While watching Shark tonight I saw a commercial for the new Dyson root 6 handheld vacuum cleaner. The commercial was pretty cool. It showed the vacuum cleaner being built, in a Lego-like fashion.
Aside from the coolness of the commercial itself, it occurs to me that the design of the root 6 is quite similar to some of the designs I have seen for leaf blowers. Maybe Dyson needs to look into building a line of outdoor products next.
But what problem would it solve? The Dyson’s raison d’être was the suction which no one else could apparently do correctly. The only thing that remained to be solved with leaf blowers was to situate the mouth so that it’s an extension of your arm. This is done neatly by the offest tube on the Husqvarna 125B.
Now if Dyson would do a leaf-vacuum that would be something. Leaf blowers have always seemed clumsy to me, leaves are always blowing off somewhere that was already cleaned.