Hoping it is not as loud as their vacuum cleaners, hand dryers ;)
Dyson has announced it will develop a new type of medical ventilator for NHS
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I'm right there with you, probably has to do with many of them having never seen a manufacturing facility. But they do know how to write "Those jobs are never coming back!"
I had someone call me to ask if we could use our 3D print farm, industrial (not hobby) CNC equipment and surface mount line to make "a low cost ventilator they designed over the weekend". I pretty much read the guy the riot act and told him to stop fucking around with shit he isn't even remotely equipped to understand and go find some other way to help. Yeah, I've lost a lot of tolerance for this kind of stuff during…
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Was not a fan until I bought their V10 vac. It is quite amazing at cleaning, performing much (much) better than any other vac I have ever owned although with the downside of an insufficient battery.
Their products are also built like a tank. I've gotten 20 years of use out of their original upright vacuum model so far.
I have a 2017 Cinetic Big Ball, and one of the wheels just broke off after two months. I didn't bother to replace it because it's only a mild inconvenience (it just requires slightly more force to pull it around) and I'm lazy af.
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#114> Some industry insiders have suggested that Dyson's approach to create a new model will take too long. You don't say. You can't just turn a vacuum cleaner into a ventilator by setting it to Blow instead of Suck. Medical devices take a very long time to develop, certify, build, release and develop training for because they're medical devices . The rule of thumb for consumer-grade hardware is it takes a minimum of one…
The child rescue submarine was not used for the rescue, but it wasn't a bad thing that it could have served as a backup plan. Elon Musk's comments were unforgivable, though.
What comments?
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I hate those god-awful AirBlade dryers. I have long fingers and it is almost impossible to dry my hands without that disgusting pool of water flicking up onto the tips of my fingers. Curl your fingers you say? Not possible due to how narrow the gap is without almost always making contact with the sides of the unit. Terrible machines.
It is surprising this wasn't realized when the machine was being developed. Contacting the pool of water at the bottom, or the sides of the drier, seems reasonably unhygienic.
Design is fundamentally iterative. It’s easy to see the right design in hindsight, but it takes raw numbers to get there: you have to throw away a certain number of designs to get to the right one.
And throwing away designs costs money. That’s why often it’s not until v2 or v3 of a product that they hit the right design. You often need the revenue from v1 and v2 to pay for more thrown away designs.
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#116I heard on a major news outlet, "...why are private companies such as Tesla and Elon Musk able to provide ventilators faster than the US government?" This should be obvious, private companies don't have red-tape, private companies for the most part have better talent, and private companies work at a much higher throughput and level of efficiency. I've stated all along the solutions to this crisis are going to come fr…
What do you think red tape is?
And why do you think it applies to government workers but not private workers?
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That doesn't necessarily follow. I assume the term "need a ventilator" does not mean they have 100% chance of dying without a ventilator. Very few things in life are 100% certain. I imagine its more like, you have a 90% chance of dying without this, and a 10% chance of living (Numbers totally made up). Its also not the case that a faulty ventilator might be worth 80% of a real ventilator. It may very well be 0%, it m…
If you need a ventilator, it's because your body cannot breathe without assistance. Many ventilators require intubation, which is an extremely invasive procedure. Ventilators don't boost chances, they are used to save you from dying, like a defibrillator and other forms of life support. Your assumption is essentially wrong.
"extremely invasive" isn't really a precise term, and sounds untrue here. It's a routine procedure, not considered dangerous.
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To be fair, a lot of these companies trying to switch manufacturing to help with the COVID-19 epidemic are hamstrung by the same intellectual and copyright laws they normally would. The only two sane approaches would be that copyright owners provide temporary, free licenses to other manufacturers (heck, even make the government pay a royalty for each unit) or the government to force the companies to provide the desig…
Boris could just say they are not going to enforce copyright etc during the crisis.
He could, but he won't. This is Boris 'we need to leave the EU because too much government' Johnson.
Re: Dyson has announced it will develop a new type of medical ventilator for NHS
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The child rescue submarine was not used for the rescue, but it wasn't a bad thing that it could have served as a backup plan. Elon Musk's comments were unforgivable, though.
What comments?
Look up “pedo guy” the story is too long and crazy to get into here haha