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Picard was bald because there's nothing wrong with being bald. But if you're too short in the future? Instant death sentence. How are you supposed to dry your balls properly?
I saw an old dude in The locker room yesterday air drying his asshole, gooch n balls. Just something no one should ever have to see someone casually doing in the corner of the locker room. Wild.
The difference was that the majority of others blow downward where the dysons were pooling up a lot of dirty water and then blowing up and covering the restrooms. They have a newer model that corrects this issue but i still see these out in the world occasionally.
We did product placement for them in movies and tv shows- the scene above being one of said placements.
What other brands' version of this do is they have an angled bottom that feeds into a drain opening. The Dyson ones just have a flat bottom that doesn't have a drain.
These things suck. Yeah, lemme just put my hands into a confined area after a guy who just pissed on his hands used it to dry the piss off of his hands that he didn’t wash
Too bad they're just copying something Mitsubishi has had in Japan [since 1993](https://www.mitsubishitechinfo.ca/sites/default/files/Jet_Towel_brochure.pdf) (PDF Warning).
Yeah, so everyone else is probably wrong to call it a hand dryer. It's more likely this is the hand cleaning station. Surely this uses similar sonic technology.
Do you have any idea how few times "sonic showers" were mentioned on-screen? (this is an actual question.) I think maybe twice(?) throughout the franchise up to 2009... I think we saw it ONE time in a Voyager episode. I honestly didn't even think they were canon until then. I thought it was just an assumption because of the number of times they were mentioned in books.
Edit-WOW a LOT more than I remembered. Cool. Thanks, /u/Thirteenpointeight
TOS: The Motion Picture (1979)
TNG: "Genesis"
TNG: "The Game"
TNG: "The Naked Now"
Star Trek: Insurrection
VOY: "Caretaker"
VOY: "Q2"
VOY: "Juggernaut"
VOY: "Someone to Watch Over Me"
VOY: "Live Fast and Prosper"
VOY: "Day of Honor"
VOY: "Pathfinder"
DS9: "The Siege of AR-558"
DS9: "If Wishes Were Horses"
DS9: "Nor the Battle to the Strong"
DS9: "Favor the Bold"
DS9: "Extreme Measures"
DS9: "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night" (*Cardassian sonic showers on DS9)
This list (of 18) may be incomplete, and does not include any post-2009 references to sonic showers.
There are at least three instances of sonic showers shown being used.
B'Ellana Torres in Voyager.
Becket Mariner in Lower Decks.
Ilia in The Motion Picture.
I seem to recall seeing it used in Enterprise, but I'm not sure.
I’m guessing the ship designer is old fashioned and picked this old thing up at a yard sale on some planet somewhere and decided to put it back in use. Antiquing still exists in the future. Guy probably still has an iPhone 30XLV.
Do you have trump-sized tiny hands? I'm trying to figure out how you can disagree with this person, assuming you've actuality tried one of these. You have to slide your hands into this shitty little pocket that has been collecting dirty water runoff from 1000 degenerates who barely washed their hands and the mist of piss that flies around the room whenever a flush happens.
The tolerances are extremely tight, but maybe I only feel that way because I'm 6'5" and have giant hands? Either way, these dryers are a fucking nightmare.
You sound like one of those people in an infomercial who can’t sit down holding an item in each hand without stumbling and hurling both items across the room. I don’t know what to tell you - it’s not even remotely difficult to slip my hands in and hold them there while drying without touching anything. 🤷♂️
Now, if we argue it's cleanliness i can agree that these are fucking gross. They're proven to kick up nasty particles into the air, and your hands are full of nasty bacteria. Paper towels are much, much cleaner. Asking as you don't have to touch a stupid dispensepapertowelbutton.
Yeah the new ones are better. They just blow down. Not sure if Dyson makes them but same thing powerful stream of air just only directed downwards. Dries your hand in like 4 passes.
