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Dyson

British consumer technology company known for cyclone vacuums, hair dryers, and air purifiers, now expanding into premium oral care devices.

Known aliases

  • Dyson Ltd

Current stories

productConfirmed12 publishers

Dyson bets $499.99 on a toothbrush that aims its own floss jet

Dyson spent six years on a toothbrush whose camera finds the gaps between your teeth and squirts them, and the first outside reaction asks the question every premium sensor upgrade has to answer: who this is for.

Perspective Coverage

12 publishers
Builder
Builder 36%
Operator
Operator 49%
Investor
Investor 15%

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives60
Confidence62
productOne report1 publisher

Dyson's $499 CameraJet disappeared from sale in four countries within a week of launch

The camera toothbrush went on sale in US stores on September 8 and was gone from shops in France, the US, UK and Singapore by September 15. Dyson blames one unnamed component in early batches.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+40
Incentives60
Confidence50
productOne report1 publisher

Beats gives each 360 earcup its own battery and antenna to earn an IPX4 rating

Beats built each earcup of the 360 as a self-contained unit with its own battery and antenna. ZDNET's reviewer says that construction is what makes the pair sweat-resistant, and it costs buyers both the 3.5mm jack and USB-C audio.

Publishers:zdnet.com

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+22
Incentives45
Confidence55
productOne report1 publisher

Dyson prices the mop at $150 above its cheapest new robot vacuum

Dyson's three new robot vacuums are $550, $700 and $1,200, which makes wet cleaning a $150 step inside its own line at a moment when Gizmodo says rival flagships are pushing toward $2,000.

Publishers:gizmodo.com

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption20
Hype gap+25
Incentives60
Confidence52
productOne report1 publisher

Dyson switches its whole new robot vacuum line from camera to lidar navigation

All three of Dyson's new Nurovi robots scan with lidar and sell at $550, $700 and $1,200, with the middle model available only to Costco members. Wired says it has not tested any of the three yet.

Publishers:wired.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption20
Hype gap+30
Incentives50
Confidence45
leadershipConfirmed4 publishers

Dyson's $500 CameraJet trades the floss for a camera and a change of toothpaste

Dyson's record says the difference between a category-maker and a write-off is whether the annoyance being solved was real. The CameraJet puts that judgement on public test. The engineering was never the hard part.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 35%
Operator
Operator 28%
Investor
Investor 37%

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption24
Hype gap+32
Incentives70
Confidence63
productOne report1 publisher

Dyson spends 470,000 dental images to aim a jet of mouthwash

The CameraJet's endoscope reads 28 frames a second and fires rinse into the gaps it finds. The headline 69 percent plaque number comes from Dyson's own lab, in one brushing mode, on plaque Dyson helped invent.

Publishers:wired.com

Reality

Evidence32
Adoption8
Hype gap+42
Incentives80
Confidence54
productOne report1 publisher

Dyson hands the flossing decision to a camera inside the toothbrush

The CameraJet spots a gap between two teeth and fires rinse into it inside 100 milliseconds, which leaves the only proof that the machine learning worked sitting inside a phone app the toothbrush does not need.

Publishers:wired.com

Reality

Evidence24
Adoption9
Hype gap+58
Incentives78
Confidence56