Harry Gaus, a German physicist, had sued Conair for infringing his patent for a hair dryer safety switch.

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It was funny watching a hardened train surfer open his briefcase and reveal hair brushes and a hair dryer.

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The technology allows researchers to measure magnetic-field changes around the brain while a baby sits under what looks like a beauty-salon hair dryer.

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The vents proceeded to spit out hot air right into my face, a feeling akin to holding a hair dryer inches from my nose.

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He would gladly stay up overnight walking around the pitch with his Turbo 1500W custom made hair dryer attacking any form of bitter frost.

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Slingshot is a vapor-compression water-purification machine that can produce about 30 liters of 100% pure distilled water per hour using the same power as a hair dryer consumes.

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When I plugged a Linksys unit into an outlet near three light dimmers and a hair dryer, file transfer speed was cut in half, but dimmers or dryer alone brought the speed down just 25%, to roughly Wi-Fi rates.

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Who, for example, can name the inventor of the hair-dryer (Chester Beach), the electric washing machine (Alva Fisher) or the ice lolly (Frank Epperson)?

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She raked her fingers through our hair, shook the curls out, then put us under the dryer.

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She styled it with gel, cream and some metal clips, sat us under a dryer for about 20 minutes, then used her fingers to shape our hair.

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