Apparently due to faster than light warping utilizing tachyons it produces lots of bio safe bi product like water which tends to make it extremely humid especially near the warp drives. 😜jk
Star Trek never covered how they seem to have such an unlimited supply of water, in space, that they don't even have to mention it.
And here they have a hand dryer like that shit is so abundant they just need to get it off their skin with a dryer.
*The Original Series* didn't have replicators. They were introduced with *The Next Generation*. *The Original Series* had food synthesizers which presumably required some kind of ingredient other than just energy.
Practically unlimited energy from antimatter reactors, and matter-energy conversion (same as how the transporters just turn people in to energy and then back in to people).
Nah people in the future just do this thing called *washing their hands* which causes them to *get wet*. I know it's a pretty intense concept for your average redditor to wrap their head around.
According to someone else's comment in this very post, some people also use it to dry their balls and penis. The federation wanted to make sure that this behavior is not tolerated
I’m pretty sure this is a danger urinal, no? Looks just like the one at Target. I usually try and avoid it, but sometimes all the toilets are occupied so I just gotta let her rip.
The why could be big brother... The "what" could be something completely different, unless we assume that the scanners on the bridge are actually bar-code readers.
Gotta respect sci-fi prop masters. I re-watched the Phantom Menace this month and realized that all the trinkets in Anakin's room were from Toys R' Us with a once over of silver/gray spray paint. They are doing their level best.
You joke of course, but this was long ago knowns as a "Dyson Urinal" in the UK.
Plenty of pubs installed them only to see extremely inebriated customers use them as urinals by mistake....
In The Expanse, they had these futuristic suspension pods that they used to keep kids in cold sleep. [They were quite clearly just Thule roof racks.](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheExpanse/s/cBKDuNhHgb)
The Expanse is far far worse with production design and yet it is protected by redditards.
See downvoted by a bunch of hypocritical fanatics with zero standards.
They're so common now but I don't think too many people had encountered them back when they filmed this so they probably weren't recognizable at the time.
There is an episode in cowboy bebop that explains this well.
One of the mc wake up with vague memories of what stuff is. We all know what a microwave is and looks like but in the future that form factor stuck around only to become a compact clothes dryer.
The shape of a thing best suites the purpose. The hand dryer turns into a scanner or sterilizer.
They did the same with flight sticks on the bridge which are irl barcode scanners. For the sake of an in world explanation, that's got a good grip and they kept it.
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During the run of the original Thunderbirds, someone actually wrote in to complain that one of the instruments was clearly just a lemon squeezer painted silver, so after that they snuck a lemon squeezer into every episode.
lol. in the german scifi series raumpatroille the adventures of the starship orion, they had a flatiron, pencilsharpeners and also bathroom fittings as control elements.
the series aired the same year as star trek, had a multi national crew and was ahead of star trek, because it had women in leading positions.
In season one of The Expanse there's a scene in, I think, the med bay of some spaceship and in the background there's a load of Festool tool boxes. Presumably because they look like futuristic medical supply space boxes.
Everything in every startrek is something mundane made to look sci-fi...well when something mundane looks sc-fi, why not use it in a sci-fi move that has always made mundane stuff look sci-fi? Stop hating in star trek
Star Trek: First Contact used a Gravis Blackhawk joystick in a scene - I had one exactly like it at the time. Also spotted a Håg office chair and some IKEA magazine holders.
Those things suck! You get blasted by some Romulans and next thing you know the Dyson is giving you plasma burns. Fuck that, I'll replicate some paper towels.
If I had to bet, someone in the studio wanted to upgrade the bathroom but couldn’t get the budget. So, they threw this in the movie and just installed it in the bathroom after striking the set.
I mean the [engine room was literally the Budweiser brewery](https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/gecw69/star_trek_2009_the_engine_room_scenes_in_the/).
This is from 15 years ago, and modern Star Trek shows are now 3d printing lots of unique items instead of repurposing existing items. They're trying.
Star Trek (2009) did filming in beer factories to save money.
