Frustration and failure fuel Dyson's success

Here's a mirror for anyone in the UK:

http://www.bbc.com.nyud.net/future/story/20130312-failure-is...

It is interesting to see how much his description of invention also resemble game design.

People rarely understand why the really good games frequently miss deadlines, take lots of work and rarely end as the original vision planned, it is because bleeding edge game design is also a research effort, prototypes and tests, specially because we don't have yet sufficient psychology theoretical information to always predict player behavior, most of the best game design inventions were more a discovery than a real invention.

Like asteroids wrap around, street fighter II combos made with animation bugs, sim city disaster tool because players after a while on the prototype started to happily bulldoze the city to watch the chaos, and so on...

Ok, I gotta say it. The Airblade hand dryer is a knock off and it's been all over Japan by other brands many years before. I've seen Toto and Panasonic versions. Good for him he made it into a product but it is NOT an invention of his. I've used his and the originals and his does not improve on anything either.

So I'm in the UK. I pay their licence fee and yet I get this: "We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee."

I'd love to find the article on the normal BBC site but no luck.

As a mechanical engineer I 100% agree with his POV.