Sir James Dyson, you just might be our favourite billionaire!

SOMEBODY refers to the English inventor of the Dual Cyclone bag-less vacuum cleaner.

His philosophies on inventing are really quite profound...

"You start with a problem that you're having to solve. And you start building prototypes. Hundreds of them. Perhaps even thousands of them. And very often the original idea or the original problem doesn't look anything like the final solution. So the important thing is this journey...from prototype to prototype. And during that process you get hundreds or thousands of failures. And the failure is the starting point...because when something fails you understand why it fails...and then you start to think of ideas and ways to overcome that failure."

Indeed, it took Dyson 5,127 failed prototypes over 5 years to perfect his top-selling masterpiece.

And thank God he took his sweet-arse time!

The FABNOB Family recently acquired a Dyson vacuum cleaner. It's efficiency picking up dust and feline fur defies belief.

Even emptying the cleaner is a joyous experience ("I can't believe ALL THAT came from there!"). Yes, Dyson has changed our collective hatred of vacuuming forever.

Moving beyond the vacuum Dyson recently released a hand-dryer called the Dyson Airblade.

You may have seen these revolutionary things starting to pop up in universities, airports, and sporting stadiums.

The Dyson Airblade uses sheets of purified air travelling at 640km/h to literally scrape water from your hands like a windscreen wiper. They're efficient too, using up to 80 per cent less energy than a warm air hand dryer.

But wait, there's more...

Dyson has now released the world's first bladeless fan.

The Dyson Air Multiplier has no visible moving parts and has a smoothness of airflow never seen from a fan before. It's awesome!

And what about comments that Dyson's products are aesthetically displeasing? Dyson has a phenomenal retort...

"A product is only truly beautiful if it works well. It's the performance of the product that counts."

Keep it up Sir James Dyson. You rock!