New hand dryer to reduce cross contamination?

Washroom air, contains harmful fecal germs and is laden with bacteria, is heated and blown onto people's shoes, clothes and freshly-washed hands by normal air dryers that currently operate. What's more they take a long time (over 35 seconds) to work, so people generally try and help the process along by wringing their hands and so adding more germs to the mix from their skin and from under their finger nails.

Paper towels are the only other option offered in washrooms. They are of course expensive and environmentally unfriendly. In the US, for example, 2% of total landfill consists of paper towels.

So who should come to the rescue (again) but James Dyson, the design guru who pioneered the bagless vacuum cleaner - that boon to the office cleaners and of course house wives and house husbands.

His new invention, currently being trialed in two hospitals in England manages the job of drying hands in ten seconds.

The new hand dryer, developed in Wiltshire, will be built in Nanjin at a relatively hi-tech factory that currently makes radar for the Chinese military.

I guess the only question that remains is whether the Chinese will actually develop a form of radar that can determine whether there are any germs left on people's hands after the drying process - just to be sure!