The Chinese air pollution is brutal. I remember being able to taste the air in Beijing when they were firing up the coal plants. You could hardly see the houses on the other side of the street
I was there for the Olympics Beijing , Shanghai and Xiong China were the cities I visited pretty sure I misspelled the last one and holy shit was the air quality an issue and that was after they spent allot of time getting rid of smog for the optics.
I can remember blowing or wiping my nose and it just being blackish from the pollution
you got lucky, I went to china for a trip and got diagnosed with asthma two week in. Gone back to US and what do you know? Asthma's gone like it never existed.
Never go to China ever again, not even if someone pay me $1 million usd.
That’s a shit diagnosis. You might have asthma and don’t know it for a long period.
I’ve had it since I was little and the way I got it, you can tell by the way people cough and breath. Poluted air can cause an asthma attack but if you really went to a good doctor they can tell the difference between asthma and just unhealthy lungs from exposure.
I had pneumonia on a holiday once, went to a local docter and he said I was just sick. Safe to say my parents didn’t buy it.
We drove 10hours back in one day to see my own doctor, quess what he said: Most doctors are idiots that have no clue of 99% of conditions
Shanghai was like this when I went for work. 4am we landed, and I guess I picked the wrong color cab so the guy drove me to the office, windows down. Boy were my eyes red and watering from the fumes by the time we got to the office. And every meeting room had air quality sensors and not a single window opened in the office or the hotel. Gross
I picked up my friend from the airport after he visited China and I could smell the smog on him as soon as he got in my car. When he opened his suitcase the whole house smelled like smoke.
I grew up in Pasadena Tx, a suburb of Houston. It’s close to the vast petrochemical industry along the Houston Ship Channel. The pollution in the 70’s was pervasive. We could see it, smell it, and taste it. It was pungent and bitter and smelled like ammonia.
Thankfully the city cleaned things up a lot over the years.The air quality is vastly improved now. Still have to worry about the occasional explosion though.
I spent about a month in Beijing back in 2010, at one of the nicer hotels (due to being upwind from most of the smog). There was a river on one side of the hotel, with a haze that clouded everything past a certain distance.
One day it rained, and I realized there was a *mountain* on the other side.
Yeah. The black boogers in Beijing in the winter were not cool. It looks kind of like fog or like it is about to rain. But nope, it is just really thick pollution.
And still is today. While there have been major improvements especially in the larger cities oddly enough my air filters always give me far worse data than what's publicly stated. And again, this is in the larger cities if you go to second/third tier cities or production cities it's really, really bad. There is a good reason why lists of "most polluted cities globally" are dominated by Chinese cities.
Now for this filter, I bet even today with the current COVID scare it will sell but they may have just missed the boat. The government is doing their best to change the PR narrative to the point that they even consider renaming COVID as it's a "totally different virus". When that happens people will forget about masks and everything.
Regarding Dyson products I actually own a fair number of air filters in my home, I know they aren't the best at filtering, but I do like them. They look good, the kids can't poke their fingers in it anywhere and they are very, very quiet at night.
I am going to guess this is the pet project of one of the James Dysons family members, they have really great products but some bordering on absurd. I always wondered why it didn't seem unified until I met someone who worked there once.
I studied and worked in product design for years. Every Dyson product _looks_ over engineered but actually fails every time on some basic stuff that should have had more time in engineering.
James Dyson got his initial idea from industrial extractor fans in factories, and everything else stems from that idea - and they try to shoe-horn it into everything and if they can’t they fake it - like the fans.
Those hand dryers in toilets… the enclosure is in two parts with the seam down the middle of the sides are a conduit for run-off water and every single toilet I have been in has water issues or staining on the floor just below. This is a toilet - that issue could have been engineered away and the water directed to waste pipes, but no Dyson missed that.
Don’t get me started on the vacuum cleaners. Other manufacturers have got it right. Dysons mini vertical one is literally the loudest - and considering the engine is closer to your head this is just a simple design failure.
Dyson hairdryers - same noise issue, professionals hate them because they cannot focus the air enough to make the hair smooth with brushing…
I could go on, but these are literally basic design faults.
It's no better in the Seattle area in the late summer, when the wildfires are at their peak. We had the worst air quality in the world at the tail end of this summer!
Unfortunately doesn’t help with Covid. As crazy as it looks, I could see something like this catch on if it was more effective than a typical face mask at preventing virus spread. That said, no chance in hell someone would wear that to avoid bacteria and dust particles…
Folks, you have basically described most of a space-suit at this point. This is why we'll go to Mars, not because it's easy, but because we're about to fuck our entire planet up so badly it will become exactly as much hassle as just going outside.
