Posts tagged: Dyson


Consumer Reports’ New Vacuum Ratings

By DIY Maven

Lately, there’s been a lot of Curbly discussion concerning the Dyson. Comments in reply to the posts suggest either people love it or hate it. For a less polarized opinion, you might want to check out the March ‘07 issue of Consumer Reports, which rates 40 upright (plus 24 canister) vacuums.

This round of testing included, for the first time, pet hair pick-up-ability, which would suggest the Dyson Animal, marketed to eat up Fido’s fluffy lefto » READ MORE

March 01, 2007
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A little more Dyson love

By malleron

VintageSwank has a post gushing about the Dyson animal vacuum and I feel compelled to put my 2-cents in.

First, I don't have the animal model -- I have the original taxi-cab yellow model. I picked it up at Best Buy for around $350. That's a serious chunk of change, especially for a vacuum, and for me at that time it was a small fortune. Indeed, it was the most I'd ever spent on anything and it was caused me a great deal of pain to buy.

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February 20, 2007
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It's Worth The Hype - And the Price

By VintageSwank

 

So I'm sure you all have seen the Dyson. The modern styled vacuum that is not your mother’s canister vacuum.

 

 

 

Well of course everyone says, it's a vacuum how much better can it be than ever other vacuum out there....well I was skeptical too, until I got one. I had no idea how dirty I was and now I cannot stop vacuuming. They come in a variety of styles and options. I got the animal which is meant for people who own pets. It does work!! » READ MORE

January 18, 2007
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A rough guide to the world of design.

By roadvermin

 

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We picked up a copy of Le design hier, aujourd'hui, demain : Mode d'emploi (The design of yesterday, today, tomorrow : The way to do it) by Elisabeth Couturier the other day in a book store in Lyon. At first glance we noticed it had lots of cool pictures of the sort of stuff we like and so we decided to fork out the €28.50 necessary to attain a copy for ourselves. On closer inspection in a bar down the street it became apparent to us that this » READ MORE

November 21, 2006
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