NASA's plans for a quiet supersonic jet, the QueSST, just became tangible: the agency and Lockheed Martin have started wind tunnel tests for the future X-plane. It's a scale model at this stage, but it will be subjected to winds as high as Mach 1.6 (...
Ever since my teenage years, I've been fascinated by the story of how a clogged-up Hoover led Sir James Dyson on a five-year journey in which he built 5,127 prototypes and almost went bankrupt before finally coming up with the world's first bagless v...
James Dyson is one designer who pushes boundaries more than anyone out there. If there’s one designer you must look up to, it’s James Dyson and the culture he set up: To innovate alongside design, and like no other! Dyson’s name became a household one after they announced the Bladeless Fan, an appliance that used Dyson’s proprietary technology to emit a single stream of air while also multiplying it, by harnessing the air around it. It only made sense for that technology to see applications in other appliances. In comes the Dyson Supersonic, a hairdryer as advanced as its name. Using Dyson’s Air Multiplier technology, the Hair Dryer is like no other, taking design and engineering to an absolutely different level.
The design reflect’s Dyson’s clean and crisp style. The magic lies in the signature hole that runs through the hair dryer design. On the technology front, Dyson left no stone unturned, with a motor so small, it fits in the handle, and so quiet, you won’t even notice! A microprocessor reads the air temperature 20 times a second to ensure that it remains consistent, boasting of a user experience that only Dyson can ensure!
Obviously all this comes at a price. The Supersonic is priced at which seems like a lot, but once you understand what has gone into making the world’s best hair dryer, maybe you’ll shell out the cash!
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Dyson is no stranger to making gadgets that are good at sucking, but what about gadgets that blow? Turns out they are pretty good at that too. Dyson has unveiled their new Supersonic hair dryer with the aim blow the competition away. And unlike their vacuum cleaners, it doesn’t suck.
This high-tech styling device uses a quiet and powerful motor, sensors and a microcontroller that checks the temperature 20 times a second, as well as Dyson’s air multiplier technology. The aim is to dry hair more quickly. It is also lighter and less awkward than other hair dryers since the design moved the motor into the handle rather than the head. It is nicely balanced because of this and more comfortable to hold.
It also has a more modern design. Women are going to love this device – though I’m not sure how many of them will pay $400 for a hair dryer.
Dyson teased the event by sending out tiny, sharp motor parts to journalists (including this one), but now we get to see the rest of the thing. Unsurprisingly, the company's first foray into beauty is, perhaps predictably, it's a hairdryer. The Super...
There's a good reason why it still takes hours to fly cross-country: supersonic airplanes are still so noisy that it's utterly impractical to fly them over populated areas. That's why the Concorde was largely relegated to overseas flights, after all...
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NASA has awarded a key contract for its New Aviation Horizons X-plane initiative, bringing supersonic passenger travel a step closer (back) to reality. The space agency will give Lockheed Martin $20 million to complete the preliminary design for its...
Unless you are a billionaire playboy or a business magnet of some sort, odds are you fly Coach like the rest of us when you travel by air. For the well-heeled, it’s First Class all the way, but for the really rich it’s private jets. A company called Spike Aerospace has a new private jet in the design phase it claims will be the fastest private aircraft in the skies – assuming it launches in 2018 as planned.
The 18-passenger aircraft is called the Spike S-512 and it will have a cruising speed of Mach 1.6. That makes it about twice as fast as a commercial aircraft. The company says a trip to London from New York would take three to four hours in its jet.
One of the biggest challenges to building the aircraft is dealing with the sonic boom when flying over populated areas. The FAA has regulations for sonic booms and those regulations are what greatly limited the usefulness of the Concorde jet when it was in service.
The 131-foot-long aircraft is expected to have a maximum flying range of 4,000 nautical miles, and will between $60 million to $80 million when it launches.
NASA's plans for a quiet supersonic jet, the QueSST, just became tangible: the agency and Lockheed Martin have started wind tunnel tests for the future X-plane. It's a scale model at this stage, but it will be subjected to winds as high as Mach 1.6 (...
Ever since my teenage years, I've been fascinated by the story of how a clogged-up Hoover led Sir James Dyson on a five-year journey in which he built 5,127 prototypes and almost went bankrupt before finally coming up with the world's first bagless v...
Today on In Case You Missed It: YouTuber Colin Furze teamed up with Ford to build a working hoverbike within just a few weeks, from his shed. It runs off of two diesel engines so granted, it's probably not the most mass-production friendly item, bu...
Dyson teased the event by sending out tiny, sharp motor parts to journalists (including this one), but now we get to see the rest of the thing. Unsurprisingly, the company's first foray into beauty is, perhaps predictably, it's a hairdryer. The Super...
There's a good reason why it still takes hours to fly cross-country: supersonic airplanes are still so noisy that it's utterly impractical to fly them over populated areas. That's why the Concorde was largely relegated to overseas flights, after all...
Today on In Case You Missed It: NASA gave Lockheed Martin $20 million to make a preliminary design of a supersonic jetliner that will break the sound barrier without a sonic boom. Stanford students are putting a self-driving Audi through a race cou...
NASA has awarded a key contract for its New Aviation Horizons X-plane initiative, bringing supersonic passenger travel a step closer (back) to reality. The space agency will give Lockheed Martin $20 million to complete the preliminary design for its...
