Dyson's $399 hairdryer

[Homer J Simpson]

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/gadgets/dyson-s-launches-new-399-supersonic-hair-dryer-n563476

Dyson website.

http://www.dyson.com/haircare/supersonic?&mkwid=sinE6TIli_dc&pcrid=106716128059&pkw=%2Bdryer%20%2Bhair&pmt=b&productid=&gclid=CIjD6byMks8CFUWBfgoddWIPDA

[raptor1956]

Dyson, the English Apple with the English Steve Jobs.


Brian

[wraper]

Don't own any Dyson products, but their airblade hand dryers which I often find in airports blow the shit out of any competitors.

[ZeTeX]

Hairphoolery

[Ampera]

Dyson is like HTC with their Vive.

Their products are worth the money you pay. They deliver for the cost. If you spend 400$ on a hairdryer from Dyson, they will give you a hairdryer that performs the 400$ price tag.

It's just 400$.

Like the HTC Vive, the experience is worth every penny of 800$ and the PC you need to run it, but it's still 800$.

[RGB255_0_0]

$400 I'd expect it to do my household chores and suck me off. Ten times the price so it doesn't give you split ends?

[os40la]

$400 I'd expect it to do my household chores and suck me off. Ten times the price so it doesn't give you split ends?

Then get the VIVE and Dyson and you can have both..   

[edy]

I paid $800+ for a vacuum cleaner made by Miele. This one in fact...



It sucks... I mean it really really sucks!    Still better than any other vacuum we've had. But yes, if you are going to pay that much it better be worth every penny. So I hope this Dyson is the same. Sure it costs a lot but you know what women pay these days for their hair? This may be a cheaper option to give as a gift to your significant other. If only it had blue-tooth connection to your app!

[RGB255_0_0]

$400 I'd expect it to do my household chores and suck me off. Ten times the price so it doesn't give you split ends?

Then get the VIVE and Dyson and you can have both..   

Since VR adoption has plummeted recently, they may well end up being for porn.

Since this thread had now degraded so low and on the porn note, VR needs porn to survive.

[wraper]

Since this thread had now degraded so low and on the porn note, VR needs porn to survive.

Technology of the future.

[Macbeth]

My dad constantly finds Dyson cyclones or whatevers at the council dump and can't resist taking them home (I've told him it is actually illegal to recycle these items destined for landfill and many a "dustbin raider" has been made an example of in the courts) but he thinks I am insane and the world is insane to stop a guy picking up someones rubbish with an aim to fix it. He is 75 and utterly insane laws like that are absurd to him. They are absurd to me too.

He likes to fix them - they really never have anything bad wrong with them, really simple mechanical fixes, but people chuck them for a new model in a new colour just because they didn't empty the fucking filters.

Unfortunately he involves me when it comes to the electronics... 

But at least I have a constant supply of free Dysons... 

[XOIIO]

I want to see a teardown, I really doubt it had a circuit board all the way around like that.

edit: Oh, is it cordless? From the video it does seem to have it and my first thought is that the handle would be more than enough room but I bet it's cordless too.

edit 2: nope they just put the motor there.

[Ampera]

Since this thread had now degraded so low and on the porn note, VR needs porn to survive.

Technology of the future.

Well that exists.

Either we've hit rock bottom, or this is some perfect 10 I don't know about.

[mikeselectricstuff]

I've told him it is actually illegal to recycle these items destined for landfill

Under what legislation ?

[XOIIO]

My dad constantly finds Dyson cyclones or whatevers at the council dump and can't resist taking them home (I've told him it is actually illegal to recycle these items destined for landfill and many a "dustbin raider" has been made an example of in the courts) but he thinks I am insane and the world is insane to stop a guy picking up someones rubbish with an aim to fix it. He is 75 and utterly insane laws like that are absurd to him. They are absurd to me too.

He likes to fix them - they really never have anything bad wrong with them, really simple mechanical fixes, but people chuck them for a new model in a new colour just because they didn't empty the fucking filters.

