Sir James Dyson presents the “CameraJet” in Paris

Sir James Dyson, the famous British inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, the bladeless fan and the Supersonic hairdryer, is convinced of this. A failure is ultimately more “interesting” than a success. This is perhaps the secret of his success.

“When you do research and engineering, you experiment and most experiments fail. Failure energizes you and pushes you to overcome a problem. It’s a nice rite of passage and you get addicted to it. It’s not a tedious thing or a chore that you have to endure,” says the 79-year-old entrepreneur, still very involved in the eponymous family group that he founded in the 1990s, today managed by Hanno Kirner. With his hat as chief engineer, he is not yet done with inventions.

This lover of France and the European Union, convinced that Brexit was the best solution for the United Kingdom, is launching this Tuesday in Paris, at the Atelier des Lumières, the “CameraJet”, a…