Things in Dubai get dirty pretty fast with the sand from the desert. But how the heck do you clean the 818-metre Burj Dubai? What about a SWAT team rappelling down its surface with high pressure water guns.

According to the product page, the vacuum weighs about 3kg and features a “commercial grade serviceable motor.” If this kind of cleaning convenience sounds appealing to you, expect the BucketVac to hit store shelves sometime before the end of the 4Q of this year. [BucketVac via Red Ferret via OhGizmo]

Reading this retrospective, I’m both surprised and unsurprised at how innovative and well-designed the Dustbuster is. It was rechargeable, wall-mountable, used a high-tech (for the time) design based on a familiar product (the dustpan), had an immediately catchy name and was instantly indispensable for every suburban family in the country. I remember sitting on the carpet and playing with it, which is certainly not something I was likely to do with a damn cleaning product, and the product’s name quickly became both a universal noun and verb (”Oh yeah, I Dustbusted the stairs yesterday.”).

The Dustbuster is, I’m comfortable saying, the gadget nerd’s cleaning tool. It’s portable, battery-powered, cute, and versatile, and has definitely made our lives better. Cleaner, at least. [Popular Mechanics]

Did you just participate in a chili dog eating contest? Worry not, because the Neorest now whips up a tornado flush that can tackle anything that might stick to the inside of the bowl. It also has a special CeFiONtect glazing to prevent stains in the first place. I, for one, can’t wait until Toto-esque toilet tech is more widely used in the US. [Neorest LE and Neorest SE via Trendir via DVICE]

Honestly, any DVD player cleaning kit would probably work just as well, but if you like all of your boxes to match before they’re thrown away, the Wii Lens Cleaning Kit is available in the US for $US10. Whether you go generic or official, do make sure to try a cleaning kit of some sort if you’ve been receiving disc read errors as a dirty lens is probably the culprit. [Nintendo via Kotaku]

The ‘bot interfaces with an office tower’s elevators via an optical control system (which it uses laser orientation to find), effectively eliminating the need for multiple bots on different floors, all in the name of “achieving homogenisation and the environment clean and tidy with a good feeling to move,” according to Google Translate.

Whether the Heavy Services Robots Local 121 will have anything to say about all of the robots that just became redundancies, we shall see. [PDF press release (Japanese) via Crunch Gear]

In other words, this treatment doesn’t keep your touchscreen from collecting your filthy secretions — it spreads the goo around until you just don’t notice it. Whatever the method, if this film can keep iPods from looking like the back window of a short bus after a few minutes of usage, then by all means, Tsujiden, deceive me into a feeling of false cleanliness. [Tech-On]

They’ve released five different sprays for five different types of devices: a camera spray, a mobile phone spray, an iPhone spray (Buchanan posits that this one is made of pure angel tears), a GPS spray and a laptop spray. Yes, Monster wants you to think that your GPS and your mobile phone need separate sprays, lest your phone is destroyed by the magical chemicals that can only clean a surface that displays driving directions. While yes, perhaps laptop screens need a different spray than the glass iPhone, this is a bit beyond overkill.

Each bottle of these precious fluids cost US$10, which is a pretty sizable markup seeing that they just took a bunch of Windex, watered it down and put it into tiny bottles with different coloured labels on it. [CrunchGear]