Unfortunately he involves me when it comes to the electronics... 

But at least I have a constant supply of free Dysons... 

I wouldn't pass up a free one lol. No fucking way would I pay retail though, those desktop ones suck compared to conventional fans.

[mikeselectricstuff]

Wow - it has a "glass bead thermistor"  - at this price I'd want a PT100!

[Ampera]

I've told him it is actually illegal to recycle these items destined for landfill

Under what legislation ?

In the US it's more of a mildly illegal sorta thing. I wouldn't do it with a cop in front of me, but you wouldn't be taken to court or anything for it, maybe a night in jail at most or a trespassing charge.

[TheBay]

I paid $800+ for a vacuum cleaner made by Miele. This one in fact...



It sucks... I mean it really really sucks!    Still better than any other vacuum we've had. But yes, if you are going to pay that much it better be worth every penny. So I hope this Dyson is the same. Sure it costs a lot but you know what women pay these days for their hair? This may be a cheaper option to give as a gift to your significant other. If only it had blue-tooth connection to your app!

Mine is discontinued now due to EU law, but I have the $1500 model on Amazon. It's amazing. Had a top end Dyson and it was so so.

Also have a Miele washing machine which is superb.

[AntiProtonBoy]

$400 I'd expect it to do my household chores and suck me off.

With a little assistance, a vacuum cleaner will do both.

[timb]

Since this thread had now degraded so low and on the porn note, VR needs porn to survive.

Technology of the future.

*Sighs* This is what happens to sexually repressed cultures.

[Ampera]

Since this thread had now degraded so low and on the porn note, VR needs porn to survive.

Technology of the future.

*Sighs* This is what happens to sexually repressed cultures.

It's Japanese. They are in no way sexually oppressed. They give the US a run for our money.

[raptor1956]

Since this thread had now degraded so low and on the porn note, VR needs porn to survive.

Technology of the future.

*Sighs* This is what happens to sexually repressed cultures.

It's Japanese. They are in no way sexually oppressed. They give the US a run for our money.

Yes, one stroll through the Akihabara will put an end to any thoughts of there "sexual repression."  We stopped in one place that was like six floors of that weird animated/cartoon porn stuff.  To each his own...

I once worked for a Japanese automation company and while installing an automated warehouse system here in Utah I had to have some parts flown in and when they arrived I opened the boxes and the parts were wrapped in newspaper.  I unwrapped them and only later did it occur to me that there was something odd about the newspaper.  So, I went back and gave the paper another look and sure enough it was basically softcore porn.

Nope, not all that repressed.


Brian

[AntiProtonBoy]

Imagine your place getting burgled while wearing that gear, and not even noticing everything was taken, apart from the sofa and the VR rig you were strapped into. 

[SteveyG]

Don't own any Dyson products, but their airblade hand dryers which I often find in airports blow the shit out of any competitors.

The AirForce hand dryers are a lot better.

[setq]

Dyson vacuums are pretty good as a whole.  I had one of their upright vacuum cleaners for a good few years but I killed it dead. I just do that with everything I touch eventually. So I hit Amazon and bought a Numatic Henry. Five star reviews galore but it's hopeless. No suck at all, falls to bits all the time, when you pull it around the centre of gravity is so high it ends up on its side and upside down every two minutes, and finally the hose holder is so flimsy it just pulls the whole thing over. The only solution for the suck is to run it bagless and then carefully dump it's insides into the bin without losing them everywhere which is damn hard. I actually want to take it outside and beat it with a cricket bat every time I use it.

But, screw paying Dyson prices. I'll get a couple off eBay/gumtree and fix them next time. Takes about 30 mins to strip one to parts and clean it as they are designed to be repaired. I do this with test gear so why not household appliances.

As for the hair dryer, Bosch do nice hair dryers for less than 1/8 of the cost. There are no nice vacuum cleaners for 1/8 the cost of a Dyson. Ergo, I don't see the cost justification for this hairdryer.