James Dyson claims his 1kg DC31 handheld vacuum has the world’s fastest motor “by a long stretch.” Thanks to a new switched reluctance motor, it’s capable of achieving 104,000 revolutions per minute.
To put that into perspective, the Dyson motor is “ten times as fast as a commercial aircraft, five times as fast as a Formula 1 engine and more than twice as fast as the most powerful industrial milling machines.”
Yeah, careful—you could probably suck the family dog into this thing from across the room. Because this technology is scalable, it’s looking more and more likely that Dyson could build that super electric engine he has been talking about lately. The DC31 will retail in two versions, the standard DC31 and the DC31 “Animal” for around $US220 and $US270 respectively starting next month in the UK. [Dyson and Telegraph via CrunchGear]
RDKO
Friday, June 26, 2009 at 1:05 PMDyson products always sucked! Thank you! I am here every Tuesday.
Jack
Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 10:15 AMI was at the London press launch for the new hand-helds on Thursday…
All in attendance were given a brand new DC31 as a gift, and I can confirm it’s a huge improvement over the original DC16. The DDM is really something special!