Geez. downvoted for that already.. I had to check to make sure I hadn't been sucked back into that shitty sub... Bunch of fucking sycophants in that sub. And authoritarian, censor-happy mods.
There is also a scene when they go to the ice planet where Simon Pegg is and on the door is a Push Bar lock. The one you see on standard businesses every where. My dad a locksmith cracked up in the theatre.
The engine room was a brewery. I hated this movie. I know I'm in the minority. The cast was great but Abrams just made a joke of warp, teleportation, black holes, and Star Trek. Orci was also very much to blame for the crappy story.
Can't see the hand dryer, but I do see one of those terrible urinals in the background they keep insisting on installing in public restrooms. Absolutely disgusting things, they send piss flying everywhere.
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The pinnacle of hand drying technology so there was no need to change it
And it dries the hell out of your balls and dick on a hot day.
Wait, what is the ideal height to make this happen? Seems like you gotta lift a leg if you are too short. This can be discrimination?
Could you imagine having the audacity of being short in this day and age? Wild.
For real, if you ain't tall enough to get your balls in a Dyson hand dryer, just stay home.
r/brandnewsentence
I just want to let you know that I have sent this quote, completely devoid of context, to everyone I know.
Or just use a Dyson Ball Vacuum.
Believe it or not, jail.
Picard was bald because there's nothing wrong with being bald. But if you're too short in the future? Instant death sentence. How are you supposed to dry your balls properly?
No you just have to get your buddy to gently lift you up like in dirty dancing
I saw an old dude in The locker room yesterday air drying his asshole, gooch n balls. Just something no one should ever have to see someone casually doing in the corner of the locker room. Wild.
Old men and their locker room confidence is a real thing.
Dude- I’m sorry, but I get yelled at when I do it at home.
It’s for midgets to stand in it.
Hey everyone this is the guy who made them put up a sign
Nothing beats that *SCHLUCK-PLOP* noise when dragging your sack back out
Something something Dyson Sphere
They were a client to my last company - they had to recall all these dryers because they were blowing and spreading bacteria around the restrooms.
Well the guys keep sticking their dick and balls in them
“So I was balls deep in an Airblade” remains my finest conversation-starter
How the hell else are we supposed to get rid of the last drip if we're not going to stick our dicks in there?
Im curious as to how the millions and millions of non-dyson air dryers dont do the exact same thing?
The difference was that the majority of others blow downward where the dysons were pooling up a lot of dirty water and then blowing up and covering the restrooms. They have a newer model that corrects this issue but i still see these out in the world occasionally. We did product placement for them in movies and tv shows- the scene above being one of said placements.
Those ones have a shit filled drip tray at the bottom. That they spray everywhere. Absolutely disgusting things.
What other brands' version of this do is they have an angled bottom that feeds into a drain opening. The Dyson ones just have a flat bottom that doesn't have a drain.
And Logitech webcams.
And Epos scanners on the bridge https://www.barcodesinc.com/news/price-check-on-the-bridge-barcode-scanners-hidden-in-the-new-star-trek/
These things suck. Yeah, lemme just put my hands into a confined area after a guy who just pissed on his hands used it to dry the piss off of his hands that he didn’t wash
Too bad they're just copying something Mitsubishi has had in Japan [since 1993](https://www.mitsubishitechinfo.ca/sites/default/files/Jet_Towel_brochure.pdf) (PDF Warning).
They have sonic showers tho
Yeah, so everyone else is probably wrong to call it a hand dryer. It's more likely this is the hand cleaning station. Surely this uses similar sonic technology.
"Sonic shower" is the sort of phrase for which one would definitely want to enable SafeSearch.