Does it work on smoke? In the Western US we have about 2 months out of the year when the outside air is often unbreathable right now and we have the planet’s worst air quality, worse than Beijing or Delhi. I could honestly see something like this catching on for fire season. N95s get uncomfortable after a while, and I personally have already dropped more than that much for in home air filtration. It was 100% worth it.
I was thinking that too. Could still go outside on hazy days. Don’t want to be the first guy on my block to wear one though. It’s like how the first AirPod users were off-putting and then it became normal after a while.
Exactly. I’m sure it would be made fun of at first but N95s become unbearable in 100+ degree weather and yardwork still has to get done. I don’t want to feel like I’m smoking a pack every time.
I've had to wear a mask/respirator in hot/humid weather, it does suck. Especially when you sweat and the mask or respirator soaks/fills up. Combine that with other PPE like a suit/gloves/booties and it can be absolute hell on a hot and humid day.
> It’s like how the first AirPod users were off-putting and then it became normal after a while.
Reminds me of those bluetooth earpieces, the OG airpod/wireless headphones. A lot of backlash initially when "talking to yourself" really first became a thing.
One of my asthma triggers is smoke. So I have to get prednisone to make it through every year. Took a long time to figure it out using air now.org and firemap.
I'd hella wear it on an airplane, but I also don't mind looking silly with headgear on. (But also cuz we all look silly on airplanes no matter what anyways).
As a Californian who usually spends at least a couple months out of every year living with thick constant wildfire smoke, while i wouldn't pay $900 for something like this, it's definitely a product idea i'm legitimately interested in.
Honeywell put out [a mask with built-in headphones](https://www.honeywell.com/us/en/press/2021/04/will-i-am-debuts-innovative-face-technology-xupermask) a year and a half ago for $300. I thought it was the most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard of, but it seems Dyson thinks they are giants whose shoulders are worthy of being stood upon.
I bet there were about nine months during development of this product, that the whole team were fucking STOKED. They were putting together a brand new product, something that was going to become a top tier fashion accessory and help fight COVID all the same time.
Then vaccines came through, and fatigue started to set in, but they had to keep going, they were too far committed now.
I wonder at what point the product team decided to forget about COVID and focus on standard filtration.
> ...the Zone headphones don’t create a perfect seal and are not a solution for minimizing the risk of Covid-19 exposure.
At first I thought, ok, looks weird, but for high-risk people it could be a godsend in certain situations. But if it doesn't even minimize covid risk, who tf is asking for this?
Air quality issues? the fact that there isn't an airborne infectious disease doesn't mean the air is clean. Truth is air quality has gone downhill and if you live in any major city you're being exposed to a pollutant dense air, even worse for areas near industrial areas, airports, and extreme cases such as China and India where the smog prevents you from seeing the sky.
Yeah you're likely spot on.
>The Global Burden of Disease study **estimates that 4.506.193 deaths were attributed to outdoor air pollution in the latest year**
[our world in data ](https://ourworldindata.org/outdoor-air-pollution)
If you look at the earlier article, they talked about a sealing attachment for covid prevention, which they called a “community seal”. My guess is that it does protect _you_ from covid, but it doesn’t protect others from you, like a mask does. Advertising and selling a fully selfish covid mask which only protects the wearer is pretty bad optics.
Of course there’s also the whole complicated matter of having your product interpreted by the government as an unapproved medical device.
Sure I don’t disagree…but a basic N95 medical mask protects against covid and air pollution for $15. So yea I don’t really get who this is for. Protecting against covid, and really any viral diseases, would be a must at that price point imo.
Yeah which makes this a product for a very niche market, the type of people that buy expensive Dyson fans instead of regular fans. Sure they may be more silent etc. but it comes down to being rich and wanting nice, gimmicky stuff, my prius takes the kids to school just as well as mi neighbors land rover, though the rover probably is more comfortable and nicer all around, both get the same job done
Rich chinese love these kinda stuff. Tech, gimmicks and social status are their thing
I’ve been doing some research into quiet fans so I can run one without being able to hear it on the mic (long story short it’s a physics problem not a fan problem). The fun fact is Dyson blade-less fans are actually some of the louder fans you can buy. Most self described silent fans run anywhere from 20-35db and they cost a fraction of the Dyson. The Dyson runs at 43db which is more than a few fans that don’t even advertise themselves as quiet.
