blasting bacteria and other nasty stuff infinitely further across the room than any other hand drying method. A team of researchers from the University of ...

They might feel like the most hygienic option when it comes to drying hands (after all they’ve been installed in most public toilets) but hand dryers have been found to blast E.coli and traces of ...

It’s long been suspected that hand dryers, especially those quick-drying ones that blast hot air known as jet dryers, are actually way worse at keeping our hands and bathrooms free of disease-causing ...

CNET UK goes hands-on with Dyson's latest contribution to hygiene, the Airblade Tap -- a combination faucet and hand dryer. Luke Westaway Senior editor Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and ...

Hot-air hand dryers in public bathrooms 'suck in' bacteria from flushing toilets, new research suggests. Previous studies show such dryers can disperse germs from people's hands on to surrounding ...

Washing your grubby mitts is one of the all-time best ways to cut your chances of getting sick and spreading harmful germs to others. But using the hot-air dryers common in bathrooms can undo that ...

Dyson Airblade hand dryers, increasingly ubiquitous in public bathrooms, propel airborne bacteria off the hands in levels up to 27 times higher than paper towels, new research shows. "The results ...