It's the only object I know that has it's own feeling. You cant be rough with it, or else it will let you know how angry it is by coincidentally not able to print your assignment that is due 8a.m. in the morning.
yes the problem in life is people just give super-generic advice like ''never give up'' and not specific advice for the thing you actually want to get into.
@@uniqueprogressive9908 ill agree for general printing, inkjets are a waste and damaging to the environment, but even then both printers need an overhaul. Inkjet printing with pigments for long term documents and images will outperform most current lasers. We need a whole new type of medium and printer for archival purposes.
I was thinking something right along those lines. Like, seriously, what kind of an awesome lecture was I just given, that I didn't even notice it was a lecture
@@lilmucus4946 Because anything he does is done explicitly to sell Dyson products. The people at Wired reached out to the Dyson PR people and said “hey can we get Mr. Dyson to answer questions? It will showcase how cool Dyson products are and give the brand some push with younger folks who watch our videos”.
@Steven Seagal He is the inventor of the Dyson products. Dyson brand is mostly known for its premium quality, high end and very expensive vacuum cleaners. I'll be honest, my Dyson vacuum cleaner is the best I've ever owned compared to any other brand.
@Steven Seagal all those cool air dryers in public bathrooms were mostly invented by him. Also any time you see those cool expensive vacuum cleaners or the fans with no external blades those are him as well.
Probably the best interview/Answers so far. He leaps off the screen with his eloquent and articulate manner. It is very apparent that he is simply a genius.
Shame that he was one of the main funders of the campaign for Britain to leave the EU - only to then take all of his factories out of the UK anyway. Scumbag.
@@deogracias3650 round lenses make for the least lens thickness needed, which results in lesser "optical deformation" (in lack of a better word for me) of the eye, and to lower weight of the eyeglasses. He has quite strong lenses, so his choice so I believe has a good reason.
This was so entertaining, I had no idea the person behind Dyson was a true, genuine and passionate inventor. And to see him speak so nicely about independent designers and the unfair problems they face was amazing!
@@BigBoiiLeem it would require people to be willing to pay up front for the hidden costs that are currently recouperated by screwing people over with the ink cartridges.
@@Novacification I'd be willing to do that, if it meant that 1. The printer just worked the way it should and was high quality and 2. The printer used refillable cartridges and ink bottles, instead of single-use
Honestly, Someone should start paying this guy to do voice overs on documentaries and such. He has a nearly perfect, calm and well pronounced voice, that is just distinctive enough to be memorable.
I mean, I agree with you, but that would be like paying Elon Musk to throw you a house party. Elon Musk knows how to party, but good luck trying to get him to throw you one :)
James Dyson: Makes legendary household appliances like vacums and hair dryers Also James Dyson: Loves his cast aluminum pencil sharper. The little things in life.
Passionate about avoiding paying much tax too - going off his behind the scenes messages with the british PM. So he's yet another wealth hoarding billionaire who lobbies to reduce tax - how original: selfishness as a virtue. Happy to enjoy the benefits of civilisation - just not when it comes to paying for it apparently.
He is selling "fanless fans" with fans with apple style of margins. You would be smiling also. And dyson sphere, common way used in mining by centrifugal forces. Nothing bad in it but just a good marketer. Liken Elon.
every idiot can explain something complicated in a complicated way. A genius is someone being able to explain something complicated in an easy to understand way.
5500 attempts and he did what was deemed impossible. I love it. Reminds me of that quote “I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure.”
4:16 - Reminds me of the story of Marvin Pipkin, a chemist who started working for GE. GE used to assign newhires the joke/impossible task of frosting lightbulbs - He wasn't aware it was supposed to be impossible and he developed an etching acid which not only frosted the bulbs on the inside but strengthened the glass. Never start out with too many assumptions - they will stop you before can even get started. E.g. 'They said this is impossible - so why try?'
What I immediately noticed about the pencil sharpener, with its vertical orientation and its graphite colour, is that you “dip” your pencil in it as one would dip a quill pen in an inkwell, recharging your utensil with its colour. Ready to draw. I LOVE that.
