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The company counters performance claims made by Dyson's new blade-less fan--and makes some of it's own. But they're missing the point of Dyson's M.O.

Sir James Dyson has made a mint selling the story of his dogged pursuit of the vacuum cleaner that "never loses suction." But Dyson's newest product doesn't suck. It blows.

That's right, Dyson's newest invention is a room fan--a bladeless fan--called the Air Multiplier. And it turns out that the Air Mulitiplier might never have been invented at all, if Dyson's engineers didn't notice something strange was happening during testing of another product, the Airblade hand dryer.

Yes, yes, it's a color we automatically associate with girls. But that doesn't mean every product for women has to be imbued with a rosy hue.