Escargot: A Stylish Vacuum Cleaner for Your Filthy Home

December 24th, 2009 admin

Topics: chores, household, vacuum, Wired

Unless you live in what the Lady calls “Carpeted England”, where even the bathrooms have a thick mantle of Axminster ready to soak up smelly spills, you probably don’t have much use for a vacuum cleaner. A broom and a mop will do the trick just fine, and leave you in silence so you can enjoy some music along the way. But if you are unlucky enough to have carpeted floors, you could at least do yourself the favor of sucking the filth out of them in some style, with this Electrolux/Toshiba collaboration, the Escargot. Weighing in at just shy of five pounds, the brushed metal …

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