Yes. And that's good know for the product. But as of today dyson products don't outperform cheaper counterparts, soundwise and in terms of airflow. So it became more so like a "own it for the status" brand
He voted to leave the EU though so that kinda negates so much. Can’t stand the thought of wanting to leave the EU so he can hope (and I imagine he speaks to government folk) to financially benefit him and himself only. Unlike the rest of us who researched it and found it weakened protections for the most vulnerable and opted to help them too. Nah. Can’t trust any Leave voter. They just come across as greedy.
What I learned today... Dyson is a man and not just the name of a company. 😅 Such a good video! Loved getting to know who this man is and the impact he has had. Loved hearing his perspective on things.
There's a video on the Thames TV channel of James Dyson in 1983 with his first dual cyclonic vacuum cleaner, 5 years after he started prototyping it in 1978 and 10 years before the first mass-market version of it in 1993.
No wonder he's done so well for himself, so incredibly smart and insightful! What he said about naivety being good was so refreshing to hear, employers are always looking for experience, it's so hard for people to start their careers.
Sending messages to Prime Ministers to change tax laws might be another reason too. Behind every billionaire is a mountain of tax they didn't pay. Or inherited.
I can’t tell you how many times my friends children helped me solve my problems in my math major! I had gotten so stuck in a certain perspective I couldn’t see the obvious right in front of me!
I love how he said, "These are the right questions to be answering." Because in design, often times, you have to ask the right question to solve a problem.
Gotta love how even he acknowledges that copyright and patent laws have completely failed their original purpose and are only useful to already big and rich companies by this point
I have a feeling that's part of the reason why he voted brexit. However there is still much hubris on his part that our politicians would do a better job than the EU
Jose Ortega, at his next job interview: "Yes, I lack experience, but I think experts think they know it all, but they're inhibited by their knowledge." "you can go."
7:55 I think what Sharron Paul wanted to hear is: The bladeless fan has a fan with blades. It's inside the enclosure and it pushes the air out of the slit.
That’s exactly why I wrote it off, but his explanation makes me think I was wrong. If the air pushed by the blades in the base is 1/20 of the airflow, then maybe the circular part *is* the fan
Despite the high cost, my Dyson vacuum was one of my best purchases. Simple and practical design, makes vacuuming fun and easy. Plus, I always get compliments on it
@@1SSJA Most likely. I worked customer care at an online fashion retailer, and I now hate most fashion brands with a passion (Superdry logistics can go frick themselves)
i've got 2 patents and i'm absolutely appalled by the patenting system. they will go through patents all over the world before they register yours, but when they do - your invention is only protected in your country! anyone can copy it as long as they do it outside your country. making an international patent is simply too expensive and yet, even though it's called "international", you have to apply for patent in every single country in which you plan to sell your stuff! and you have to pay for it every single year. small inventors like me are simply hostages of the system. you can't compete with corporations and they can either steal your thing and produce it in whatever country where your thing isn't protected, or use this fact as leverage to pay you less for your patent than you deserve. it's absolutely appalling.. that's why most of patents we see are design patents that only last for 5 years and they become irrelevant anyway, like a car exterior or a phone design - every one gets patented every time. but it's done mostly for protection against patent scammers which is yet another hole in this whole patenting system.. the rare real inventions are usually in pharmaceuticals today, things you can't easily copy (or even comprehend), but it's rare.
@@roland9367 that depends on the idea and what you plan to do with it later. It is best to hire a patent lawyer (there's probably a name for it in english) - he will do the search if similar ideas have already been patented, prepare documents (with a bunch of engineering slang), submit it and guide the rest of the process. So it's more about the $ rather than time really. Also, you should remember that if you publish your idea anywhere it becomes public knowledge in 6 months and you can't patent it afterwards (assuming the people in patent bureau find it at public sources cuz they will also be searching for similar ideas, drawings or whatever)..
Yes there's nothing revolutionary about it, just different packaging. It works on the same principal as a leaf blower or compressed air duster. You have a small high-pressure jet of air that causes the surrounding air to be sucked into the stream, increasing the flow and decreasing the velocity.