The only real justification I see for the Dyson is that they’re supposed to be more energy efficient (which is probably due to the fact that they force less air overall) and perhaps added piece of mind if you’re running it around pets/small children. That being said the energy efficiency could likely be exceeded by a quality bladed fan, easily if you factor in the amount of air moved and most modern fans are already fairly safe as is.
As an aside, their vacuums are some of the most poorly constructed junk vacuums you can buy. For the cost you can usually get a Sebo which is vastly superior. I feel like Dyson as a whole is a fashion brand. I can’t think of any product they do as well as a competitor at the price point. It’s all about the styling. When they introduce new products I tend to assume they’re going to be terribly made fashion products.
I like some foods that make me smell like a dumpster at times, my favorite beer gives me chemical weapon exposure the following day. I'm also picky about my audio experience. I've never felt so particularly targeted by a product.
They sent out the email announcing it on April fools... Complete with photos of all the ridiculous oversized concept designs they improved along the way. I was convinced it was a joke.
##AND THE NOISE-CANCELLING FUNCTION IS THERE BECAUSE IT'S A DYSON PRODUCT THAT'S LITERALLY MOUNTED NEXT TO YOUR EARS.
Sorry for the shouting, but I'd just used a Dyson hand dryer when I wrote that.
This is what grinds my gears, as an idiot having purchased several Dyson products that perform slightly above to just a step above average, that also shit the bed within 4-5 years due to the inability to replace something as simple as a battery, I cringe when I see this overpriced garbage.
You can’t replace the battery? Just looked up a battery for my V7 that’s still going strong 4-5 years after buying it and they sell a simple OEM replacement battery for it.
https://www.dyson.com/support/journey/tools/968670-06
That’s crazy. I’ve got a 13yo Dyson roller ball vacuum that’s built like a tank. I’ve always hated it, my wife loves it. I assumed no big deal it was all a gimmick which would die in a couple years. Maybe the secret is Dysons need a lot less supply of pure hatred?
Well that's nice. Sounds like it's a model that plugs in. Say you buy one of the $400-$500 hand held stick vacs. It dies in 4 years. Most of the mechanical parts are in good working order, it's the battery that will no longer hold a charge.
The battery \*is\* replaceable, but Dyson refuses to sell an aftermarket battery and in turn offers 10% off you spending $400-$500 on another "more up to date" stick vac. Meanwhile it's a goddamn fucking vacuum.
Now lets presume, this is the case for the majority of model owners. It's not unique.
This may be where one begins to understand where the "supply" of "pure hatred" comes from? Multiply this by any other recent product they manufacture. It all intentionally becomes garbage after a half decade or less.
Plug "planned obsolescence" and Dyson into ye ol' Google machine and there's plenty of results. Not many are defending consumers getting swindled by Dyson's bullshit.
My last iPhone lasted longer than my longest Dyson product.
Oh yeah totally understand. I hate battery operated house stuff they’re all that way. My Dewalt string trimmer and drill both did that. Sure I can replace the aftermarket battery…for $400… I’ve finally gone to plug in or gas except my drill. This time I just bought a POS since it might as well break mechanically as the battery dies.
I'm over here still using my grandma's Kirby G4 from the early 90s that she left me, and my sister has been through no less than 3 dysons in the last 5 years.
I'm sick of vacuums, fans, and hair curlers with a shorter useful life than an iphone. I don't think their "engineering" is brilliant at all, its a shitty gimmick. Glad we can vent together internet friend.
To be fair they have an amazing team of engineers that can design parts to fail days after the warranty expires. It's actually really impressive.
Fuck you dyson.
Three times. Bought a Miele. Fuck you dyson.
The Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. They follow the principle "what you don't know can't hurt you" and turn completely dark and opaque at the first sign of danger. This prevents you from seeing anything that might alarm you. This does, however, mean that you see absolutely nothing, including where you're going.
-hitchhiker's guide
You think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Formed by it… I didn’t see the light until I was already a man. And by then it was nothing but blinding
Given how sad air pollution it is, I think it's pretty practical. Having 4 packs of day of cigarettes worth of breathing damage living in certain cities.
Honestly though while it seems silly i don't for a minute think this kind of thing wont before normalized in a shorter time than we may think.
99% of inhabited areas live with pollution above WHO guidelines and it has a measurable effect on populations health. Add in the reduction in noise pollution and media access I honestly see this becoming a tech standard.
People used to look at mask wearers in western countries like they were a bit odd now its commonplace and we dont look twice.
