IL FUTURO
Traditional hair dryer structure (T shape) force both professional and private users to assume an unhealthy and non ergonomic posture. Il Futuro is characterized by an ergonomic foldable handle and a rotating hilt designed to allow a traditional and a lateral handling, like a video camera.
Project description
Traditional hair dryer structure (T shape) force both professional and private users to assume an unhealthy and non ergonomic posture. Hair stylists need to work a lot of hours per day with rised arm and twisted wrist in order to direct airflow parallely to hairs to obtain the best styling performances.
This fix posture cause a lot of temporary diseases and afterward serious pathologies.
Il Futuro is characterized by an ergonomic foldable handle and a rotating hilt designed to allow a traditional and a lateral handling, like a video camera. Levelled soft touch keys.
This blow dryer was produced in 2005 for a small Milan-based business that produces professional hairdryers. We got the idea from watching professionals: we noted they often held the hairdryer by the housing. Reflecting on this, we decided to design a hairdryer with a flexible handle that could be folded away so the dryer could be held like a camcorder, with an ergonomic grip and without being compelled to hold it by the housing, which can get very hot.
The controls are located so as to be convenient with either grip. The dryer was pretty successful on the market and with professionals. In use it revealed a further function we had never foreseen: the flexible handle meant the dryer could be slipped into the user’s belt and this became a habit among hairdressers.
TYPOLOGY: professional hair dryer
COMPANY: Elchim
DATE: 2005
PATENT: deepdesign patent