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[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 81 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure Dyson killed these themselves the moment they turned these from concept to product.

[–] dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That and Dyson might just be preemptively killing it in the wake of the FTC forcing Razer to refund buyers of its smart mask

[–] residentmarchant@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Almost 7 thousand people bought one?! That's crazy, it was a meme product!

[–] procrastitron@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

It wasn’t being marketed and sold as a meme product. It was being marketed and sold as critical safety equipment.

On top of that, it was being sold during a pandemic when such equipment was being used continuously by large segments of the population.

It shouldn’t be surprising that large numbers of people bought it; the company selling it lied to those people to trick them into buying it.