January 7, 2019
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The 'world's first cordless hair dryer
Volo Beauty has unveiled what it claims is the world’s first cordless hair dryer. The firm showed off its award-winning technology at CES Unveiled on Sunday night ahead of the show’s official opening, revealing how it strays from the traditional coil-heating system to dramatically cut down the time it takes to dry your hair.
According to Volo, the wire-free blow dryer can run on medium heat for more than 20 minutes on a single charge – although the firm says it can dry long hair in just about 10 minutes.
The system, called Volo Go, has a battery incorporated all throughout the handle, allowing it to ditch the cords for truly untethered use. But, it doesn’t come cheap; Volo says its cordless dryer will be released at $399.
Volo Go was named a CES 2019 Innovation Awards Honoree ahead of the massive Las Vegas tech event, and will officially launch on Kickstarter on January 7.
The system comes years in the making, says CEO and co-founder Ryan Goldman, who tells Dailymail.com he was ‘tired of seeing all of the cords hanging out of drawers’ at his salons. Unlike traditional tethered hair dryers, which rely on nichrome wire – or, ‘that little wrapped coil’ – Volo Go uses quartz infrared. Nichrome wire is based on conductive heat, Goldman explained.
‘It’s basically what’s in a toaster oven – the technology was developed in the 1920s,' the CEO told Dailymail.com. So, I re-engineered the heating element using quartz infrared, which is a different method for drying hair. Quartz infrared is radiant heat, like the sun. It emits a glow, and that’s the radiant heat. It’s not as hot, but it’s drying your hair faster, from the inside out.’
On medium heat, Volo Go can run for roughly 24 minutes on a single charge. On a high heat, it will last about 13 minutes. The firm says this should be more than enough, even for users with a lot of hair.
'Hair appliances are a $20 billion a year market, and yet they still require consumers to be tethered to a wall. Between the VOLO infrared heat element, which is healthier for hair, and the lithium-ion battery, the VOLO Go is a feat of engineering that will forever change the hot tools market,' said Jonathan Friedman, President and Co-Founder.
Extracted from: www.dailymail.co.uk
