Hi Venson,with a great mind such as yours im sure the Dyson foundation can spare a few million to you ,just to say that your on their team, .  
 
B.T.W. hows the combination television, dinner tray, your working on.I cant wait to see how that goes over,and if it bombs so what it was not your money anyways,at least you tried and at least the vacuum division can bail out the home gadget department.
 
And I just introduced my NEW product to the market,it sucks up liquids of counter tops.I call it a paper towel.And at 9.95 plus shipping the consumers should be buying this product by the container load.I'll be rich i say RICH
 
 O.T.

No Way nobodys going to steal my invention,I have the best of lawyers and 4 pitbulls protecting my product. Dont you have your invention protected also?
 
  O.T.

Not that I go around thinking about hand dryers every day and not that the demo isn't cute -- it's just too cut-and-dried.  Almost a law of Nature, wet hands and, on numerous occasions I'll warrant, not well-rinsed wet hands will be going into this device and splattered water and soap residue will collect because there's no place for it to go. AND there is no practical manner in Dyson can make it self cleaning.
 
A possibly little known fact is that the larger part of the building maintence work force is not in love with their jobs.  They're in it for the money.  Housekeeping is just not all that wonderful or fascinating.  In light of numerous tasks in need of daily attention, I think you'll be hard pressed to find even supervisory personnel prepared to stay on their staff's back about being meticulous in the cleaning of merely a hand dryer and of which there may be several installed throughout a building.  It's one thing to give something a quick wipe-down as opposed to an involved routine to keep it looking good.
 
Regards,
 
Venson

I took the liberty to repost the USA Today link about the dyson airblade which my friend JimB posted earlier.  Why?  If you scroll down, there are 24 readers' comments are included to date and growing.  Thought Forum readers might enjoy the insight of others regarding the latest dyson invents BIG ..................fill in your own word(s).  Im sure some of these 24 would fill in with very interesting descriptions.  
 
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/manufacturing/2007-06-17-dyson-usat_N.htm?csp=34
 
Carmine D.

I took the liberty to excerpt this from the UK dyson article, thank you for the data:
 
"Total number of Dyson vacuum cleaners sold worldwide since 1993 is more than 20 million (2006).  
10 million of these were sold in the last three years.  
Two thirds of sales are now outside of our home market, the UK.  
Overall growth in export sales of 44 per cent (2005)."
 
Since 10 million dyson vacuums (before returns) have sold worldwide in the last 3 years, I opined several times on this Forum (and still) that dyson has not sold ONE million units in the USA in one year.  Considering that OVER 20 MILLION new vacuums are sold each year in the USA and have been for many years, dyson's unit volume share is not even FIVE PERCENT of total yearly new vacuum sales in the USA.  After more than 3 years in the USA.  
 
Any wonder that dyson presents sales in dollar volume while the rest of the vacuum companies present data in unit sales?  The vacuum industry for the last 50 years has always presented data on sales in unit volume, not dyson: Dollar volume.
 
Also of interest to me to note, dyson's 2006 financial results will be released this summer according to the article's author.  Almost 6 months after the close of the calendar year.  Just dyson results.
 
But the NPD can post results for the entire industry in the USA for the 3 months ended April 2007 in June?  Sorry.  You have to show me what the numbers mean and measure before I begin to believe them.   Still no response back from NPD on my question about their numbers.  
 
Carmine D.