The Fit is No-Go!

Voting is based on anecdotal opinions - mostly a popularity contest. I'm considering buying one of the Dysons, but I would like to see scientific tests verifying that their marketing hype is worth the price. I really should get a consumer reports membership...

Voting is based on anecdotal opinions - mostly a popularity contest. I'm considering buying one of the Dysons, but I…

Agreed. I'm an industrial designer who would naturally gravitate toward the Dysons, but I would like to see scientific tests verifying that their marketing hype is worth the price. I really should get a consumer reports membership...

Agreed. I'm an industrial designer who would naturally gravitate toward the Dysons, but I would like to see…

Blue foam for exploratory "speed forms" and then the high density stuff for final detailed models. Alias is probably a bit old-school, but it was primarily aimed at automotive designers and companies due to its high cost. Maya is Alias's movie FX cousin. Check out Daniel Simon's work in Alias.

If it had reliable wifi and big reclining seats, then yeah, it wouldn't be so bad.

Very true, but many times in a large internal company/org., its the programmers who become project managers or dept heads and think its the user that should adapt to their UI and workflows.

Yeah, I'm kinda one of those people, but you have to understand that very large companies/organizations don't have outside competition for internally created apps, so they often don't see the value in good design - even if it would improve employee morale and efficiency over the long term...

Agreed. I tend to think of "product design" as dealing with more physical consumer objects. God, I do sometimes miss those late nights in studio carving blue foam or mocking up forms in Alias...

As an industrial designer turned multimedia designer I can't stress how frustrating it is when applications are built by programmers who fail to see the value of good UI and visual design, which can lead to long learning curves and a cumulative waste of man-hours due to cumbersome workflows.

Only on ipads...

Psst - Hail Hydra...

With ultra low fuel prices and fatter airline profit margins, it's unfortunate that they couldn't pass the savings on to passengers or give em more space. Then again, they learned very well that people still need to travel and will put up with squished seats, despite a few air rage incidents...

Reminds me of MIT's old Robo-tuna

Like a lot of commenters, I don't have backup cameras or blind spot detection - (hell I don't even have/like automatic transmission), but I do have those large convex rearview mirrors, whose only "blind spots" are where your head or extra thick C-pillar are. At that point you can easily adjust your side mirrors to…

Yes, I've had to scrap frozen fog off the inside of my windows until I hung one of these on the back of the headrest.

I have an older car with some leaks and live in rainy Portland. I've been using those DampRid hangers on the back of my headrest to keep morning fog out of my car for years now.

I bought 2 of those non-contact thermometers and at that no-brainer price its pretty awesome. It's just reading surface temp, so don't zap your forehead and expect to see if you're running a fever, but the laser beam does work for getting cats to chase it...

It's rather unfortunate that this vanity sizing (flattery) scheme apparently works and now we can't have known standard measurements for which to accurately buy clothes online. I guess just like average pants sizes, car seats and cars have grown to a new sizes, while keeping their old definitions. The average…

lego my destroyer

Oh I get what you're saying and from an action-entertainment standpoint, I really liked the Abrams Trek movies and came out of the theater feeling rather good. It's when I really thought about em and all the plot holes and larger ramifications did I get frustrated. Though his casting of the original crew was quite…