Posts Tagged ‘ invention ’

Little pleasures #7: The Dyson Airblade

May 15th, 2009 | By leimrod | Category: Thought

Being 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.

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Little pleasures #4: Escalators

Mar 23rd, 2009 | By leimrod | Category: Thought

Right now you are saying “What? How can he find escalators a little pleasure?”. Well here’s why. Being educated as an engineer I tend to look at things and see their functionality first. I’d say I’m largely against the ideal of “form before function” in that I’d rather have a candle on my mantle then a functionless statue. At least the candle is functional and already in place should the power go out, it also has form that is appealing but does not outweigh its function.

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