Dyson’s New Hair Straightener Makes use of Sizzling Air As a substitute of Steel Plates

Dyson stepped outdoors its consolation zone for its third hair-styling product in the Corrale: a $500 cordless flat iron that makes use of versatile plates to significantly cut back the danger of warmth harm to hair. With the Dyson Airstrait, the corporate’s created one other hair straightening system that takes benefit of what it does finest: transferring air round at excessive speeds.

The Corrale’s progressive versatile plates allowed the straightener to raised collect hair and extra evenly apply warmth and stress, which permits it to function at a lot decrease temperatures than a standard flat iron does. Much less warmth meant much less harm over time.

The brand new Dyson Airstrait nonetheless seems like a standard flat iron, with a design that clamps onto hair because it’s drawn by way of. However as a substitute of the clamp itself heating up, the Airstrait has vents alongside each edges that blast a “exactly angled high-pressure blade of air” down and into the hair—drying and straightening it multi function cross.

The Airstait is powered by certainly one of Dyson’s Hyperdymium motors, which has a 13-blade impeller that spins at as much as 106,000 RPM. Just 27-millimeters in measurement, the motor’s sufficiently small to suit into the Airstrait’s deal with. Additionally buried away contained in the straightener are “glass bead thermistors” that “measure the temperature of the airflow as much as 30 occasions per second” to make sure the temperature of the air blade doesn’t get hotter than what the consumer has chosen.

The Dyson Airstrait presents two styling modes: a moist hair mode with three temperature settings that go as scorching as 285°F, and a dry hair mode with two settings that high out on the similar temperature. There’s additionally a cool mode that can be utilized to rapidly calm down straightened hair and lock within the fashion, in addition to two completely different velocity settings to select from.

The Dyson Airstrait is at the moment out there by way of Dyson’s website and is priced precisely the identical because the Dyson Corrale straightener at $500. Nevertheless, whereas the Corrale presents cordless performance, due to its measurement and the highly effective electrical motor it makes use of, the Airstrait is as a substitute a corded accent and requires an influence outlet.