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Dyson Launches New 'Supersonic' Hair Dryer To Revolutionize Hair Care (nbcnews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Dyson has a launched a hair dryer with a design language similar to that of its bladeless fans. The $399 hair dryer is four years in the making, involving 103 engineers, over 1,000 miles of test hair, and a $71 million investment -- the Dyson Supersonic is being touted as "the hairdryer rethought" by its inventor Sir James Dyson. "We realized that hair dryers can cause extreme heat damage to hair," said Dyson in a press release. "So I challenged Dyson engineers to really understand the science of hair and develop our version of a hair dryer, which we think solves these problems." The hair dryer can be reserved online and will be sold exclusively at Sephora for $399 this fall.
It's so brazen I almost think it's not. They usually try to hide them a _little_ bit... I mean, I don't even... I mean... come on.
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I've tried to stick to the principle of not buying the cheapest option as it a) never lasts b) does a piss poor job
There's also the c) can be dangerous
Hair dryers are a good example of dangerous. I know of a couple of homes that have burned to the ground due to a cheap hair dryer.
I recently bought another blender for making soups, curry sauces etc. The previous one I had melted and smoked in front of me. It was cheap.
While searching online for a replacement I discovered an alarming large number food blenders smoking or bursting into flames in product reviews.
So I found one which cost 10x what I paid for my previous one and it's superb. It works so much better, it's quiet, it looks beautiful and I'm sure it'll last for years.
Why is it when someone actually goes to extreme lengths to try and design the best possible product instead of trying to make the cheapest product possible with no effort to make it any good, reliable or safe everyone puts them down?
I don't get it?
I wouldn't buy Dyson's, or anyone else's, hairdryer but I admire him for being a self made man who got there because of his innovation and design.
I'm willing to pay extra for a well designed product that has had a bit of thought and passion put into it.
Dyson's designs are only revolutionary from the manufacturer's point of view. I own one of his designs from the core vacuum product line; from a user standpoint it's VERY ineffective and irritating to use. Never again, for me. From the manufacturer's POV, however, the modular construction is both cheaper to produce and also cheaper to maintain and service.
Dyson's revolutionary designs benefit Dyson. Period. Don't be fooled by the marketing hype that turns design flaws from the user perspective into false benefits. That ability to portray a sow's ear as a silk purse is Dyson's real revolutionary accomplishment.
20 years ago, most products could be found in a range of price and quality. Now, markets have segmented into two distint price points:
1. Cheapest possible.
2. Luxury brand (typically for the 1%ers).
I believe that this segmentation is related to 2 factors:
a. Vast increase in imports of consumer products (mostly from China).
b. Increasing wealth disparity.
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I had a Dyson vacuum cleaner for about a week before I threw it in the trash. Bagless vacuum cleaners are CRAP.
Around 1960 my mother had an original Hoover Junior with just a cloth bag. When you emptied it, shaking it over the dustbin (US trashcan) you were lucky if half the crap inside didn't end up over yourself, especially if there was a bit of wind about. Emptying it was my job.
Then disposable paper bags for cleaners were invented. It was brilliant! No more shaking and beating the cloth bag and getting covered in it.
Then Dyson comes along and uninvents the disposable bag, and people lap it up, Dyson becomes a folk hero. WTF?
Anyway, what's the point of a cleaner with a transparent dirt container? When I use a vacuum cleaner it is because I don't want to see it any more, not to exhibit it in a "glass" case.
Apparently they have a "thing" for household devices that either suck or blow
His first "invention" was a wheelbarrow with a ball on a spindle instead of a wheel, the "Ballbarrow". [He claimed that it could go round corners better because it could be tilted over - never mind that the rounded tyre of a traditional barrow already allows it]. He continues this ball theme with his vacuum cleaners. His thing is about balls rather than sucking.
I've just checked his history on Wikipedia. His college education was in art, not engineering. That explains a lot, including the pseudo-technical Lego-coloured plastic protrusions on his shit.