Monday, June 30, 2008

Dyson Handheld Vacuums: C+

Okay, it is still better than any other handheld vacuum. But:

1. Gryroscopic force twists your hand clockwise slowly, and the lightweight nozzle turns too; then, one corrects for this, and the lightweight nozzle does not twist back with a turn of the wrist: the sensation is like trying to pick up an olive with a toothpick attached to an andiron.

2. The trigger pinches the trigger finger. Until one learns to adjust, and hold the trigger in a funny way, one has a sharp red line and discomfort each and every time one uses the thing.

3. The Dyson Handheld can run with the latch open: watch out, dust and debris gets accelerated all over the room.

4. Originally the Dyson Car Vac, now, it is not. Where's the lighter-plug gone to? Did it short out someone's Mercedes?

Mr. Dyson, did you actually design this thing? What does "design" mean? Or, as I suspect, did you make the innards and farm out the handheld to others to "design"?

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