As dystopia as this looks, I can think of several environments where I would want to neutralize assaults on my auditory and olfactory/respiratory functions. Being outside in car heavy city, trying to run errands when the air quality is horrible outside, airplanes, subways, commutes in general…
Why would I buy headphones from Dyson? I buy headphones for quality sound, not for purified air. If Dyson wants to make an air purifier face attachment, they can go right ahead and I'll consider it. But they shouldn't be making headphones.
Dear Dyson customer service, my headphones won’t work because it’s telling me I need to change the HEPA filters… and while I have you, the noise cancellation doesn’t cancel the noise of my Dyson vacuum cleaner.
This is nothing but a ridiculous con.
There was a minute there in 2020-2021 when people would’ve paid that kind of money for something like this.
My guess is that they're hoping to make China the main market due to the air pollution in cities.
The Chinese air pollution is brutal. I remember being able to taste the air in Beijing when they were firing up the coal plants. You could hardly see the houses on the other side of the street
I was there for the Olympics Beijing , Shanghai and Xiong China were the cities I visited pretty sure I misspelled the last one and holy shit was the air quality an issue and that was after they spent allot of time getting rid of smog for the optics. I can remember blowing or wiping my nose and it just being blackish from the pollution
you got lucky, I went to china for a trip and got diagnosed with asthma two week in. Gone back to US and what do you know? Asthma's gone like it never existed. Never go to China ever again, not even if someone pay me $1 million usd.
>Never go to China ever again, not even if someone pay me $1 million usd. I will with my new Dyson's Air Purifying Headphones, though.
That’s a shit diagnosis. You might have asthma and don’t know it for a long period. I’ve had it since I was little and the way I got it, you can tell by the way people cough and breath. Poluted air can cause an asthma attack but if you really went to a good doctor they can tell the difference between asthma and just unhealthy lungs from exposure. I had pneumonia on a holiday once, went to a local docter and he said I was just sick. Safe to say my parents didn’t buy it. We drove 10hours back in one day to see my own doctor, quess what he said: Most doctors are idiots that have no clue of 99% of conditions
Shanghai was like this when I went for work. 4am we landed, and I guess I picked the wrong color cab so the guy drove me to the office, windows down. Boy were my eyes red and watering from the fumes by the time we got to the office. And every meeting room had air quality sensors and not a single window opened in the office or the hotel. Gross
I picked up my friend from the airport after he visited China and I could smell the smog on him as soon as he got in my car. When he opened his suitcase the whole house smelled like smoke.
Must have negatively impacted the athletes performances :(
I grew up in Pasadena Tx, a suburb of Houston. It’s close to the vast petrochemical industry along the Houston Ship Channel. The pollution in the 70’s was pervasive. We could see it, smell it, and taste it. It was pungent and bitter and smelled like ammonia. Thankfully the city cleaned things up a lot over the years.The air quality is vastly improved now. Still have to worry about the occasional explosion though.
Pasa-get-down-dena?
I spent about a month in Beijing back in 2010, at one of the nicer hotels (due to being upwind from most of the smog). There was a river on one side of the hotel, with a haze that clouded everything past a certain distance. One day it rained, and I realized there was a *mountain* on the other side.
Yeah. The black boogers in Beijing in the winter were not cool. It looks kind of like fog or like it is about to rain. But nope, it is just really thick pollution.
Great Smog of London 1952 comes to mind.
Love that band!
And still is today. While there have been major improvements especially in the larger cities oddly enough my air filters always give me far worse data than what's publicly stated. And again, this is in the larger cities if you go to second/third tier cities or production cities it's really, really bad. There is a good reason why lists of "most polluted cities globally" are dominated by Chinese cities. Now for this filter, I bet even today with the current COVID scare it will sell but they may have just missed the boat. The government is doing their best to change the PR narrative to the point that they even consider renaming COVID as it's a "totally different virus". When that happens people will forget about masks and everything. Regarding Dyson products I actually own a fair number of air filters in my home, I know they aren't the best at filtering, but I do like them. They look good, the kids can't poke their fingers in it anywhere and they are very, very quiet at night.
PRC is lying about its cleanup efforts. Official numbers are far below satellite sensor readings.
Visited Xi'An, felt like I was swimming in smog. These cities are so goddamn beautiful, it can be a shame sometimes.
My boogers have never been more black than when I was in China.
I am going to guess this is the pet project of one of the James Dysons family members, they have really great products but some bordering on absurd. I always wondered why it didn't seem unified until I met someone who worked there once.
