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Nifty Design for a Space-Saving, Wall-Mounted, Heated Drying Rack for Boots and Gloves

French manufacturer Koralp makes this nifty K-Stokdry-A, a wall-mounted gloves/boots drying rack, presumably designed for ski lodges. Billed as space-saving, the bulk of it is just 4cm thick.

The unit up top sucks in air…

…heats it, and distributes it through tubes down to holes in the brackets, of which there are both glove- and boot-accommodating varieties.

Both types of holders are connected to, or have integrated, spring-loaded valves, so that the warm air only blows out of the tubes when something is hanging from the bracket.

The system offers a lot of different configurations, and the company notes that the glove brackets will also accommodate helmets.

It’s a pretty cool system. I own an old floor-mounted DryGuy boot dryer, which works well enough, but there’s just never a convenient place to put it; if I spent more time in wet weather, I’d be giving the K-Stokdry-A a hard look.