Or instead of making the dryers smaller, make them bigger
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Biigger! Better! Faster! More!
Too bad he didnāt make it something like
Weād finally have Dyson Spheres.
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So it somehow manufactures air?
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From what I gather by the wording in the Gizmodo article, the Q fan probably blows air fast enough with a favorable geometry that air is pulled over its outside surfaces where the expelled airflow creates a low-level partial vacuum known as cavitation. This is actually a principle decades old in fluid dynamics exploited in certain types of jet engines, and every enclosed fan technically causes external caviation, but this is the first Iāve heard of it being used in a fan to deliberately aid in the directed airflow.
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This seems a plausible way to get a fast airflow, but it certainly doesnāt allow for a positive divergence in the air field. The amount of air it is blowing is either the same as it is sucking, or magic.
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Maybe thereās an algae farm or something in there.
DYSON SPHERES. You fucking people, I swear.
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Dyson, the Apple of sucking, moves to become the Apple of blowing too.
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definitely
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small, carefully engineered, expensive disappointment
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I think Dyson is showing that they understand that women love tech and are the purchasers of household products. Their strategy is to make these hum drum products like vacuum cleaners, fans, and hair dryers and make them something both women and men will fantasize about. After all, it was women who really drove the adoption of cell phones for personal use. Smart Dyson. Smart. You are on the same train as Apple.
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The magic of marketing.
Product development: āIn conclusion, the new geometry allows for twice the airflow speed of any other fan at this size and power.ā
Marketing: āSo what youāre saying is it blows seven times as much air as it sucks!ā
Product development: āNo, thatās not what weā¦ā
Marketing: āWeāll call it the Q Ballā¦no, that might be trademarkedā¦the Q Fan!ā
Product development: āAh, fuck it. Weāve got work to get back to. Sure, seven times.ā
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Sounds like they have their own Jobs.
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I had previously given my father a Nutribullet, which he used almost daily until it stopped working. Iām pretty sure he just broke one of the little tabs on the container part, but unfortunately I only found out about the problem after he had thrown the entire machine away.
So this gift giving season I planned to buy him a replacement, but it being so close to Christmas I decided to try to avoid the mall by ducking into the local āAs Seen on TVā store to see if they had one.
The did NOT have the Nutribullet but instead had some knock off version that was only 300 watts. I work in engineering so I do get the importance of 300 watts vs 600.
The guy at the store explained that he had selected this particular brand because it also āextracted nutrients,ā just like the Nutribullet. I almost bought because the thing seemed to be magical. Screw watts. Nutrient Extraction is hard to engineer.
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Thatās what she said.
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We have a Dyson vac (which is great), and the way it is put together (to change this attachment, you push that button and slide this piece out that way) I do not think it is designed to appeal to the average housewife; the interface is much more attractive to engineers (of either sex). It is also heavy, though not so much as the cast aluminum monsters that used to be so popular.
I figured it out last night. This thing only has to last 93 years for me to break even on the cost of a bunch of $30 Conairs from Target.
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