Sir James Dyson Introduces The Supersonic Hair Dryer - The World's Smartest Hairdryer

by Gizmodo Australia | Technology

Not that Sir James Dyson, British engineer does things in halves.  From vacuum cleaners to fans, he has outsmarted his rivals to clinch a larger nitch of a very big market.

According to Gizmodo Australia, Dyson and his British company, famous for its vacuum cleaners and Air Multiplier fans, has invested almost $95 million (£65million), enlisted 103 engineers, built 600 prototypes, and has over 100 patents pending, all into the creation of a hairdryer.

On Wednesday last week, April 27, 2016, in Tokyo, Japan, James Dyson announced what he affectionately calls “his baby” — the Supersonic hairdryer - a project he has been working on for four years now.

It’s one of those things that doesn't seem to make sense — and then, suddenly, it does. And it’s not just because vacuum cleaners were once the only option for drying hair.

Using the Air Multiplier technology found in Dyson’s fans, the volume of the air drawn into the Supersonic’s motor is amplified by three, producing a high pressure, high velocity jet of air. This is the basic minimum requirement you’d expect from a Dyson hairdryer. So of course, it goes much, much further.

The Supersonic is engineered for balance in the hand, is quiet and intelligently controls the temperature to help protect hair from extreme heat damage.

Imagine a gadget that is loud, bulky and difficult to manoeuvre. You are pointing it at your head while it blasts your scalp and hair with high temperatures, treading the fine line between shiny locks and extreme heat damage. Oh, and at any moment your hair can be sucked into the filter, breaking and knotting it. 

Don’t you reckon the humble hairdryer deserves a rethink? Sir James Dyson certainly did. And the result is the Dyson Supersonic.

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Hear the piorneer: “Hair dryers can be heavy, inefficient and make a racket,” Sir James said today. “By looking at them further we realised that they can also cause extreme heat damage to hair. I challenged Dyson engineers to really understand the science of hair and develop our version of a hair dryer, which we think solves these problems.”

They did. Read more about this at http://www.gizmodo.com.au.