@@MattBlank0 It's supposedly rather silent and the air is allegedly flowing more steadily. The sound of a regular fan can be annoying to me. But that's it.
@@kryptonitegoingreen7457 well said. selling things that other ones invented and even commercialized ages before him. but i admire him either way. salesman expert.
sometimes selling too much snake oil but it comes with the territory with that kind of people. kind of like elon musk. but world need good sellers as it need incentives to innovate.
This guy is such a great engineer. Saw a video a while ago where he presents some new products. Dude knew every little spec by heart and knows *exactly* how it works. I love to see such a hands-on CEO.
@@Molemanski he is a marketing expert and a random good engineer. who is in the place of a ceo... if a lead engineer don't know his stuff, he isn't an engineer
This man is a national treasure. He manages to sound intelligent and humble. There is nothing Dyson produces that isn’t good, and they have shaped and created entire industries and pushed boundaries on stuff we use we very day now; batteries and electric brushless motors. Dyson know more about battery management and cells than most tech companies let alone EV producers.
The answer to the thumbnail question is: Dyson's bladeless fan is not bladeless. It just hides its perfectly normal bladed blower-fan inside the base of the appliance, and distributes it to the ring with ducts, at very low efficiency.
@@yega3k Induced flow isn't magic, and it exists in bladed fans too. Doesn't change the power/efficiency dynamics of spending so much power on friction. At best you have a low-power fan for people who hate low-frequency blade turbulence.
@@NitroLemons I think they're joking that something Dyson said in the full q&a session would result in him getting #MeToo'd for inappropriate conduct. ...which is honestly a very weird and revealing joke to immediately jump to.
Last question/answer - YES! I’ve been arguing exactly that for years, with very poor results. Designers and engineers scoff at one-another, while that should be one - a coherent unit. Design must follow engineering and engineering must allow design. Thank you, I will play that to all my students, so they don’t think I’m an old craizie.
It's funny how Dyson mentioned that he managed to defy the experts' opinions when developing his cyclonic vacuum cleaner separation systems, and then a few questions later, he gave his expert opinion on why noisy hand dryers are difficult to avoid. That said, I'm sure that he's very supportive of potential innovations that can make hand dryers become quieter (as what his own company is attempting to do).
I spent 5 years in Dyson's UK RDD department and the amount of time, effort and money that's being spent researching sound diffusion and suppression by the Acoustics Team is quite something. If anyone discovers a way to silence high powered air flow is will be Dyson.
I subconsciously associate quiet hand dryers with weakness. I think of older hand dryers that blow a negligible amount of air and heat and leave all the water on my hands. I want the jet turbine blast offs of the Xcelerators or Dyson Blades.
Could listen to him answering questions all day, super chilled, intelligent and straight to the point! Love it! Also very well spoken english ! Just admiration ! 👍🏻✔️
@@redrob6026 I wonder if you could have it so that the page stays in the same spot, and its just the printhead that moves. That would prevent paperjams, but then you'd be at risk of the printhead jamming. Still since the printhead doesn't have obstructions (paper) in it constantly, that should be less jammy I would think. A tiny fist could punch the top sheet into the receptacle tray when each page finishes, and then it just prints on the next page down so the stack never moves.
I like this interview. As an engineer myself, it was very insightful to see the issues that exist in designing a new product. James Dyson did an amazing job in the interview and it was particularly fascinating for him to give candid answers. Well done James :)
That's so nice, besides learning alot of new things, I enjoy this episode of 'Support' because of how calm yet approachable, and understandable it is. Thanks to everyone who participated in it's making, especially the genius himself~
More like the opposite person. James Dyson being the one with good ideas while Tim Cook is the expert of obvious bad ideas that he will have to reverse in the coming years.
Yeah that one struck a chord with me too. As an engineer who was always more interested in design, I was pretty bummed when I graduated and realized how few design focused jobs were available. So now I'm in grad school lol, they let me design stuff here.
As someone who designs and builds things for fun. I have to agree with James, Design and Engineering are indeed something that should be the same. These days not everyone are so simple, they want something that works but they want it to look good too, so why only study one subject or the other?
