It looks perfect for a cleanroom but in my office those little wheels would be covered in dust immediately.
Jake Dyson Lighting
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#33Is this a joke? $600+ for a desk LED lamp? Even if current LEDs lose brightness, you could just replace the bulb every month for the next 10 years before this lamp even came close to an ROI. But I guess Dyson isn't going after the "value" market, just the cool factor.
> Is this a joke? I see you're new to Dyson's business model. Keep in mind, these are the guys who make a $400 fan in a niche full of $10 competitors.
My mom once got a Dyson vacuum cleaner.
I can only assume Dyson pivoted from making a jet engine.
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#35They don't even tell you how bright their expensive lights are.
they give some value in lux but that depends on the distance in which it is measured.
I want lumen values!
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#36Have you seen their other lighting product? That's some serious heat-sinking!
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#37I was such a huge Dyson fan, bought a cleaner a decade ago, read his books. Had the suspicion the cleaner was crap. Lots of reviews said the same. But I convinced myself I and the others were wrong, Dyson is a genius. Some years ago I finally admitted it was expensive crap and got something else.
Dyson, like Bose, is a genius.
And Dyson, like Bose, is an extremely successful marketer.
Both companies have some very interesting engineering which is then translated into expensive consumer products that don't perform notably better than the competition, especially if you consider function (cleaning carpets, reproducing sound accurately) more important than features (no vacuum filter bag! Tiny speaker cubes!).
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#38Is this a joke? $600+ for a desk LED lamp? Even if current LEDs lose brightness, you could just replace the bulb every month for the next 10 years before this lamp even came close to an ROI. But I guess Dyson isn't going after the "value" market, just the cool factor.
Plenty of designer stuff is vastly overpriced. That's fine, we all know that there is more than utility to making a purchase decision. But I do agree that the marketing here seems slightly off.
The LED cooling is the solution to a problem that nobody has or cares about if I ever saw one. And it doesn't even make for interesting small talk like some expensive gadgets. In terms of demographics, I think this lamp appeals more to the Wallpaper reading type than the Wired reading type and though there is a significant overlap, I think they should focus a bit less on the lifetime of the LED's and all that technical stuff.
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#39I was such a huge Dyson fan, bought a cleaner a decade ago, read his books. Had the suspicion the cleaner was crap. Lots of reviews said the same. But I convinced myself I and the others were wrong, Dyson is a genius. Some years ago I finally admitted it was expensive crap and got something else.
I've got a Dyson DC18 and it's been good as far as I can tell, but I haven't compared it with anything else. What did you replace it with? Is the replacement better? Did you try any side-by-side comparisons?
1. I've replaced it with a Miele and a Siemens (needed two)
2. The both clean better, I find less dirt in carpets and e.g. in corners than with the Dyson.
3. Personal subjective opinion: Having a bag is cleaner for me.
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#40Is this a joke? $600+ for a desk LED lamp? Even if current LEDs lose brightness, you could just replace the bulb every month for the next 10 years before this lamp even came close to an ROI. But I guess Dyson isn't going after the "value" market, just the cool factor.
> Is this a joke? I see you're new to Dyson's business model. Keep in mind, these are the guys who make a $400 fan in a niche full of $10 competitors.
Sounds just like Beats. Maybe Apple should buy them out and make gold lights for $6,000.