Dyson Lightcycle Task Lamp

Not sure about the point of this. Okay, the heat pipe is a reasonable idea, but a light that matches my local sun cycle would be useless: At night (when I actually need it) it would be off.

Clearly I'm missing something.

Re: Dyson Lightcycle Task Lamp

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Post by doe88 » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 4:48 AM UTC

keyle wrote: post #6

That's great, but who wants to pay that much to have the same light for 60 years? One "advantage" of consumerism is cheap = changeable The sad part of modern technology is that you can't fix it yourself, nor do you understand how it works. It doesn't make you any smarter. That said, having a luxury product that last 60 years is a very niche market.

> That's great, but who wants to pay that much to have the same light for 60 years?

This. Technologies evolve/improve so fast, you don't want to be stuck with them forever anyway.

Re: Dyson Lightcycle Task Lamp

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Post by sdan » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 4:48 AM UTC

$500 for a lamp... I'm out of words. I don't care how much tech you put into it, at the end of the day, it's not going to be tremendously better than a lightbulb hanging over your desk for $5~10.

Re: Dyson Lightcycle Task Lamp

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Post by rdc12 » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 5:04 AM UTC

keyle wrote: post #6

That's great, but who wants to pay that much to have the same light for 60 years? One "advantage" of consumerism is cheap = changeable The sad part of modern technology is that you can't fix it yourself, nor do you understand how it works. It doesn't make you any smarter. That said, having a luxury product that last 60 years is a very niche market.

The downside to cheap and changeable, is it creates products that are disposable which contributes to a tonne of waste.

I do miss having items that when they break, I could pull apart and repair too.