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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.
I just saved you 400 dollars.
When testing hair dryers why do you use miles of hair vs pounds of hair?
Please do not put your dick into the Dyson Supersonic.
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Well, I suppose blowing all your hair off of your head does simplify styling...
And how do you need 103 engineers for a hair dryer? I've done medium large projects for satellites with a dozen or so people and lots of computers and machines with blinky lights.
Hopefully, they had enough conditioner at hand to fix all of the split ends.
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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A friggin' $400 hair dryer? Wow, just wow.
I've heard sonic booms from things moving at supersonic speed. I don't think I want that in my bathroom
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Dyson needs to make an air knife (pair) that quickly shaves off 85% of the water left by those fancy butt washing toilet seats. I think he could do it with less than half the resources he put into this project.
... it blows.
Its all crap. Don't by anything they make. Only lasts a year and when it breaks there are not replaceable parts. Still using my 1986 rainbow vacuum I bought for $250 from ebay.
You keep making this crap, and we're waiting on a Sphere. Talk to the other guy.
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.
You know what is the worst? When you are in a public bathroom and have to use a Dyson Airblade Hand Dryer, because your hands inevitably end up touching the yellow part where everyone else's hands have inevitably ended up touching, yuck, and besides the thing never seems to dry your hands fully.
You know what is the best? The XLERATOR which is like putting your hands around the back end of a jet engine, totally dry in under 10 seconds.
"convention oven"? - Presumably it only works if there's more than 3 delegates......
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Dyson builds yet another product that 98% of the world will never buy.
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.
Expensive does NOT always mean better. Though yes, very often you get what you pay for.
Case in point. Dyson vacuum cleaners. Even though they are significantly more expensive than other brands in the US, they are crap. The hard plastics used, especially at the handle for the dirt trap break after a comparatively short amount of time. Admittedly, I am only going by anecdotal evidence here. My sister went through three in two years, though she still likes it when it's working. ;)
I had one for about two weeks and returned it. I thought it was broken because the suction was so poor. Turns out it was normal though. You see, I had just moved to the US from Germany at that time, where I had always owned Miele vacuum. These are, admittedly massively over priced in the US. What I paid 300€ for in Germany costs $900 in the US. That thing would suck up everything even when the bag was full.. no change in suction. We beat the crap out of it and never had any issues. Though, I learned that the motor wattage used in Europe is higher that what is used in the US for some reason. So.. I guess that explains it.
So.. what's my point again? No idea. Something about expensive stuff being better than cheap stuff i guess.
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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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?
We don't. No one gets put down for making genuine amazing products with amazing amounts of research that is "the best possible"
Dyson products are "as different as possible". He throws endless engineering at problems he doesn't understand even if they are well known (cyclonic separation), and the other half of the engineering is put into skirting patents he ripped off from other companies (bladeless fan from Toshiba, jet hand drier from Mitsubishi).
Dyson releases products and my first thought is not "whoah this is awesome," my first thought is "who have they ripped off now to sell overpriced plastic junk?"
Apparently I'm the only bloke here who thinks that this looks really cool, as far as hair dryers go anyway.
100K. That's gotta be loud.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
This isn't regurgitated news. They're putting a fucking ad right in there as a not-a-news story.
They should have employed those 103 engineers to figure out how to build an impenetrable concrete bubble around Dyson's corporate headquarters in order to save humanity from such egregious feats of idiocy.
I even cooked the bacon without my shirt on too (put it in the oven at 375 about 15-20min until it's golden brown, stays straight, no splattering).
I too appreciate when my shirts stay straight and have no splatters on them, but I think if you just bought your shirts in golden brown colour to begin with you could bake them for just one minute, and they'd still come out toasty warm.
Yaz
In defence of Dyson’s dryer: I worked in 2015 for an organisation that had hand dryers from both companies and the Dysons worked far better than the Mitsubishis. The Dyson machine is nearly as good as a paper towel.
