Little pleasures #7: The Dyson Airblade
May 15th, 2009 | By leimrod | Category: ThoughtBeing an engineer by education I guess I tend to see the form and function of objects first, and nothing pleases me more than an invention that effectively accomplishes both. An invention that innovates and makes something better while retaining a form that is pleasing to the human eye.
At a recent expo, unrelated to engineering, I needed to use the facilities and found they had removed the old hot air hand driers and drag down towel dispensers with a Dyson Airblade. The name sounds pretentious and overly markety (Bill Hicks would have a field day), but it’s function more than makes up for this.
