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James Dyson, Intelligent Designer

Dr Adequate

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James Dyson, inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, explains how to design things:

You have to take the Edison approach: test, and test, and test until it works best ... there were questions about the positioning and size and shape of the exit point, and every other part of the thing, and all of them had to be answered by testing.

Slow, slow, slow. These things cannot be hurried. When you develop a prototype you have to change only one thing at a time. If you are really going to improve things, then you are going to have to be patient. Very patient.
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He built 5127 prototypes. Now if only vacuum cleaners could reproduce with variation.
 
Yep Dyson did the work and kudos for that. However, if you live three flights up , as I do, you soon realise that a disposable paper dustbag is an excellent idea. Emptying a Dyson indoors to a bag or bin creates nearly as much mess as you just cleaned up.
 
Soapy Sam said:
Yep Dyson did the work and kudos for that. However, if you live three flights up , as I do, you soon realise that a disposable paper dustbag is an excellent idea. Emptying a Dyson indoors to a bag or bin creates nearly as much mess as you just cleaned up.
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I have to agree. Don't forget outdoors and the slightest breeze puts muck all over your person. It really is a filthy machine.

IMO the Dyson cleaner is considerably over-hyped (and over-priced accordingly).
 
Mercutio said:
Link, Dr. A?
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It's in his autobiography, Against the Odds.

A good read once he stops being modest and self-conscious about the fact that he's writing his autobiography ... I hate it when people do that. Fortunately he stops doing it after the first chapter.
 
Yes, that's why it irritates me.

If I ever write an autobiography, it'll be called something like How My Innate Greatness Led Me To Ultimate Triumph Over The Dolts Who Dared Stand In My Way.
 
Dr Adequate said:
It's in his autobiography, Against the Odds.

A good read once he stops being modest and self-conscious about the fact that he's writing his autobiography ... I hate it when people do that. Fortunately he stops doing it after the first chapter.
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Well I imagine you'd hate me then :D. I'm guilty of the same all the time. What's to be expected?

And to be honest, I much prefer the bagless variety. Not sure why you all are opening your cleaners when a window is open, but I've never had a problem emtpying the compartment. When they are designed well, they come off the vacuum cleaner as a closed unit and you just stick it inside the trash can, hit the "open" switch to let all the dust fall out, and then reach in there and close it while it is still safely within the trash can. Stick it back in the cleaner and there's no muss involved, at least for me. Bags on the other hand, well I tend to end up spilling a lot of dust just getting them out of the cleaner (thanks to accidently squeezing the thing) and further I end up taking forever just to dislodge it and then put a new one in there. I suppose one has to go with what works, but for my money, it's bagless all the way (and it's cheaper too).
 
Soapy Sam said:
Yep Dyson did the work and kudos for that. However, if you live three flights up , as I do, you soon realise that a disposable paper dustbag is an excellent idea. Emptying a Dyson indoors to a bag or bin creates nearly as much mess as you just cleaned up.
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The dust can be minmized by placing an empty (well it should have some air in there) plastic garbage bag around the canister releasing the latch through the plastic, andthen closing the lid (also through the bag). Once done, remove the empty canister - and if you feel it is necessary vacuum the local where you did the transfer.

I do agree with the above poster that they are overpriced, but they do work better than traditional models and tend to have great design (in a world where most manufacturers think that good design is putting some chrome trim around something).
 
I'm all for more science and experimentation. Dyson needs to go back to the drawing board again. I watched a demonstration of his machine in the local Costco. The demo lady dumped a bunch of rice on a carpet and demonstrated how the vacuum could spread the rice far and wide without picking up much. It was kind of pathetic and I felt sorry for the poor demo lady.
 
VPescado said:
(in a world where most manufacturers think that good design is putting some chrome trim around something).
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:D I always marvel at the "brew strength" setting on my coffee maker. Hey, more coffee grounds = stroger coffee, less coffee grounds = weaker coffee. The "brew strength" setting at best, if it works at all, is wasting coffee.
 
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