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I don't believe this people are great inventors. They could be great designers but not inventors. The inventor of the "Dirt Devil vacuum" was Dyson who was the

I don't believe this people are great inventors. They could be great designers but not inventors. The inventor of the "Dirt Devil vacuum" was Dyson who was the one who invented the system this vacuum uses. The same could be said about "Crest Spinbrush". They added another brush. Wow, so hard to imagine! Great inventors revolutionize a product: Dyson completely changed the concept of a vacuum cleaner. Tesla revolutionized the concept of a car. Apple revolutionized the concept of a personal computer and telephone. Igor Reizerson revolutionized the concept of cleaning your teeth. Those Cleveland guys hold a thousand patents over little improvements here and there. Good for them, but don't call yourself inventor. You are not, at least a good one.

clarkmoody 12y ago
> Great inventors revolutionize a product Then those "great inventors" are simply designers, are they not? The revolutionary improvements you list are exactly that -- improvements on an existing product. Even Edison was not the first to create electric light. These guys from the article are taking existing products and making improvements that drastically increase functionality / sales of those products. For some context on one of your comments: > Tesla revolutionized the concept of a car. Third sentence on the Wikipedia article for electric car says, "The first electric cars appeared in the 1880s." I think these guys are doing great work, and whether you call them inventors or designers doesn't matter. They are performing a vital function that not only increases profits for their clients but also improves the user experience for the consumer. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car
xorcist 12y ago
I think several of those "great inventors" are more pop cultural references than actually important their respective fields, at least if you look at it world wide. > Dyson completely changed the concept of a vacuum cleaner. Never heard of. Western european hemisphere here. > Igor Reizerson revolutionized the concept of cleaning your teeth. Not only haven't heard of, doesn't exist on Google. Your other examples I have heard of. But I have yet to see a Tesla on the road. And Apple, while having been very influential in the smartphone market, are hardly revolutionaries in the computer market. If you wanted to critise who is an inventor I think you could do much better. Surely you must have either made some groundbreaking discovery or at least made a dent in your field. Preferrably both.
- DanBC 12y ago
  > Never heard of. Western european hemisphere here. You've never heard of Dyson vacuum cleaners and Dyson "fanless" fans and Dyson handdryers? (Dyson is English).
  - xorcist 12y ago
    No, no, and yes. The hand dryers are not uncommon in restaurants and the like. I had to check the Wikipedia article to see the vacuum in question. It looks like it's one of those "upright" types, and they are pretty much unheard of outside the UK, US and Australia I believe (which is pretty much in line with what the article says). I would have trouble calling what is world wide a niche model revolutionary, unless it is good enough to spread them internationally. It's remarkably interesting to see how such a common house product is so different across cultures which are so similar in other aspects.
rasz_pl 12y ago
Dyson took 100 year old design of industrial saw dust vacuum cleaner and just changed target demographic of a product. He basically went "this 100 year old thing, but on a MOBILE DEVICE!11"

clarkmoody 12y ago

> Great inventors revolutionize a product Then those "great inventors" are simply designers, are they not? The revolutionary improvements you list are exactly that -- improvements on an existing product. Even Edison was not the first to create electric light. These guys from the article are taking existing products and making improvements that drastically increase functionality / sales of those products. For some context on one of your comments: > Tesla revolutionized the concept of a car. Third sentence on the Wikipedia article for electric car says, "The first electric cars appeared in the 1880s." I think these guys are doing great work, and whether you call them inventors or designers doesn't matter. They are performing a vital function that not only increases profits for their clients but also improves the user experience for the consumer. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car

xorcist 12y ago

I think several of those "great inventors" are more pop cultural references than actually important their respective fields, at least if you look at it world wide. > Dyson completely changed the concept of a vacuum cleaner. Never heard of. Western european hemisphere here. > Igor Reizerson revolutionized the concept of cleaning your teeth. Not only haven't heard of, doesn't exist on Google. Your other examples I have heard of. But I have yet to see a Tesla on the road. And Apple, while having been very influential in the smartphone market, are hardly revolutionaries in the computer market. If you wanted to critise who is an inventor I think you could do much better. Surely you must have either made some groundbreaking discovery or at least made a dent in your field. Preferrably both.

DanBC 12y ago
> Never heard of. Western european hemisphere here. You've never heard of Dyson vacuum cleaners and Dyson "fanless" fans and Dyson handdryers? (Dyson is English).
- xorcist 12y ago
  No, no, and yes. The hand dryers are not uncommon in restaurants and the like. I had to check the Wikipedia article to see the vacuum in question. It looks like it's one of those "upright" types, and they are pretty much unheard of outside the UK, US and Australia I believe (which is pretty much in line with what the article says). I would have trouble calling what is world wide a niche model revolutionary, unless it is good enough to spread them internationally. It's remarkably interesting to see how such a common house product is so different across cultures which are so similar in other aspects.

rasz_pl 12y ago

Dyson took 100 year old design of industrial saw dust vacuum cleaner and just changed target demographic of a product. He basically went "this 100 year old thing, but on a MOBILE DEVICE!11"