Our Major-Domo, Dan Neil
Times staff writer Dan Neil reviews home design and technology.
January 9, 2010
MAJOR-DOMO
Dyson Air Multiplier meets fandom
With his company's various cyclonic gizmos -- track-ball vacuum cleaners and wall-mounted hand dryers and the like -- industrial designer and inventor James Dyson has emerged as the people's aerodynamicist, a tamer of vortexes and laminar flow, the Edison of air.
March 28, 2009
MAJOR-DOMO
Jonathan Beauty Water shower filter pampers hair, skin -- and saves water too
My hair is lustrous, full bodied, glossy. My skin is smoother and my eyes clearer. I'm thinking of registering myself with the AKC.
October 11, 2008
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Fingerprint-scan deadbolt can eliminate need for keys
YOU KNOW, people don't take enough time to sit outside alone and just think. Listen to the birds. Feel the wind on their faces. Wonder when their spouses are coming home to unlock the door.
November 29, 2008
MAJOR-DOMO
Compost in your kitchen
Composting is the bright green line that separates well-intended but lazy liberals (and their soy-based clothing and macrobiotic cars) from true greeniks. There's no disputing that composting -- the process of banking organic matter such as food waste and yard clippings until it disintegrates into a nutrient-rich soil enhancer -- makes great sense.
August 23, 2008
MAJOR-DOMO
Porsche's Kitchen for Men
You're an evil genius, bent on world domination. You have a nuclear weapon simmering away in the basement of your underground lair, deep within some Polynesian volcanic island. You still have to eat.
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