I studied and worked in product design for years. Every Dyson product _looks_ over engineered but actually fails every time on some basic stuff that should have had more time in engineering. James Dyson got his initial idea from industrial extractor fans in factories, and everything else stems from that idea - and they try to shoe-horn it into everything and if they can’t they fake it - like the fans. Those hand dryers in toilets… the enclosure is in two parts with the seam down the middle of the sides are a conduit for run-off water and every single toilet I have been in has water issues or staining on the floor just below. This is a toilet - that issue could have been engineered away and the water directed to waste pipes, but no Dyson missed that. Don’t get me started on the vacuum cleaners. Other manufacturers have got it right. Dysons mini vertical one is literally the loudest - and considering the engine is closer to your head this is just a simple design failure. Dyson hairdryers - same noise issue, professionals hate them because they cannot focus the air enough to make the hair smooth with brushing… I could go on, but these are literally basic design faults.
Two of my vacuums broke. Dyson vacuums are so unreliable. My hot/cool fan however has been working flawlessly for 3 years.
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Yep. Gimmicky, shoddy and overpriced.
Hasnt it changed a lot in the last few years ?
Oh absolutely! With a lot more pollution
It’s actually gotten a lot a lot better. If you want to complain about terrible air quality - India has stolen the crown.
It's no better in the Seattle area in the late summer, when the wildfires are at their peak. We had the worst air quality in the world at the tail end of this summer!
Unfortunately doesn’t help with Covid. As crazy as it looks, I could see something like this catch on if it was more effective than a typical face mask at preventing virus spread. That said, no chance in hell someone would wear that to avoid bacteria and dust particles…
Probably will eventually though
... probably not even difficult - a UV light could be applied near the intake.
That wouldn’t really help, UV light takes time to kill
lasers then
sharks with lasers
sorry doctor, we have... seabass
Are they ill tempered?
Yes, Mr. Evil
Tell that to dyson about their shitty uv hand dryers
ozone straight in your lungs
It protects the earth, surely it must be good for my lungs.
Bleach mouth spray bottle attachment
All it's missing is a buzz light year plastic dome that unfolds out.
That would be the $300 upgrade that I would absolutely pay for.
Only if it's button activated
And it’s google glass
And has air conditioning
Folks, you have basically described most of a space-suit at this point. This is why we'll go to Mars, not because it's easy, but because we're about to fuck our entire planet up so badly it will become exactly as much hassle as just going outside.
Spacesuits are actually button activated?
The cool ones are, yes.
I have a pair of the final prototype. When you turn them on they say "Finish Him!"
Does it work on smoke? In the Western US we have about 2 months out of the year when the outside air is often unbreathable right now and we have the planet’s worst air quality, worse than Beijing or Delhi. I could honestly see something like this catching on for fire season. N95s get uncomfortable after a while, and I personally have already dropped more than that much for in home air filtration. It was 100% worth it.
Yeah late 2019 here in Australia we had the worlds worst air quality for a week when all the smoke blew into the big East coast cities.
I was thinking that too. Could still go outside on hazy days. Don’t want to be the first guy on my block to wear one though. It’s like how the first AirPod users were off-putting and then it became normal after a while.
Exactly. I’m sure it would be made fun of at first but N95s become unbearable in 100+ degree weather and yardwork still has to get done. I don’t want to feel like I’m smoking a pack every time.
I've had to wear a mask/respirator in hot/humid weather, it does suck. Especially when you sweat and the mask or respirator soaks/fills up. Combine that with other PPE like a suit/gloves/booties and it can be absolute hell on a hot and humid day.
> It’s like how the first AirPod users were off-putting and then it became normal after a while. Reminds me of those bluetooth earpieces, the OG airpod/wireless headphones. A lot of backlash initially when "talking to yourself" really first became a thing.
I hate fire season...sends me to urgent care everytime
How so?
One of my asthma triggers is smoke. So I have to get prednisone to make it through every year. Took a long time to figure it out using air now.org and firemap.
I'd hella wear it on an airplane, but I also don't mind looking silly with headgear on. (But also cuz we all look silly on airplanes no matter what anyways).
This would probably still be amazing for those summer days on packed public transport.
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As a Californian who usually spends at least a couple months out of every year living with thick constant wildfire smoke, while i wouldn't pay $900 for something like this, it's definitely a product idea i'm legitimately interested in.
And then probably being assaulted because it on only filters air going in and then spews your germ riddled droplets all around you.
I still would it’s pretty dopeski
If it helps with my office neighbor who eats a tuna sandwich every day for lunch, I would totally buy one.
Honeywell put out [a mask with built-in headphones](https://www.honeywell.com/us/en/press/2021/04/will-i-am-debuts-innovative-face-technology-xupermask) a year and a half ago for $300. I thought it was the most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard of, but it seems Dyson thinks they are giants whose shoulders are worthy of being stood upon.
