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Dyson has announced it will develop a new type of medical ventilator for NHS
- annadane 7y agoOh. That Dyson.
- Wistar 7y agoWas 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.
- hnick 7y agoMaybe they've improved but my DC59 seems to have many design flaws. Hair and dust gets stuck in the weirdest places, requiring a screwdriver to clean properly (or the power just cuts off due to blockages). The connection between the motorised head, tube, and the main body also seems to be insecure. Normal forward and back motion will interrupt the connection and it stops spinning. For such an expensive product, I'm not happy with the replacement parts I've had to buy for that issue.
- novok 7y agoI've had a refurb V7 for a couple of years now, and never had any of your problems. Maybe the DC59 suffers from V1 types of problems? I chose the V7 because it was the cheapest / oldest model with the new ejection mechanism.
- hnick 7y agoIt could be, or maybe we just had bad luck too. I don't think the design of the motorised head was good at all, since as I said I found hair and dust got through the cracks into the housing and I needed star shaped screwdrivers to get in there and clean it. And the main body has a flimsy flap that opens/closes with airflow, but it gets stuck very easily with our dust situation. So I have to pick at it down the tube (awkward), unscrew it, or hope running water flushes it (tends to just consolidate the dust into paste). If the flap stops moving the motor cuts off every few seconds. Overall it was great for a year or two but for the price (and based on our consumer laws here in AU) I'd expect 5-10 years of service for such a vacuum cleaner. It now needs a lot of TLC and cleaning compared to our bagged Miele roller.
- Wistar 7y agoInteresting. I have had my V10 for about 16 months and, short-battery life aside, it has been flawless. I also have a bagged Miele and the Dyson vacuums circles around it, extracting far more dirt from carpeting. Night and day difference. I will say the general build quality of the Miele seems superior in the classic sense but I think I'd have to use it 5X as much as the Dyson for the same results.
- hnick 7y agoYeah I'm willing to accept they improved over the years, I'm just reticent on getting another based on experience. We use our Miele cat&dog model less than we should, but when we do it's noticeably stronger. Cord & bag is just inconvenient after you get used to the Dyson for daily touch ups (I swear my dog puts 90% of his calories into hair production).
- GeekyBear 7y agoTheir products are also built like a tank. I've gotten 20 years of use out of their original upright vacuum model so far.
- Polylactic_acid 7y agoidk about the newer designs. I'm using a roughly 8 year old DC39 and it has been to the repair center multiple times for replacement motors and other parts. The plastic attachments are failing now so I'm not sure how much longer this vac will last.
- majewsky 7y agoI 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.
- Ididntdothis 7y agoI have a V7 and it’s excellent. Really well thought out. Feels a little like if Apple made a vacuum cleaner.
- krrrh 7y agoI agree. The real win is that it’s so light and convenient that you just end up vacuuming more frequently or doing spot cleaning when you notice something. It ends up being a difference in kind rather than degree.
- benmarks 7y agoHow much does that cost? /j But seriously, good to see so many companies stepping up to just get things done, and to see (more or less) regulations being set aside or handled speedily.
- martyvis 7y agoAnyone seen any info on the Dyson AirBlades used for hand-drying in public restrooms? They are very effective at drying , but flick a lot of water up and onto the unit. I guess if everyone has properly washed their hands the WHO way, the rinse water should be safe, but I'm still wondering whether you are risking getting virus from the previous possibly infected person who also doesn't know the words to Happy Birthday.
- satysin 7y agoI 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.
- flir 7y agoTotally agreed. Can't get my hands in and out of them without brushing the sides. It's not easy to take something terrible (a hand dryer) and make it worse. Since this pandemic, I've just stopped using them altogether.
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- Polylactic_acid 7y agoThey have an alternative version that solves this issue. I'm not sure if this is a successor or alt product though. https://www.dyson.com.au/hand-dryers/airblade-v.aspx https://www.dyson.com.au/hand-dryers/airblade-v.aspx
- sjwright 7y agoStill looks like a great way to aerosolize the content of people's insufficiently washed hands. Yeesh.
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- jacquesm 7y agoThere is a very dark joke in here somewhere given how well Dyson airblades spread bacteria and other crap around.
- 762236 7y agoI submitted a support question to them about the safety of their airblades, and they never responded.
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- wbl 7y agoWhy can't they copy the old Bird ventilator or similar?
- arcticbull 7y ago> 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 year from ideation to first delivery. You want new ones fast, you get the manufacturers who make existing ones make more of them. The problem isn't that we're out of ventilator designs, it's that we're out of physical ventilators. This feels like Elon's child-rescue submarine, and at least as far as COVID-19 it's likely to save exactly the same number of people.
