For the web inclined guys here. What techniques are used to show motion/animation? looks quite smooth/impressive
Dyson 360 Eye
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#22Fantastically annoying page design. Scrolling takes many seconds to just show the next page, with no indication that anything is happening. Just blank blackness. Then each page requires you to hunt and click little circles with pluses in them, just to show a paragraph or two of copy. Would it have killed them to just present all the text at once? Perhaps use tabs or some other "normal" solution to the problem of want…
I'm normally someone who complains about this, but I didn't notice anything like that with this page. I see a regular scrollbar on the side and scrolling with the wheel happens as it should.
What system are you using?
PS: Ah, I just noticed that this changes mode when the browser window reaches a certain width. Below that it's quite comfortable to use.
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#23"17,000 rpm with digital pulse technology" ... I guess that means a PWM DC motor controller?
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#24"This unique 360° vision system uses complex mathematics, probability theory, geometry and trigonometry to map and navigate a room. So it knows where it is, where it’s been and where it’s yet to clean." I hate the "Oh, why don't we use slightly complex words to make the consumers feel impressed" marketing practice. Like when shampoo ads use phrases like "advanced [made-up-word] technology." Edit: That was a bit grump…
I'm pretty sure the software in the vacuum actually makes use of all of these. But then, so does your average roguelike.
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#25For the web inclined guys here. What techniques are used to show motion/animation? looks quite smooth/impressive
HTML5 video, I'm sure. They used that on the Mac Pro website too - they had two videos for each 'image', one forward, and one in reverse. Some JS playback controls linked to scrolling, and that's pretty much it. Very nice results though.
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#26Lots of negativity in the comments.
A couple questions:
1. For the robotics people, is the "360° eye" camera an innovation, or is this already a standard component of robotic vision?
2. What's the next step for robotics in the house after vacuums?
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#27I expect this is a the top of HN because people are interested in hacking their Dyson robot and write some custom Anroid/iOS apps to control it? Otherwise, it's a vacuum, or is this some type of sponsored Sears post I don't know about?
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#28For the web inclined guys here. What techniques are used to show motion/animation? looks quite smooth/impressive
As a web developer and web user I completely refuse to tell you, otherwise I worry you might copy this horrendous site design elsewhere.
This is a site anti-pattern (at least at desktop resolution). The site is only readable when I shrink the browser down until that terrible animated nonsense goes away.
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#29Good luck getting underneath furniture or cabinet overhangs!
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#30I always thought Dyson was crap, based solely on their obnoxious ads and garish design. Then I bought my wife their cordless upright vacuum for her birthday (I know, I know, but she asked for it). I was astonished when the vacuum became my favorite piece of tech in the whole house. We have a roomba that works fine, but it's extremely hard to imagine that I won't buy this thing immediately.
You're in the "dyson love" period. It'll wear off, then it'll be: a) they go wrong which happens very often with uprights from experience. The hose goes as does the roller belts and the motor. Also on multiple models, the clips on the can are so bad that the moment you detach it from the unit, it pours its suckings all over the floor again. All parts are expensive. b) they suck the wallpaper off or the floor tiles up…
You hoover your walls?