I just hope they continue working on the air filtering butt plug because my friends and family are having a tough time being around me after dinner.
Dyson Has Killed Its Bizarre Zone Air-Purifying Headphones
Submitted 3 weeks ago by darkspider@lemmy.blahaj.zone to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.wired.com/story/dyson-has-killed-its-bizarre-zone-air-purifying-headphones/
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HowAbt2day@futurology.today 3 weeks ago
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
(I love an excuse to bring up my favorite thing out of the US Patent database.)
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Looking though the related patents, fart filters certainly seem to be a hot topic among inventors.
Here is a patent for a literal butt-plug fart filter.
This one is from last year.anytimesoon@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Do you know if they ever ended up making any of these? I’m struggling to really understand “non-adhesive adherence” as well as other parts of that abstract
YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
If only there was a way to reuse vape pens for something useful/funny
moody@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Fill them with farts and then pass them around to friends.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Wealthy Republicans have them working on a filtered and thermocontrolled chastity belt as top priority.
Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How much coke were they on when they came up with those?
grte@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Just slightly less than when they came up with a fan that doesn’t buffet you with air as though that’s not what you want from a fan.
moody@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
I hate the fan buffeting noise, and would be happy to have a fan that doesn’t do that. Not $500 happy, mind you.
TomMasz@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Dyson has inhaled too much ozone from electric motors.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
high-tech gimp mask
Okay, I wasn’t sure how to describe this… This is perfect.
Albbi@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
With all the wildfire smoke in the air, I’m actually sorta interested in these now. I wonder if you can get em cheap.
prembil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I would strongly recommend you watch some reviews first. It does not seal around the mouth and nose. It is just a fan that makes a constant stream of air to your face, drying inside of your nose, making you more vulnerable to airborne viruses, which would also help the ash go deeper into your lungs.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Would guess this announcement will only boost interest esp from collectors
JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Do companies release these nonsensical products as justification to squat on patents?
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
That and sometimes R&D are given funds to fuck around with, worst case scenario nothing comes of it best case they make a massive return on investment. Sometimes you need to throw together a prototype to see if anything out of it is useful, sure the device as a whole may be pointless but maybe someone stumbled upon a useful quick release concept.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Wait, those weren’t made as a prop for Brazil 2?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Is this 100% joke or is there really a Brazil 2 underway? I feel like the world needs a mirror held up to it in the form of a Brazil 2 more than ever.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
It was a joke. I feel like we’re all living Brazil 2.
Krudler@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“I’ll be completely honest, quite often we work in an obsessive nature," says Jake. "We want this product. We want to make this thing. Sometimes before actually evaluating what the market response might be. And the market didn’t exist. So you’ve got to take those risks.”
So they did 0 market study, decided to build a gas station on the peak of a mountain and now marvel how nobody came.
Moron.
terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Ya. But also it’s nice seeing someone doing stuff just for the ‘fun’ of it.
I own zero Dyson products (way too overpriced to me), but I can respect the engineering behind their stuff (mostly).
Krudler@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As a person that does electronic repair, let me just tell you what pieces of shit dysons are from a design standpoint.
They are the most over engineered, Fancy pants pieces of shit that are designed to sell, not to use.
Let me give you an example… One of the most popular posts on the Dyson YouTube page, is how to get the hose out of the machine. Yes that’s right, they needed a fucking video tutorial for one of the most common complaints, people can’t even use the goddamn things!
And then when you want to repair them, you are looking at 2 hours of meticulously dismanting a giant block of unnecessarily complicated Lego to access one tiny piece.
Dysons are absolute pieces of shit from every measurable perspective. With the exception of one thing: the motors do provide good suction, but they’re nothing special, no more suction than any standard motor. They overhyped the electronic switching of the DC motor to the point that people actually believed it! It’s a fucking standard DC motor!!! Essentialy.
Compare a Dyson’s engineering with a simple device like a Bissell or a shark, which you can completely dismantle and reassemble in like 10 minutes.
You can’t even replace a tiny hose piece on a Dyson without 2 hours, and many specialized tools.
cygnus@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Ironically their timing was almost spot-on for COVID… I could see these being somewhat useful for air travel, for example.
deur@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
That… was the gimmick…
cygnus@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It would be easier to just let us all know you didn’t read the article.
At the time [product launch in 2022] he was bullish about the Zone’s chances: “After six years in development, we’re excited to deliver pure air and pure audio, anywhere.”
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Uh… That’s why they made them.
bieren@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Well, great. Now what will I wear to look like a total idiot in public.
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
For a second, my brain pictured these combined with the only dynamics it knows from Dyson - the air blade thingies. It had a good chuckle picturing me getting a vigorous jet of air right in my schnozz.
RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
who cares
RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Those were dead before they were released.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Dyson was dead to me when James Dyson campaigned for Brexit on the grounds that it would be better for British jobs then, once Brexit was done, moved his whole operation out of the UK to Singapore. And then he whined to the media about how people were being hard on him, calling him things like “hypocrite” or “weasly little wanker the country’s better off without.”
EU referendum: Sir James Dyson says Britain better off out
Brexit backer Dyson says hypocrisy claim over HQ move abroad ‘incredibly harmful’
ultranaut@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I missed that Dyson had sued people for calling him out on his hypocrisy. What a complete piece of shit that guy is.
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
Their headphones are unironically the best in the market so if those headphones stay I’m Gucci
veeesix@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure Dyson killed these themselves the moment they turned these from concept to product.
dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
That and Dyson might just be preemptively killing it in the wake of the FTC forcing Razer to refund buyers of its smart mask
residentmarchant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Almost 7 thousand people bought one?! That’s crazy, it was a meme product!