It's complicated. Generally you would want to have all kinds of people. You need experts who know everything in their very narrow field. The depth of knowledge can be critical for some products. But there are specialities that are all about combination. I, for example, studied mechanical, electrical engineering, robotics, programming, and basics of business & design.
I think it will continue to evolve that way and maybe we will get there. At the moment, the amount of knowledge and concerns involved in just designing the functional part of, say, a software system, are just so complex that a lot of the engineers don't want to take holistic view of designing the "interface" part.
Bruh, you can't have cheap products if you combine design into everything that is engineered. Some things need to be cheap or most people wont have them. Good philosphy for rich buyers and expensive luxury items but who want to pay more money if they same thing they get fits better? Not poor people that's who. What poor person you know has a dyson anything?
This was awesome to watch. I literally want to go out and buy a Dyson product now because of this man, great information, super genuine and you can tell he is a true engineer and pioneer, and cool dude
I have never designed a product but I have helped customers design their rooms and electronic systems. I like to think that if you are really good at your job then sometimes you know what the customer wants even if they say they don't. Unfortunately that can often include down-selling which obviously no one wants to do. A lot of the time "less is more" even if money wasn't an option. Even if the customer insists they want all the bells and whistles.
Someone should've asked him how he thinks Brexit is going after he pushed for it, chatting about the great British workforce, only to move Dyson headquarters to Singapore a couple years later.
Nothing to do with Brexit. Many manufacturing businesses in Europe are moving production to Far East as it is too expensive to be based in Europe anymore. Dyson is doing the same. As well as the issue of closeness to suppliers, suitable skilled labour etc.
Tell us how much he has actually done and then compare those things he has done to inventions like the mobile phone, MRI, aeroplanes, submarines, LLMs, etc.
This is a man who invented and designed everything he is accredited for yet ironically like he says about the mini, because he isn't flashy or focused on pr he has obviously sold well but isn't given the same credit as Steve jobs or musk
I looked up things he has invented and there different things compared to what Elon is into inventing. Not saying his inventions aren’t important but I think people get more excited about phones and rockets compared to vacuums.
@@taylortoggaf8543 Elon hasn't "invented" anything. He has invested in specific technologies but to credit him with inventing anything is like saying Ashton Kutcher invented Twitter.
I hope one of the questions was “why did you push for Brexit only to move your Uk manufacturing to Singapore conveniently after they signed a Free Trade agreement with the EU?”
I respect the fact that he admitted most of his prototypes fail. I wonder how many bladeless fan prototypes he went through before finding one that worked.
Dyson is a great engineer and designer. too bad his products are sold at such a high margin. The blade-less fan pretty much loses to a 30 dollars fan, the rest of the products have some fierce competition. The good thing is that without Dyson's innovation we probably wouldn't have such a diverse market.
Their hand dryers are horrible and 4x the price of their competition, but they created demand and caused their competition to produce much better products than they had before.
Yeah, he isn't so much an inventor as he his a marketing genius. That vaccum tech been around for many years before him, just not in a small form factor. Need big waves to make the market change course.
The 'blade-less' fans aren't blade-less at all... they're just a different shape & hidden in the body. If you put your vacuum cleaner on 'blow' it's the same thing.
I didn't realize design and engineering were that separate. I have nothing to do with either, but in my imagination, it feels clunky to separate them, especially when creating something new. There's probably efficient processes for all of this, though.
There are some valid points to separate as they have different objectives. Engineers think production, practical result, cost and more and designer not so much
im straight up going to buy a dyson. i love the respect and care this man showed, he really gave 100 on this interview. I also heavily relate to him and his funny moments lmaoaoa.
Your last statement about design/engineer separation just shows reality. As a machinist, engineer, production designer, salesman or what ever is needed it is my personal belief that too much separation between any of these causes severe inefficiency in any system.
@@arvs7356 I've read your reply five times, and I still can't figure out what the difference is between 'blade-less' and 'blade-free'. Can you explain?
Three minutes in and I can confidently say that this is one of - or maybe - the best _____ Support videos on this channel. The aluminium pen(cil) case with the sharpener function was magical.