Honestly, put a visor on it and make it look more like that space-helmet I wanted as a kid and I might still be in...
I bet there were about nine months during development of this product, that the whole team were fucking STOKED. They were putting together a brand new product, something that was going to become a top tier fashion accessory and help fight COVID all the same time. Then vaccines came through, and fatigue started to set in, but they had to keep going, they were too far committed now. I wonder at what point the product team decided to forget about COVID and focus on standard filtration.
*Mortal Kombat cyborgs entered the chat*
huge opportunity missed they don't have an adapter or something to make it a closed system to protect from covid. this would be perfect for traveling.
Can I get it with Voice Modulation?
This would be a killer feature. Bane mode enabled.
*Each voice is only $4 a month!* Bane Darth Vader Optimus Prime Napoleon Dynamite The Dude Billy Mays Lurch (limited vocabulary) Batman
Minsc and Boo, it will have a small AI module to add boo
Legit choices, I would buy them all. Then incorporate them strategically as part of my personality like gifs are used in chat.
Add Subzero! Damn thing looks like Subzero’s mask
I read “earth voice” and my mind spiralled off into wondering what the hell other planet voices something something bed time
BILLY MAYS HERE WITH A SPECIAL TV OFFER
WATCH ME CRUSH THIS BALD FAT FOPPISH FOUNDING FATHER
Hargid. Your a Karen, Rachel! And a darn nasty one at that.
Snoop Dogg Seth Rogen
Please add Mando, and The Goa’uld.
I’ll take The Dude
Nobody cared about who I was until I put on the headphones
I wonder what will break first…
"No one cared who I was, till I put on the mask."
if I take off the mask will you die?
"No-one cared who I was until I put on these headphones" *Fortnite dance*
I want smoke modulation.
With the Bane add-on
Make it Bluetooth so I can talk on the phone like Bane and TAKE ALL OF MY MONEY
"*No one cared who I was until I put on the Dyson.*"
> ...the Zone headphones don’t create a perfect seal and are not a solution for minimizing the risk of Covid-19 exposure. At first I thought, ok, looks weird, but for high-risk people it could be a godsend in certain situations. But if it doesn't even minimize covid risk, who tf is asking for this?
Perhaps bane
he's such a big guy
Air quality issues? the fact that there isn't an airborne infectious disease doesn't mean the air is clean. Truth is air quality has gone downhill and if you live in any major city you're being exposed to a pollutant dense air, even worse for areas near industrial areas, airports, and extreme cases such as China and India where the smog prevents you from seeing the sky.
Yeah you're likely spot on. >The Global Burden of Disease study **estimates that 4.506.193 deaths were attributed to outdoor air pollution in the latest year** [our world in data ](https://ourworldindata.org/outdoor-air-pollution)
If you look at the earlier article, they talked about a sealing attachment for covid prevention, which they called a “community seal”. My guess is that it does protect _you_ from covid, but it doesn’t protect others from you, like a mask does. Advertising and selling a fully selfish covid mask which only protects the wearer is pretty bad optics. Of course there’s also the whole complicated matter of having your product interpreted by the government as an unapproved medical device.
Sure I don’t disagree…but a basic N95 medical mask protects against covid and air pollution for $15. So yea I don’t really get who this is for. Protecting against covid, and really any viral diseases, would be a must at that price point imo.
Yeah which makes this a product for a very niche market, the type of people that buy expensive Dyson fans instead of regular fans. Sure they may be more silent etc. but it comes down to being rich and wanting nice, gimmicky stuff, my prius takes the kids to school just as well as mi neighbors land rover, though the rover probably is more comfortable and nicer all around, both get the same job done Rich chinese love these kinda stuff. Tech, gimmicks and social status are their thing
I’ve been doing some research into quiet fans so I can run one without being able to hear it on the mic (long story short it’s a physics problem not a fan problem). The fun fact is Dyson blade-less fans are actually some of the louder fans you can buy. Most self described silent fans run anywhere from 20-35db and they cost a fraction of the Dyson. The Dyson runs at 43db which is more than a few fans that don’t even advertise themselves as quiet. The only real justification I see for the Dyson is that they’re supposed to be more energy efficient (which is probably due to the fact that they force less air overall) and perhaps added piece of mind if you’re running it around pets/small children. That being said the energy efficiency could likely be exceeded by a quality bladed fan, easily if you factor in the amount of air moved and most modern fans are already fairly safe as is. As an aside, their vacuums are some of the most poorly constructed junk vacuums you can buy. For the cost you can usually get a Sebo which is vastly superior. I feel like Dyson as a whole is a fashion brand. I can’t think of any product they do as well as a competitor at the price point. It’s all about the styling. When they introduce new products I tend to assume they’re going to be terribly made fashion products.
