545: My Butler Can’t Use It
Accidental Tech Podcast
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Introduction
Clarkson uses Dyson vacuums, but they're not the best built things in the world. One of those ways is the little red trigger that you squeeze. All the pressure to hold that trigger against the battery terminals is this little thin piece of plastic that cracks very easily. The effort to pull the trigger is very, very low because it would get fatiguing if you were holding it and you had to like hold the trigger all the time. They just got rid of the trigger entirely. So who wants to hold the thing down all the time? I think it's like a switch or something on the most recent ones.
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