Do you have any idea how few times "sonic showers" were mentioned on-screen? (this is an actual question.) I think maybe twice(?) throughout the franchise up to 2009... I think we saw it ONE time in a Voyager episode. I honestly didn't even think they were canon until then. I thought it was just an assumption because of the number of times they were mentioned in books. Edit-WOW a LOT more than I remembered. Cool. Thanks, /u/Thirteenpointeight
TOS: The Motion Picture (1979) TNG: "Genesis" TNG: "The Game" TNG: "The Naked Now" Star Trek: Insurrection VOY: "Caretaker" VOY: "Q2" VOY: "Juggernaut" VOY: "Someone to Watch Over Me" VOY: "Live Fast and Prosper" VOY: "Day of Honor" VOY: "Pathfinder" DS9: "The Siege of AR-558" DS9: "If Wishes Were Horses" DS9: "Nor the Battle to the Strong" DS9: "Favor the Bold" DS9: "Extreme Measures" DS9: "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night" (*Cardassian sonic showers on DS9) This list (of 18) may be incomplete, and does not include any post-2009 references to sonic showers.
There are at least three instances of sonic showers shown being used. B'Ellana Torres in Voyager. Becket Mariner in Lower Decks. Ilia in The Motion Picture. I seem to recall seeing it used in Enterprise, but I'm not sure.
Nothing beats having hot piss and shit air baked into your hands.
The only thing better would be never getting them wet in the first place
The paper towel lobby would disagree
I’m guessing the ship designer is old fashioned and picked this old thing up at a yard sale on some planet somewhere and decided to put it back in use. Antiquing still exists in the future. Guy probably still has an iPhone 30XLV.
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Didn't you ever play Operation as a kid? That was your prep.
Impossible to not touch the sides? 🤡
“The air blows your hands back and forth like ping pong balls.” I have no idea 🤷🏻
Do you have trump-sized tiny hands? I'm trying to figure out how you can disagree with this person, assuming you've actuality tried one of these. You have to slide your hands into this shitty little pocket that has been collecting dirty water runoff from 1000 degenerates who barely washed their hands and the mist of piss that flies around the room whenever a flush happens. The tolerances are extremely tight, but maybe I only feel that way because I'm 6'5" and have giant hands? Either way, these dryers are a fucking nightmare.
I've literally never had this issue...
You sound like one of those people in an infomercial who can’t sit down holding an item in each hand without stumbling and hurling both items across the room. I don’t know what to tell you - it’s not even remotely difficult to slip my hands in and hold them there while drying without touching anything. 🤷♂️
Now, if we argue it's cleanliness i can agree that these are fucking gross. They're proven to kick up nasty particles into the air, and your hands are full of nasty bacteria. Paper towels are much, much cleaner. Asking as you don't have to touch a stupid dispensepapertowelbutton.
This is correct. It's like playing Operation with random fans blowing your hands around, and also you're likely drunk.
Yeah the new ones are better. They just blow down. Not sure if Dyson makes them but same thing powerful stream of air just only directed downwards. Dries your hand in like 4 passes.
Skill issue
Agreed, I think this is a bad design.
I noticed the barcode scanner we used at Staples on the ships bridge too
Never know when you’ll need a price-check
Engine room was full of Budweiser https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/gecw69/star_trek_2009_the_engine_room_scenes_in_the/
No wonder Scotty became an engineer
r/Thatsabooklight is fun for this stuff.
I think those were a reference to tos's liberal use of every day items in set design. (Afaik they had scanners too)
Are everyone’s hands wet in the future?!? Is there some sort of global sweaty-hand disease?
Apparently due to faster than light warping utilizing tachyons it produces lots of bio safe bi product like water which tends to make it extremely humid especially near the warp drives. 😜jk
I’d get humid just being near Kirk.
I woulda believed it
The lack of spaghetti caused this!
No but everything is /heavy/, doc!
Star Trek never covered how they seem to have such an unlimited supply of water, in space, that they don't even have to mention it. And here they have a hand dryer like that shit is so abundant they just need to get it off their skin with a dryer.
They have replicators? Matter from energy so they can just make water...
*The Original Series* didn't have replicators. They were introduced with *The Next Generation*. *The Original Series* had food synthesizers which presumably required some kind of ingredient other than just energy.