Stuff that Natters.
See what I did there?
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'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
It's a hairdryer. It costs 4x as much as other hairdryers. It dries hair. If Dyson has revolutionized anything it is in the line of bullshit they spin to sell their products.
They should have given that in meters, so it sounds bigger. So since this smells of 'trying hard to make numbers sound big' , how much hair length does a human have?
If you take 100,000 hairs and 15cm it adds up to 15km or 10 miles. So they tested 100 heads. Or the same head 100 times. I wouldn't rank that under 'more than you'd expect'.
Hair dryers also tend to wreak havoc on and are generally not recommended for curly hair. Some people use diffusers but even these mess up curly hair. I noticed none of the models in the videos had curly locks.
103 engineers in Dyson's company, 103 engineers.
Fire one, pull him out, 102 engineers in Dyson's company.
Move one to marketing dept., 101 engineers in Dyson's company...
Now I want to go to the mall tomorrow to use the restroom just to try it!
They're not even better.
I had a Dyson vacuum cleaner for about a week before I threw it in the trash. Bagless vacuum cleaners are CRAP.
Their bladeless fans are noisy as hell.
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All design and no function. Perfect for hipsters.
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Dyson's true discoveries are to find people predilected to believe silly things and spend lots of money on fads. He claims his vacuum cleaners produce more "suction". The vacuum of any air-moving machine is limited by the natural air pressure, not by a fancy impeller design. It's like making an empty bottle more "empty". My grandma's Kirby from the 1950s produced just as much "suction" as a Dyson, and it had a metal housing that you could hit with a cannonball with no dent.
Now Dyson would have us believe that he has done what no one else in any company has been able to do for 50 years with the hairdryer. What he does with it is akin to putting gold-plating on a dump truck. The non-plated version does the same job for a whole lot less.
What pisses me off about Dyson pricing is that the UK gets ripped off compared to other markets, despite Dyson being a UK company. For example, the recently released V6 Mattress cleaner is about 20% cheaper in the US (before 20% sales tax in the UK). I recently bought a V6 Absolute, and it was about £150 cheaper to get it from Amazon.fr than from anywhere in the UK.
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Carver used to make audio products back in the 80s and 90s. Their big thing was called "magnetic field amplifiers". They would churn out "white papers" on their technology and people would buy their stuff. None of it ever lasted long and they went out of business, several times, IRIC.
Carver's big "breakthrough" was, like Dyson, in marketing, not engineering.
Here is a clip of product testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Their blade hand dryer dries your hands, which is more than most of those whoosy blowers.
Their blade hand dryer breeds bacteria, and then blows it onto your hands. It also doesn't accomodate anyone with hands larger than a child's. It's garbage.
Their vacuum cleaner removed the bag, today I use a Samsung bagless and its good (and thanks to Dyson its bagless).
Bagless vacs predate Dyson by decades, so no. That's not thanks to Dyson.
If their vacuum cleaner wasn't good, then everyone wouldn't have copied them, and I wouldn't have a nice bagless Samsung to use?
Their vac is good, and being bagless is cool, but Dyson did not invent that, so stop riding the dick before commenting.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I suspect you're using it wrong. You stick your hands in at the *sides* and lift them out once.
There's no room for me to do that. I can only put my hands about 80% of the way into the Dyson airblade before they are in the fetid water which pools inside of it. Apparently, the brits have teeny tiny little child hands.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
So in other words, doing exactly what the patent system intended inventors to do.
More shit from Dyson.
I'd never heard of his "bladeless fans" so I followed the link. In fact his fan does have blades; it is just that they are hidden in a duct. Pity someone does not do him under the [UK] Trade Description Act.
Dyson is a PoS personally - my wife has dealt with him on the phone (her company supplies his with parts) and he really is quite different from his cuddly public image.
"It's not that you put your hands in, pull them up and down till it blows your hands dry by evaporation. Which is what I suspect your trying to do."
That's what the help diagram shows, so no wonder everyone does it that way.
