$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.
said every dude walking through Restoration Hardware
Dyson Lightcycle Task Lamp
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Re: Dyson Lightcycle Task Lamp
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
My coffee maker is from 1972 which makes it more than a decade older than the user. So there seems to be a market for high quality, unbreakable technology. But then again, how many years could it be operational when depending on an app.
Curious: What kind / brand is it?
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#33Whereas an Anglepoise lamp actually will last 60 years. Many already have. It's too early to know if their LED variant will. Dyson had one decent idea that everyone else adopted too - cyclones instead of bags. Everything else seems to require paying 10x what a sane premium and expensive cost might be - lamps, hair dryers, fan heaters. The innovation is making it appear complex enough to justify the absurd price. I be…
Their contra-rotating drum washing machine was innovative but they pulled it from the market. Innovative ideas don’t necessarily having staying-power either.
Re: Dyson Lightcycle Task Lamp
#34Whereas an Anglepoise lamp actually will last 60 years. Many already have. It's too early to know if their LED variant will. Dyson had one decent idea that everyone else adopted too - cyclones instead of bags. Everything else seems to require paying 10x what a sane premium and expensive cost might be - lamps, hair dryers, fan heaters. The innovation is making it appear complex enough to justify the absurd price. I be…
I got my wife the hair dryer and I'm genuinely impressed with it. It weighs nothing, uses proper PID control for heat and fan, heats up and cools fast and just feels good. The device stays cool while heating the air and it blows a lot of air while making hardly any noise.
In short, I can't imagine a more perfect hair dryer.
Sadly, I am bald and do not get to use it. I did spend a while gushing about how neat it was, though.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Devices that require apps to use are infuriating. I recently got a bose soundbar and subwoofer and the instructions tell you to install the app so you can connect the subwoofer to the soundbar. I don't have any devices that can run the bose app... I eventually found out if you use an AUX cable (not included) you can connect the two devices together without an app.
I understand the frustration but you really have the need for a bose soundsystem while not owning any modern computing device or smart phone?
Keep in mind that many (all?) smartphones are deliberately obsoleted within 2-3 years of release - as an example, my S5 (released 2014) only supports through Marshmallow (obsolete as of 2016). Any apps requiring Nougat or later are unavailable to me. Given that I personally use my phone for communication, browsing the web, reading, and note-taking (and occasionally SSH), this isn't a concern, but it might well be a deal-breaker for a Bose soundsystem, unless their apps happen to be backwards-compatible (though being IoT-connected would be enough to make me avoid it like the plague regardless).
Re: Dyson Lightcycle Task Lamp
#36You could buy a BenQ WiT for $180. Vastly more practical for most nerds, cheaper and has a replaceable DC transformer. The name isn’t as sexy though!
Re: Dyson Lightcycle Task Lamp
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Devices that require apps to use are infuriating. I recently got a bose soundbar and subwoofer and the instructions tell you to install the app so you can connect the subwoofer to the soundbar. I don't have any devices that can run the bose app... I eventually found out if you use an AUX cable (not included) you can connect the two devices together without an app.
I understand the frustration but you really have the need for a bose soundsystem while not owning any modern computing device or smart phone?
Yea, But a soundsystem is supposed to last much longer than an app.
It might work now, what if someone needs to reconnect it 3-4 years from now and the app no longer runs?
Re: Dyson Lightcycle Task Lamp
#38> Heat Pipe cooling technology. […] Dyson engineers addressed this with technology often used in satellites.
Or in many/most CPU and GPU heatsinks for the last decade or so, both Intel and AMD have heatpipe-based stock coolers in their range. There are heatpipe-based heatsinks available for $10~15.
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#39> Heat Pipe cooling technology. […] Dyson engineers addressed this with technology often used in satellites. Or in many/most CPU and GPU heatsinks for the last decade or so, both Intel and AMD have heatpipe-based stock coolers in their range. There are heatpipe-based heatsinks available for $10~15.
Yeah, this also jumped at me. I think that when copy writters make that kind of claim it really hurts the credibility of the entire copy, and you start to wonder where else they're exaggerating.
Re: Dyson Lightcycle Task Lamp
#40Wow, it takes something to make Philips Hue look cheap. I'll stick to those, which I can fill several rooms with for the same price.