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Here’s What Happens When A Roomba Mates With An Air Purifier

9:00AM September 23, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

Moneual took a page from the book of iRobot and created an air purifier that motors around your house, doing its dirty work while you are away. More »

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The World’s Largest Floating Vacuum

2:03AM September 13, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Constructing your own personal Skull Island? Don’t waste time with some rinky-dink 80-year-old dustpan. This mammoth ship is too big to fit through the Panama Canal and can hoover enough soil to cover two football fields from 120m down. More »

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Crazy Guy Puts Out Fire With Vacuum Cleaner

12:32AM September 9, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Do you know the one about the guy who tries to put out a fire with a bloody vacuum cleaner? Yes, me neither, because that’s stupid, right? Well, it works. More »

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Dyson’s Newest Vac Stuffs All Its Guts In A Beautiful Sphere

8:00AM September 1, 2011 | Sam Biddle

A Dyson vacuum is almost as much a design-lust object as an appliance, and the new DC41 Animal (cool name for a vacuum!) only pushes that rep. Where’d all those weird hoses go? Hidden with minimalist magics. More »

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Toshiba’s Roomba-Killer Packs Two CPUs… In A Vacuum

10:47PM August 24, 2011 | Sam Biddle

The international floor cleaning robot slave arena just got hotter — Toshiba’s new Smarbo (terrible name) looks and functions pretty much exactly like the Roomba we love so much, but has two brains inside. Twice the cleanliness? More »

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LG’s To Challenge Roomba For The Throne

2:00AM July 2, 2011 | Adrian Covert

If you’re into the whole autonomous vacuuming thing (this guy is), Roomba’s mastered the art to the point that it’s pretty much unnecessary to look elsewhere for your cleaning needs. But lo and behold, LG has popped up on the scene with their own robot vacuum. More »

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Vacuum Cleaner Made From Cardboard Doesn’t Sound Too Robust

9:15PM July 1, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

You’d normally use a vacuum cleaner to suck up bits of paper, but instead, Vax’s next vacuum body will be made from corrugated cardboard, as a nod to the environment. The panels will actually pop out of the retail box it’s sold in, meaning there’s even less waste than you’d expect. More »

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Roomba 770: It Might Be Time To Sell Your Vacuum, Grandpa

6:30AM May 27, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Vacuums are old. Roombas are old. So who cares about a Roomba? When the latter can finally kick the former to the tech trash pile, we care. The dream of having a robot (effectively!) be my personal maid is alive. More »

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Concept Puppy Vacuum Cleaner Is Absolutely Adorable

9:20AM May 5, 2011 | Casey Chan

This vacuum cleaner concept from Hyun-seok Kim utilises four robotic “puppies” as the vacuum cleaners, they run around the house and clean up everything they can get their clean paws on. More »

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Praising Failure: James Dyson Talks Vacuum’s 5,127 Prototypes

1:00AM April 11, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Sir James Dyson, inventor of perhaps the most recognisable consumer vacuum on the market today, is completely comfortable with failure. He’s good at it—failure I mean—but most great inventors are. More »