Gallery: Watch: A Sneak Peek Into Dyson's Crazy Testing Lab
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A new video from Dyson offers a glimpse of the company's testing facility. *Image: Dyson*
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Motion-capture user testing is one of the many weird things you'll find at Dyson's test facility in Manchester. *Image: Dyson*
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Lines of cleaning machines, all being tested by other machines. *Image: Dyson*
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Here: the decidedly moody flow visualization lab. *Image: Dyson*
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A robot arm pushes a prototype. *Image: Dyson*
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Back and forth, back and forth. *Image: Dyson*
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This sealed apparatus tests suction pressure. *Image: Dyson*
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A vacuum on a test track, about to go over an ultra-thin crevice. *Image: Dyson*
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You think this is a game? Check out all those warning signs and pipes and stuff in the background. *Image: Dyson*
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These vacuums think they're in a living room, but in reality they're linked up with a massive suction-testing superstructure (kinda like the Matrix). *Image: Dyson*
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A stairway that goes nowhere, like something you'd find in a painting by Magritte. *Image: Dyson*
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Behind him? That's a fake kitchen. *Image: Dyson*
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A top-down view of a bumpy test track. *Image: Dyson*
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Square upon square of test carpet. *Image: Dyson*
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Dyson's vac preparing for the 30 lb weight to drop. *Image: Dyson*
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