Originally Posted by danade

The Oliso is a very interesting iron--when you take your hand off the top of the handle, little feet (about a half-inch tall) immediately come out of the bottom to hold the iron off the surface of your ironing board. This means you don't have to bend your wrist up constantly to set the iron up vertically. When you want to use it again you just put your hand on the top of the handle and it's ready to go again, so you can just push it away from you, soleplate down, let go of it and reposition your fabric or stop ironing temporarily. If you have carpal tunnel syndrome or arthritis in your wrist this would be an excellent choice. Only problem with it that I have is that after you unplug it you can't go back for that "last bit of heat" in the iron because of the little feet that have come down.

Not sure that I explained that quite right, but you get the general idea.

Dana