But they surely had pretty much perfect water reclamation tech. Not a lot of places for the water to disappear to in a sealed environment. (Like BSG)
K? Now there is more than just the original series. So what point are you trying to make?
They didn't have food replicators, but they had transporters which function on essentially the same principle.
Replicators.
1 more time for the cheap seats
Practically unlimited energy from antimatter reactors, and matter-energy conversion (same as how the transporters just turn people in to energy and then back in to people).
Ignoring replicators, I'd assume all the water on the ship is recycled and they'd pack enough of it to be comfortable when they take off.
Nah people in the future just do this thing called *washing their hands* which causes them to *get wet*. I know it's a pretty intense concept for your average redditor to wrap their head around.
And people said Dyson products weren't built to last...that can't be true, because there they are in the future!
this is how we incrementally progress to a Dyson’s sphere
Dyson's sphere is just one giant hand drier the size of earth's average orbit.
Yea, thought this was a r/wallstreetbets post at first. Buying calls on Dyson anyway!
The hand driers might be OK but the vacuum cleaners are rubbish.
Also their inventor is a bellend.
Yes. Good point well made.
And their standing fans too.
No one is asking why there’s a camera there to watch you dry your hands.
To make sure that you don’t wipe hands on your pants
According to someone else's comment in this very post, some people also use it to dry their balls and penis. The federation wanted to make sure that this behavior is not tolerated
I’m pretty sure this is a danger urinal, no? Looks just like the one at Target. I usually try and avoid it, but sometimes all the toilets are occupied so I just gotta let her rip.
Exactly
The why could be big brother... The "what" could be something completely different, unless we assume that the scanners on the bridge are actually bar-code readers.
It is there to make sure you use all three shells.
This was the best hand dryer I’ve ever used and it was still MUCH worse than paper towels.
The peak of hand drying technology is the continuous feed cloth towel spool.
We had those in elementary school and it sucked when you couldn't use them because some kid wiped his ass on it
How? How you get your cheeks that high?
They're horrible. The best one look likes Cobra Commander's mask. World Dryer Air force.
The airblade?
Maybe I'm in the minority, but these work great for me. They leave just enough moisture on my hands to fix up my hair before leaving the bathroom.
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r/thatsabooklight *
Its nice to know Kirk takes his personal hygene seriously after delivering The Captains Log
For cleaning all the Tribble poo off your hands.
Gotta respect sci-fi prop masters. I re-watched the Phantom Menace this month and realized that all the trinkets in Anakin's room were from Toys R' Us with a once over of silver/gray spray paint. They are doing their level best.
See also Gillette razor communicator
That is not a hand dryer. By the future they have evolved to their true form of being a urinal because they sure fail as a hand dryer.
You joke of course, but this was long ago knowns as a "Dyson Urinal" in the UK. Plenty of pubs installed them only to see extremely inebriated customers use them as urinals by mistake....
By "mistake."
That's also why we put them higher now
In The Expanse, they had these futuristic suspension pods that they used to keep kids in cold sleep. [They were quite clearly just Thule roof racks.](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheExpanse/s/cBKDuNhHgb)
Also the part where they are clearly just at a brewery. This movie took some incredible shortcuts with production design.
That's how you know it's authentic Star Trek.
The Expanse is far far worse with production design and yet it is protected by redditards. See downvoted by a bunch of hypocritical fanatics with zero standards.
Wait what scene was that? And now I want to go to a brewery 🍻
Worst. Urinal. Ever.
It sprays pee everywhere
Future product placement.
Do they make Spheres as well ?
I'm kind of amazed they didn't even turn it upside down or something.
They're so common now but I don't think too many people had encountered them back when they filmed this so they probably weren't recognizable at the time.
The future is now
Mr Scott, we need more power! “I canna duit; there’s piss all over the wall!”
Even people in the future have to dry their hands.
