Gadgetory

Dyson is best known for making weird-looking vacuum cleaners and high-velocity hand dryers so what's the British firms next invention world to paraphrase Admiral Ackbar it's a tap this is not just any tap though is Dyson's air blade tap it washes your hands automatically once you trigger an infrared sensor underneath and then it dries them using these air blasting prongs on the side beneath the surface the tap is powered by a brand new Dyson digital motor which spins up to 90,000 rpm in under a second Dyson says the motor took seven years to develop at a cost of nearly 30 million pounds it's money well spent though as Dyson says this monster will get your hands dry in 12 seconds flat I've given it a go in the amount of air that's funneled through the sub one millimetre slit is actually pretty impressive it frees you from the nightmare of traipsing across the bathroom to use the hand dryer but that amazing convenience doesn't come cheap this fancy faucet cost 1000 pounds there's also no way to control the temperature of the water that comes out which means it's tap is probably not ideal for your actual home instead you'd be better off waiting for the air blade tap to start popping up in airports train stations or restaurants which will probably start happening in the next few months in the meantime let us know which piece of household technology you would like to see given a high-tech makeover i'm the Westway for CNET and this is the dyson airblade tap