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Billionaire inventor turns from the bagless vacuum cleaner and high speed hand-dryer to a design unchanged since 1880He pioneered the bagless vacuum cleaner and more recently has transformed the UK's public toilets with his revolutionary hand-dryer.
Today the billionaire businessman and inventor Sir James Dyson unveils his latest product - a desk fan that he hopes will provide a greener alternative to office air conditioning and a safer and more efficient product for use at home.His latest hi-tech gadget looks nothing like a conventional fan, consisting of a "loop" perched on a sturdy cylinder rather than the wobbly model with oscillating blades we have all become used to.
Using the same technology at the heart of the Airblade hand-dryer, it expels 405 litres of cool, smooth air every second.
Unlike top-heavy conventional fans, the Dyson fan has an energy-efficient motor at its base, meaning it has a low centre of gravity and does not topple over.Dyson said that he had long been disappointed by conventional fans, which relied on technology that had hardly changed since 1880.
He explained: "Their spinning blades chop up the airflow, causing annoying buffeting. They're hard to clean.
And children always want to poke their fingers through the grille.
So we've developed a new type of fan that doesn't use blades."The fan is made from a tough thermoplastic which is used to make car bumpers, crash helmets and modern golf club heads because of its shock-absorbing qualities.
Available in two sizes, it will retail for £199, initially from specialist design stores and from Argos next January.Dyson, who was recently appointed by the Conservative party leader, David Cameron, to head a taskforce to look into the future of technology, said he hoped companies would use the fans in offices as a greener alternative to air conditioning.
"This is good function over form," he said.
The new taskforce is likely to include Sir John Rose, the chief executive of Rolls-Royce, and Sir Christopher Gent, the former chief executive of Vodafone.The tycoon, who was knighted in December 2006, revolutionised the domestic appliances market with the bagless vacuum cleaner.
The Dyson Dual Cyclone became the best-selling vacuum cleaner in the UK within 18 months of its launch.The Airblade hand-dryer, launched three years ago, was initially compared to a noisy trouser press.
Now it is common in office, school and NHS toilets, drying hands in as little as 10 seconds and reducing infection by cutting cross-contamination from bacteria.Stung by criticism of relying on overseas manufacturing facilities in Malaysia and China, Dyson said the new products would be assembled in the UK and exported from the UK.
"We are a British company but we weren't allowed to expand in the UK," he said.
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