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...kind. It takes any input of water - you don't even have to pretest it - and what comes out is pure, distilled water. It meets the U.S. pharmacopoeia standard for water that can be injected. It's astounding. And it takes one-third the power of a handheld dryer to make a thousand liters of water a day, which, based on the World Health Organization's standards, is enough for a village of 100 people. And if you've got a few hundred people, you put a couple of machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Segway Sage Speaks | 8/14/2006 | See Source »

When he’s not on the road, Lee’s diversions include shooting staples off his balcony, tempting the wrath of the eco-friendly in winter by heating his bedding with a 1400-watt blow dryer, decorating with Audrey Hepburn posters (Sepah attributes the obsession to Lee’s “puritanical perceptions of beauty”), and justifying his weather-inappropriate clothing (shorts, sometimes accessorized with a safari hat) to any and all who will listen...

Author: By Véronique E. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Iconoclast Claims Warm Fuzzy Side, Sarcastically | 12/7/2005 | See Source »

...Chawla says, gesturing to the ground, now covered with glass shards, and tattered bits of clothing; one cycle-rickshaw, partially destroyed, lies amidst the mess. Windows of several nearby building have shattered; and the sign-boards above the shops have been bent backwards, as if by a giant hair-dryer blowing at them. Chawla says, "I saw one child which couldn't have been more than six months old, which was dead; its body had been split by the blast. And then there was a family of shoppers, all dead-a mother, the children, all lying spread on the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Delhi Bombings: An On-Scene Account | 10/29/2005 | See Source »

...just be your microwave that's jamming your cell phone. Electronic items can interfere with one another, which means that your dryer could block your cordless-phone signal--and that your amazing new wireless keyboard could be slowing your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anarchy in the Airwaves | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

...Another oft-used example is of two Maryland men who supposedly put a hot-air balloon into a commercial laundry dryer. The machine exploded, injuring both men, who won $885,000 from the maker of the dryer. What actually happened is that the men took the balloon to a hospital that had laundry equipment designed for industrial purposes. The dryer vibrated violently and then exploded. Both men were injured; one required microsurgery to reattach his hand, which was almost severed. The dryer's maker had a patent on a device that would have stopped the dryer automatically if it began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sorry, Your Policy Is Canceled | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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