- cbhl 7y agoI was under the impression that the NHS had been sourcing ventilators from a French manufacturer, but France decided to nationalize that manufacturer and stop exports. Although I do wonder how much of a home-built solution will be "designed" versus, say "jury-rigged".
- freepor 7y agoWhen you need more than the existing manufacturers can produce, and the alternative (Italy) is to let them die in a hallway, then you might be willing to try anything. If it was my life I’d prefer the Dyson over nothing.
- 7thaccount 7y agoYes. This. Incredibly desperate times here.
- arcticbull 7y agoIf it's that desperate force companies to make them. Don't pin your hopes and dreams on a fantasy that you can build a large-scale medical device in two weeks.
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- cityzen 7y agoOnly $600 per mask!
- nodesocket 7y agoI 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 from US companies for the most part, not from government (excluding capital stimulus). For this reason, we should all be supporting a fiscal package that stimulates business and corporations to get out of this.
- erikpukinskis 7y agoWhat do you think red tape is? And why do you think it applies to government workers but not private workers?
- olivermarks 7y agoUnfortunately I think Dyson is a blowhard (sorry about pun) and self promoter. This hack of a Decathlon Scuba mask is the sort of thing these manufacturers should be presenting to the world rather than their endless brand promotion. https://www.isinnova.it/easy-covid19-eng/ https://www.isinnova.it/easy-covid19-eng/
- DrNuke 7y agoLol... just copycat the fastest and cheapest approved model for the high numbers you need? Dyson doing a Dyson is soooo smug or exceptionalist again. Sigh
- dguaraglia 7y agoTo 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 designs. Neither option would be favored by either UK or US right now, because the cult of free enterprise is more important than human loss.
- tim333 7y agoBoris could just say they are not going to enforce copyright etc during the crisis.
- dguaraglia 7y agoHe could, but he won't. This is Boris 'we need to leave the EU because too much government' Johnson.
- ElijahLynn 7y agoThis title is misleading, first line of article says: "Dyson has announced it will develop a new type of medical ventilator". "WILL DEVELOP", NOT "DEVELOPS".
- brigandish 7y agoI'm reading the comments and people are questioning the ability to get them done in 14 days or whichever absurdly short space of time you'd want to pick. There is no evidence this pandemic will be over at any time in the near or long term future, just a thus far folorn hope. For all we know it will persist for a couple of waves of death, then as a mutation, year on year. The fragility of our health systems has been exposed and the ability of manufacturers to ramp up production, or even share designs[0] so they can be fixed in the meantime, has also been show to be lacking so some competition in the space to a) produce more ventilators b) hopefully produce better ventilators c) make them cheaper cannot be a bad thing. The chances of having an antiviral or vaccine before Dyson completes a viable ventilator are also pie in the sky, so pick your horse and back it, it's all going to be too late for too many. [0] Italians Found Way to 3-D Print Key Ventilator Piece for $1 to Help Battle Coronavirus—So the Company With the Patent Is Threatening to Sue https://citizentruth.org/italians-found-way-to-3-d-print-key-ventilator-piece-for-1-to-help-battle-coronavirus-so-the-company-with-the-patent-is-threatening-to-sue/ https://citizentruth.org/italians-found-way-to-3-d-print-key...
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- ineedasername 7y agoWhy would it be easier/faster for a company to make their own design than for existing manufacturers to scale up production? Wouldn't it make more sense to throw resources at scaling existing production than new designs which would, themselves, then need to have production scaled up anyway?
- GeekyBear 7y agoI've mentioned it before, but there is already an American company that makes a simplified and hardened version of a ventilator that is aimed at meeting surge demand during a pandemic. http://www.alliedhpi.com/mcv.htm http://www.alliedhpi.com/mcv.htm They have already gone through the regulatory approval process and the cheapest model was retailing at about $3,000 and not the $50,000 number Ive seen tossed about for models with all the modern bells and whistles. When you need to ramp up production quickly, simpler is better.
- ineedasername 7y agoReading that page I'm actually astounded we don't have 100,000 of them stockpiled around the country.
- Cantbekhan 7y agoAnd I suppose it "doesn't lose breathing" ? Sorry I had to ...
- Glench 7y agoOnce this pandemic is past, I hope industries will retool the same way in developing decarbonizing technologies.
- jerome-jh 7y agoHoping it is not as loud as their vacuum cleaners, hand dryers ;)