Space can be a premium you don’t have in some homes, and so Dyson has created the super slim vacuum you didn’t know you need.
Spare a thought for small homes, will you? Cupboards and cabinets may hold gadgets like the vacuum, keeping them well out of view, but for some homes, even the space for that tech is a bit of a luxury.
Depending on how much extra room you have, you may not have the place to put a vacuum.
While a robotic vacuum can help with aspects of that, there are things a robo-vac can’t do that you still need a stick vac for. Cleaning dust off lamps and ceilings, running a pass over the wall, vacuuming a mattress of dust mites, and even simply cleaning up big messes of debris and other bits left by the kids and the dog.
Any vac can handle that, but every vac comes with needing to be stored somewhere.
That could be why Dyson has worked on a potential solution, resulting in what it says is “the world’s slimmest vacuum”.
Called the “PencilVac”, it’s a super slim Dyson stick vac that manages to throw all the hardware into a stick measuring the rough diameter of a 20 cent coin, and yet including the hardware Dyson vacs are known for.
There’s a Hyperdymium motor sitting in the barrel capable of spinning up to 140,000RPM, as well as a new bin design that compresses dust as it’s separated from the air, holding more than you might expect and working for 30 minutes.
The batteries are swappable just like other Dyson models, and the charging dock is magnetic, taking roughly four hours to charge the batteries for the super slim vacuum.
You’ll of course need something to vacuum with, and for that, there’s a new head.
Attached to the PencilVac is something Dyson calls the “Fluffycones cleaner”, and yet looks a little like a double-head. Each side of that head fires out a green light to highlight dust and debris, just like on the Dyson V15 Detect, and there are four brush bars to get rid of hair as debris is picked up.
As it cleans, the back bars rotate in the opposite direction from the front, effectively working together. There’s a lot happening here.
The Dyson PencilVac even works with the Dyson app, providing maintenance alerts and access to other settings, much like Dyson’s fans. However, like other vacuum models, it also comes with an LCD screen to let you know what speed mode you’re on and the time on the battery left.
“Engineering our smallest and fastest vacuum motor is no simple feat,” said John Churchill, Chief Technology Officer at Dyson.
“It was more than miniaturising every piece of technology. It is a precise integration of motor design, electronics, software, and hardware, all working together seamlessly,” he said.
“From a new motor, a new paradigm in cleaner heads, to a new separation system, the Dyson PencilVac represents our most advanced engineering to date.”
One thing you won’t find just yet is a price, with Australia on the cards for release, but no official price or release date. Representative for Dyson in Australia say the PencilVac is coming soon to Australia, though, Japan will get it first, and America likely next year.