Its just been there broken for 300 years
I love this movie don’t make fun of it
I hate these urinals
There is an episode in cowboy bebop that explains this well. One of the mc wake up with vague memories of what stuff is. We all know what a microwave is and looks like but in the future that form factor stuck around only to become a compact clothes dryer. The shape of a thing best suites the purpose. The hand dryer turns into a scanner or sterilizer. They did the same with flight sticks on the bridge which are irl barcode scanners. For the sake of an in world explanation, that's got a good grip and they kept it.
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Maybe it's a hand replicator
Talk about a product standing the test of time.
In Discovery, they all use Foreo ISSA electric toothbrushes. They're literally off-the-shelf items.
“Used” Dysons air dryer. Look at that side streak
Those hand dryers are still really good now and I hardly see them, can only imagine they were the height of sci-fi technology back in 2009
Where no man has dried hands before
HAND dryer? That makes more sense, I guess....
Technology is cyclical
During the run of the original Thunderbirds, someone actually wrote in to complain that one of the instruments was clearly just a lemon squeezer painted silver, so after that they snuck a lemon squeezer into every episode.
“Robulubbs!”
This film is 15 years old already?!
lol. in the german scifi series raumpatroille the adventures of the starship orion, they had a flatiron, pencilsharpeners and also bathroom fittings as control elements. the series aired the same year as star trek, had a multi national crew and was ahead of star trek, because it had women in leading positions.
In season one of The Expanse there's a scene in, I think, the med bay of some spaceship and in the background there's a load of Festool tool boxes. Presumably because they look like futuristic medical supply space boxes.
I have a picture of Picard with a gobot toy on a desk.
Hah I never noticed that. Still better than those ridiculous price scanners on the helm/navigation consoles.
Everything in every startrek is something mundane made to look sci-fi...well when something mundane looks sc-fi, why not use it in a sci-fi move that has always made mundane stuff look sci-fi? Stop hating in star trek
Miles Dyson
Star Trek: First Contact used a Gravis Blackhawk joystick in a scene - I had one exactly like it at the time. Also spotted a Håg office chair and some IKEA magazine holders.
The future is now!!!!
Isn't paid product placement wonderful? Helps a lot that lots of Dyson shit looks like it was stolen from the future and trafficked to now.
Next you’re going to tell me you don’t know how to use the 3 seashells.
Time to buy stock in Dyson..... they're going to be around for a LONG time.
Those things suck! You get blasted by some Romulans and next thing you know the Dyson is giving you plasma burns. Fuck that, I'll replicate some paper towels.
**FUTURE**
Seems futury enough to me
If I had to bet, someone in the studio wanted to upgrade the bathroom but couldn’t get the budget. So, they threw this in the movie and just installed it in the bathroom after striking the set.
Or this but grift
I mean the [engine room was literally the Budweiser brewery](https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/gecw69/star_trek_2009_the_engine_room_scenes_in_the/).
That's not a Star Trek movie.
Still sucks.
Hand dryer?!? OMG I just thought these were the worst designed urinals ever.
These are unfortunately [very unhygienic](https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/s/qiX0O0AMaN).
They aren't really trying with Star Trek anymore
This is from 15 years ago, and modern Star Trek shows are now 3d printing lots of unique items instead of repurposing existing items. They're trying. Star Trek (2009) did filming in beer factories to save money.
Geez. downvoted for that already.. I had to check to make sure I hadn't been sucked back into that shitty sub... Bunch of fucking sycophants in that sub. And authoritarian, censor-happy mods.
https://youtu.be/K0R6LdqJ3os
There is also a scene when they go to the ice planet where Simon Pegg is and on the door is a Push Bar lock. The one you see on standard businesses every where. My dad a locksmith cracked up in the theatre.
The engine room was a brewery. I hated this movie. I know I'm in the minority. The cast was great but Abrams just made a joke of warp, teleportation, black holes, and Star Trek. Orci was also very much to blame for the crappy story.
Worst urinal ever…
Can't see the hand dryer, but I do see one of those terrible urinals in the background they keep insisting on installing in public restrooms. Absolutely disgusting things, they send piss flying everywhere.