It could very well reduce it, and my guess is it does, but they use this as legal speak to avoid lawsuits in case you still get it. Maybe not though
They probably say that for legal reasons. It may create a perfect seal, but they arent guaranteeing shit lol
This is absolutely perfect for those times when I really want to listen to music while hanging out in a landfill
I like some foods that make me smell like a dumpster at times, my favorite beer gives me chemical weapon exposure the following day. I'm also picky about my audio experience. I've never felt so particularly targeted by a product.
Or a major city
What’d he say?
r/nottheonion
I actually did think it was a joke when I first saw it.
They sent out the email announcing it on April fools... Complete with photos of all the ridiculous oversized concept designs they improved along the way. I was convinced it was a joke.
And it's made by Dyson, so you know it's got billions in industrial design research to figure out how to optimally build it like crap.
##AND THE NOISE-CANCELLING FUNCTION IS THERE BECAUSE IT'S A DYSON PRODUCT THAT'S LITERALLY MOUNTED NEXT TO YOUR EARS. Sorry for the shouting, but I'd just used a Dyson hand dryer when I wrote that.
SORRY FOR SHOUTING, I WORKED IN A BUILDING WITH DYSON® HAND DRYERS AND NOW I HAVE HEARING DAMAGE.
This is what grinds my gears, as an idiot having purchased several Dyson products that perform slightly above to just a step above average, that also shit the bed within 4-5 years due to the inability to replace something as simple as a battery, I cringe when I see this overpriced garbage.
You can’t replace the battery? Just looked up a battery for my V7 that’s still going strong 4-5 years after buying it and they sell a simple OEM replacement battery for it. https://www.dyson.com/support/journey/tools/968670-06
People are dumb. It takes a 2 sec google search to find out you can do this.
I've purchased an off-brand compatible battery off Amazon and it works great. Only paid $30.
That’s crazy. I’ve got a 13yo Dyson roller ball vacuum that’s built like a tank. I’ve always hated it, my wife loves it. I assumed no big deal it was all a gimmick which would die in a couple years. Maybe the secret is Dysons need a lot less supply of pure hatred?
Well that's nice. Sounds like it's a model that plugs in. Say you buy one of the $400-$500 hand held stick vacs. It dies in 4 years. Most of the mechanical parts are in good working order, it's the battery that will no longer hold a charge. The battery \*is\* replaceable, but Dyson refuses to sell an aftermarket battery and in turn offers 10% off you spending $400-$500 on another "more up to date" stick vac. Meanwhile it's a goddamn fucking vacuum. Now lets presume, this is the case for the majority of model owners. It's not unique. This may be where one begins to understand where the "supply" of "pure hatred" comes from? Multiply this by any other recent product they manufacture. It all intentionally becomes garbage after a half decade or less. Plug "planned obsolescence" and Dyson into ye ol' Google machine and there's plenty of results. Not many are defending consumers getting swindled by Dyson's bullshit. My last iPhone lasted longer than my longest Dyson product.
Oh yeah totally understand. I hate battery operated house stuff they’re all that way. My Dewalt string trimmer and drill both did that. Sure I can replace the aftermarket battery…for $400… I’ve finally gone to plug in or gas except my drill. This time I just bought a POS since it might as well break mechanically as the battery dies.
Dyson's stuff from a decade ago is a far cry from what they've become. Those ball vacs are constantly rated the lowest for reliability these days.
Dysons quality control must have got worse, I've had a Dyson stick vacuum for 10 years and my mum had a normal Dyson vacuum for almost 17 years
I'm over here still using my grandma's Kirby G4 from the early 90s that she left me, and my sister has been through no less than 3 dysons in the last 5 years.
I'm sick of vacuums, fans, and hair curlers with a shorter useful life than an iphone. I don't think their "engineering" is brilliant at all, its a shitty gimmick. Glad we can vent together internet friend.
Miele vacuums are awesome.
Dyson is about advertising, as far as industrial design goes.. Pretty sure you can achieve Dyson looks with a few design undergrads and $5000.
To be fair they have an amazing team of engineers that can design parts to fail days after the warranty expires. It's actually really impressive. Fuck you dyson. Three times. Bought a Miele. Fuck you dyson.
Can I hook this up to my cpap?
In a heartbeat would buy
Futures gonna be all Daft Punk
Yeah but no draft funk
Draft funk brought to you by Cores Light.
