For most people, a vacuum cleaner is not really a very inspiring object. Lets face it, you dont really care how it works and you probably do not even want to endure the chore of vacuuming in the first place. However, almost everyone who doesnt want to live in a pig-sty needs one (note: students need not apply!). Recently, however, things have begun to change. Peoples attitudes are changing. Vacuum cleaners are becoming interesting and its all thanks to a guy called James Dyson, inventor of the Dyson vacuum cleaner.
Thanks to Dyson, vacuum cleaners have taken on a personality and life all of their own. The same tactics employed by the likes of Apple to successfully ply their iMacs and iPods to the mass population (think: design and color) have now been used to great effect in the vacuum cleaner industry. And with the same results; the proliferation of styles, colors and the general level of gadgetry associated with these newfangled vacuum cleaners (the new Dyson DC15 has 182 patents filed for it), not to mention the clean lines and chic design, means that you no longer have to hide it away in the back of a darkened cupboard. It can become a design statement in its own...