Imagine a device that lets you dry yourself "in minutes" after a shower.
But wait – you're saying you already have one? No, we don't mean a towel. We're talking about the Airobe Luxury Body Dryer – a 9kW heater and fan installed in the bathroom ceiling (think really big hair dryer) that creates an "envelope of rapidly moving warm air" in which you can immerse your wet body.
And don't forget to take the remote control with you, so you can switch between full and half-blast.
This is no April Fool's Day gag; it's real, and it can be yours for $995, plus about $350 installation.
But it gets better: according to the marketing material the Airobe is in fact a money-saving green product, because you won't have to wash any more towels.
The creative calculations used to prove this assume two washes of towels only per week (none if you have an Airobe), the use of a tumble dryer and include fixed water supply fees.
Even using those figures, the break-even time for an Airobe is about 10 years.
Without deducting the water supply fee (after all, you may still want to use water for other purposes), it will take 20 years.
And if you use a clothesline instead of a dryer, the Airobe uses a lot more energy than you do washing towels – part of which is about 10W of standby energy it draws all day, every day.
We could go on. But for us that's enough hot air already to deserve a Shonky.
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