However, in my experience one-pass is insufficient to remove the water from my hands.
The Xcelerator mentioned above does both: it has a jet of air fast enough to blow away the large drops, and enough warming to finish off the job. Because it blows straight down there is no risk of touching anything, and you can control the orientation of your hands as you see fit. It's the best of all worlds.
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.
To all the nay sayers who laugh at hair dryers, I say this: Hair dryer is the most under estimated products in the history. Remember when Princess Vespa was stranded in the desert moon of Vega, all she had was a hair dryer and she survived the desert with it.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
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.
It might not be audible, but the db level can still cause damage. Somebody should measure it to confirm.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
"I had a Dyson vacuum cleaner for about a week before I threw it in the trash."
Sounds rather wasteful. Perhaps you should have returned it to the store it should be under warranty. There are the occasional faulty product.
Or you could had sold it with eBay or Craigslist?
I have one and no complains. It is the longest lasting vacuum that I owned so far.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
The cloth bag got you dirty because most of the material stuck to the bag.
On the Bagless systems it is contained in a hard plastic shell. That slides out without the need of a bunch of shaking.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
A few years ago my sister was shopping. For a vacuum and had her eyes on a Dyson. Being the helpful brother that I am, and also having a subscription to consumer reports, I looked up the ratings on upright vacuum cleaners and shared them with her. The Dyson she was interested in wasn't even near the top of the best performing vacuums. The best performing vacuum scored over 20 points higher on a 100 point scale, and was 25% the cost. After taking a look at the reviews, her response was somethin like but not verbatim: "Yeah... I think I just want the Dyson."
I've got a Dyson vacuum, and it's been working fine for me for about five years now. I've also got one of their fans, and it's quieter than any conventional fan I ever used.
-jcr
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A bit too rich for my blood. I'd consider getting one of these if the price were around $150 or so.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Anyway, what's the point of a cleaner with a transparent dirt container?
The vac only works correctly up until the container is full to the line. They make it transparent so that you can clearly see how full it is, and so that you can see if you've vac'd up anything important and/or valuable. When you're done using it, you can empty it if you don't want to look at the dirt.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
some solid engineering and user-centric thought here. But $400? Nope. There are $20 hair dryers out there with a thousand 5-star reviews. Is this 20x better? Seeing how Dyson hand dryers spread germs at a rate and range that would make evil geniuses and zombies jealous, I'll pass on this.
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It's so you can see when to empty it. The fuller the container gets, the less well it works
I assume that like Dyson's "bladeless" fans, it has the fan blades hidden within it? It's amazing to me how many people think those things are magic.
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Supersonic it is not - just dishonest.
Full disclosure - I have used shop-air (oil-less and dried) to dry my hair - works fast - tends to tangle - no heat. Still not supersonic.
I dry my hair with the defroster in my car. A bit expensive for hair driver, but it takes me places as a secondary feature, and it's cordless.
There is no shortage of complete idiots. They are the majority in the first place and they breed at a much higher rate.
On the website, Dyson regulates the heat of the drier so that it does not exceed a certain temperature that will damage hair. Preventing hair damage is the main goal. If speed of drying isn't that much of an issue, set your current hair dryer on a low heat setting to achieve a similar (not the same) effect.
Because there's a trigger release at the top and sides are slippery plastic?
I just walk out to the bin, stick the end of the dust container down in the trash, and pull the trigger. When I lift it up all the dust (or dog hair, which is what 90% is) stays in the bin and the vacuum's dust container comes out empty. Then I just push it against the ground and it's closed up and ready to use.
Not sure where the problem is, or where you get dirty in that process.
Sam
And one problem is that #2 will often be #1 just with an insane mark up. I buy the cheapest possible and get a piece of junk, at least I got what I paid for.
Who the hell is going to buy it. Even people with a lot of money don't like to be ripped off like that.
Unfortunately I'm sure there are stupid people out there to buy it.