Well I graduated last December with a degree in Electrical Engineering and I cant find a job to save my life, so we may need more engineers and scientists, but we need more jobs for those people first.
for my part, I'd love to see some Dyson explorations with liquids. Fluids is a remarkable subset of physics, and I'd like to see more work with liquids in particular. It's very complicated engineering, but very exciting. I'm curious about what he sees in materials science of today that can be exploited.
More ideas, please.
FWIW, my fave design firm is Ideo. I would change my life to work there.
Dyson's vacuum's really irritate me, but whenever I'm in a bathroom with one of his dryers, I always end up washing my hands twice just so I can use it again.
@92BuickLeSabre: That's no lie. I had my first run in with the Air Blade (or whatever the hell he calls it) a few weeks ago. I had a bunch of people backed up behind me at the hand dryer because of the best hand drying experience I've ever had. It was neat watching the skin on the back of my hands ripple like the face of an astronaut trainee.
So this guy is brilliant and Dyson has some amazing ideas and designs to apply...And they make high-end vacuums and fans.
I really wish they'd apply themselves to some more 'important' things if you get my meaning. They have some brilliant electric motors I've heard and I know he wants to put one in a car, but here we are, years later with a blade-less fan. Come on Dyson, do something worth doing.
Why can't someone just make this functionality as a desktop widget. The facebook app already has a widget and there are widgets out there to show your SMS messages on your desktop as well.
@Captain Angry: agreed. It's not making sense to me considering between widgets and apps, you can already customize your android phone to such a high degree. Better Cut alone allows so much flexibility...you can make almost ANY desktop short cut you damn well please.
Don't get me wrong, I'm digging the Motorola android entry, it's a good looking piece of hardware but some of the bells and whistles that are being talked about can be accomplished on current phones.
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Interesting insights. Most notably, though, it's actually a pretty sober-minded analysis. As much as I liked Android when it first came out, we all knew it didn't really become a decent contender until Cupcake. And even now, it's still got some issues.
For high-up like him to admit that the original launch was less than perfectly ready is respectable.
I'm curious, though, to see how this trend toward integrating Facebook and Twitter and such goes in the next few years. I mean, what ever happened to MySpace, huh? How long will Facebook stay relevant then? And what happens to code in the Android core OS when folks shift away to Zobadoo or Bleeklow or whatever the heck crazy service they come out with next?
@OCEntertainment: Intergation of Social ntwrks seems like a great idea if it's say twitter. But why bother with facebook when facebook as of late has openly said they want to be the (don't quote me) anti-google.
So, basically Motorola is saying "We're not dead yet!" like that guy, in the village, in that Monty Python movie about a grail and some silly kinigits?
Joking aside, it's good to see them produce something that looks relevant, useful, and comes with a nice camera to boot.
I think that once it comes down to bots vs bots, it's going to be a matter of drones being used for massive terrorist attacks on civilians (if you can't find any soldiers,) or assassinations of the leaders who called the wars.
Only the richest and most foolhardy nations would waste their resources pitting machines against machines in a war of attrition.
It's not all about keeping our soldiers away from danger -- it's also cost cutting. Even though these things cost tons of money, they're still cheaper than all the support staff and suplies needed to keep real people in the battle.
It is nice to know that, much like everything else, war is continuing to evolve as we find new ways to kill each other. I find it hard to believe that we will ever get to the point where we are only killing 'things' and not people, but that would at least be a major step forward if it were to occur. If anything, the current state of world affairs shows that we are returning to move civilian deaths and not less. No matter how much technology we use to remove our forces from the battlefield, it is a given that the "enemy" (whomever they are) will find a way of engaging "us".
One enlightened thought might be to no longer think of humans as "us" and "them" and instead of harming each other we actually talk through our differences. But, then this fantastic war technology would go to waste, so we couldn't do that.
i think we just need to find a way to lay siege to whole countries. to do that we will need gianormous robot armies. yes, gianormous robot armies. /steeples fingers
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He's like Gandhi...for hoovers!!
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But seriously, it is tough to find a job.
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More ideas, please.
FWIW, my fave design firm is Ideo. I would change my life to work there.
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I really wish they'd apply themselves to some more 'important' things if you get my meaning. They have some brilliant electric motors I've heard and I know he wants to put one in a car, but here we are, years later with a blade-less fan. Come on Dyson, do something worth doing.
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Of course now when I go I'm just sick of explaining to everyone else how they work so they'll get out of the way. #jamesdysoninterview
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Don't get me wrong, I'm digging the Motorola android entry, it's a good looking piece of hardware but some of the bells and whistles that are being talked about can be accomplished on current phones.
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For high-up like him to admit that the original launch was less than perfectly ready is respectable.
I'm curious, though, to see how this trend toward integrating Facebook and Twitter and such goes in the next few years. I mean, what ever happened to MySpace, huh? How long will Facebook stay relevant then? And what happens to code in the Android core OS when folks shift away to Zobadoo or Bleeklow or whatever the heck crazy service they come out with next?
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I do know that a while back, Facebook avowed that Android was irrelevant and they'd never make an official Android app. You see how well that went.
Facebook never really knows what they want. See also: three site overhauls in the last 2 years.
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Joking aside, it's good to see them produce something that looks relevant, useful, and comes with a nice camera to boot.
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Only the richest and most foolhardy nations would waste their resources pitting machines against machines in a war of attrition.
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One enlightened thought might be to no longer think of humans as "us" and "them" and instead of harming each other we actually talk through our differences. But, then this fantastic war technology would go to waste, so we couldn't do that.
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