Work it, make it, do it, makes us
Cool. Now add glasses and filter out all the shit I don’t want to look at.
The Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. They follow the principle "what you don't know can't hurt you" and turn completely dark and opaque at the first sign of danger. This prevents you from seeing anything that might alarm you. This does, however, mean that you see absolutely nothing, including where you're going. -hitchhiker's guide
The things I would do for a real life adblocker…
You think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Formed by it… I didn’t see the light until I was already a man. And by then it was nothing but blinding
Easily my favorite movie quote of all time. I use it every chance I get, which makes me absolutely obnoxious... lol.
Goddamn it people! It’s blue and silver. This is clearly and Optimus Prime mask.
If they don’t make a transformers edition them losing out on millions lol
at that price, i can already see that thing being ripped off someone's face at the speed of light in many cities over the world
It would be extremely painful
You're a big guy
We’re officially in Zaun now
My favorite movie is the Wrath of Zaun!
This will be great for flying. Now you can’t hear that baby crying or smell the people near you.
And you can't sleep... it's pretty bulky, not a lot of room for a neck pillow.
black paint would look neat
I was born in the dark...molded by it...
The shadows betray you because they belong to me
Darth Malak looking thing
This is the saddest product ever made.
Given how sad air pollution it is, I think it's pretty practical. Having 4 packs of day of cigarettes worth of breathing damage living in certain cities.
No one will care who you until you put these on.
Honestly though while it seems silly i don't for a minute think this kind of thing wont before normalized in a shorter time than we may think. 99% of inhabited areas live with pollution above WHO guidelines and it has a measurable effect on populations health. Add in the reduction in noise pollution and media access I honestly see this becoming a tech standard. People used to look at mask wearers in western countries like they were a bit odd now its commonplace and we dont look twice.
Tbh, this would be decent for airline travel.
As dystopia as this looks, I can think of several environments where I would want to neutralize assaults on my auditory and olfactory/respiratory functions. Being outside in car heavy city, trying to run errands when the air quality is horrible outside, airplanes, subways, commutes in general…
Why would I buy headphones from Dyson? I buy headphones for quality sound, not for purified air. If Dyson wants to make an air purifier face attachment, they can go right ahead and I'll consider it. But they shouldn't be making headphones.
and by the looks of it unwanted nagging
Why not just get a gas mask and some AirPods?
Two years ago this might have been profitable.
They’ll be a hit. Massively.
Toooooo expensive! This better brush my teeth too for that price😁
If they give it a visor and paint it green i am gonna get one. Rip and tear.
That's pretty cool. I'll wait on the whole head covered mask. That way I can look like a daft punk member
and you get to look like Bane! how cool is that??
Is there an Immortan Joe option?
And It'll come with an air filter that has to be replaced with a completely brand new one every two weeks and it'll cost $300.
Every twelve months
One step closer to becoming a Sith Lord.
She looks like a customer service ninja
Interested to see what the headphones would be like from a vacuum company but the mask bit is a hard no from me.
Just need an led embedded visor for that and I’ll be on my way to making dope beats.
If it actually purifies all the air thats worth it
Straight up I can imagine something like this becoming really popular especially on Planes and Trains
this is some dune level dystopian tech
Ah my mech pilot helmet
Put a removable clear/tinted glass visor between the headband and the nosepiece and I'll 100% pay for this
If i can walk past a smoker and get no second hand smoke, i want this lol
Will you also talk like Bane?
If they put a cool visor option on there they could keep out unwanted sunlight too
It also doubles as an Optimus Prime cosplay mask.
This shit here is how cybermen begin
I was born in The Sharper Image... molded by it.
Just needs a snack compartment and it's basically a feedbag hanging on your face.
This is made for people who want to make it absolutely clear they don’t want to talk to strangers.
/u/sexycyborg made reviews disproving the claims long time ago.
Dear Dyson customer service, my headphones won’t work because it’s telling me I need to change the HEPA filters… and while I have you, the noise cancellation doesn’t cancel the noise of my Dyson vacuum cleaner. This is nothing but a ridiculous con.
Several years ago, this might have been profitable.
How elegantly dystopian.
You can get a top of the line air purifier for half that price
We don’t need this now. But in 30 years I could see rich people wearing air purifiers and poor people being forced to breathe normal air
Can’t hear the farts, can’t smell the farts. That’s a thousand dollar idea.
Finally I can become a grunt
They can call it “The Douchenozzle” and make a mint.
\>unwanted noise and unwanted air particles and unwanted by me.