Dyson DC16 Root 6 Hand Vac

Dyson vacuum cleaners explore the same “strange and yellow” territory pioneered by our beloved DeWalt, putting funky spheres in the bottom of their cleaners and generally making the functionality of the unit dictate the entirety of its exterior design.

The DC16 Root 6, Dyson’s sci-fi riff on a Dustbuster, is in lock-step with the company’s design ethos, looking like a nail-gun crossed with an AT-AT.

It’s apparently got that miracle “cyclonic” technology from the vacuum cleaners that doesn’t stove up the suction just because you’ve filled half the bin with cat hair and silverfish carcasses. Even better, it has a lithium ion battery, which charges faster than competitors’ nickel cadmium jobbers. (My Dustbuster is a handy tool that I often put to use for the thirty-to-forty seconds it operates between charges.)

The Root 6 should be the end-all, be-all of hand vacs, considering it retails for 150 bucks. My little Dustbuster, crappy battery and all, only set me back a twenty.

Product Page [Dyson via werty]

Update: Looks like CrunchGear got their hands on one. This is why I’m not in the gadget biz anymore!