[BITList] Inventor James Dyson launches heater that cannot burn you| Technology | The Guardian

[HUGH]

Mike,

I don't rate Dyson as anything more than a gimmick producer.  His "cyclone" 
principle, or one like it, was used in the mills here to take dust from the 
atmosphere within. The units were a feature of the roofs. My job after 
leaving the comfort of a year as a gateboy in Lithgows East Yard, and before 
starting my time in Kincaids, was as a sort of boy labourer in the sheet 
metal works that made the units. Mainly I tried hard not to get my fingers 
cut off in the guillotine. In the article I read about "must-have" object, 
and "cooly curved design". That's about it, and don't get me started in the 
"22 engineers and designers" who took 3 years to develop a new kind of 
heater that does pretty much what the old kind does, only dearer and cooly 
curved.

Hugh.