Today’s Groupon offers a Dyson V6 Absolute cordless vacuum.

James Dyson never cared much what things are supposed to look like. A trained artist and architect, he turned to engineering while struggling with a wheelbarrow stuck in the mud. This could be better, he thought. He replaced its wheels with a ball and dubbed the playful-looking tool the ballbarrow. His career began in earnest when he passed a local timber yard and stopped to admire its giant cyclone as it pulled sawdust from the air. Fifteen years and more than 5,000 prototypes later, he created a vacuum cleaner with cyclone technology rather than unreliable suction. The machine won consumers with its performance, and wowed the design community with its unusual look.

Today, Dyson’s engineers follow their founder’s example: identify problematic tools and make them better. They design vacuum cleaners, fans, heaters, hand dryers, and other tools. Though seemingly basic, each gadget incorporates cutting-edge proprietary technology. Dyson carefully guards its engineering secrets behind speech-absorbing walls, thumb-print screeners, and lion statues that spring to life when they smell an intruder. They did allow the Queen to visit for her Golden Jubilee, and they released some creations for display in New York’s MoMA, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, and others around the world.

The Specifics

• Powerful digital motor
• Direct-drive cleaner head with 150% more brush bar power than the Dyson V6 Animal vacuum
• Hard floor cleaner head for fine dust and debris pick-up on hard floors
• Highly-efficient post-motor filter to capture allergens and expel cleaner air
• 15 two-tier radial cyclones to capture fine dust
• Up to 20 minutes of powerful fade-free suction
• Maximum power mode provides up to six minutes of higher suction
• Mini motorised tool to remove pet hair and ground-in dirt
• Balanced for floor to ceiling cleaning
• Quickly converts to a handheld cleaner
• Hygienic bin emptying
• Convenient docking station
• Suction power on maximum mode: 100AW
• Suction power on normal mode: 28AW
• Bin volume: 0.4L
• Weight: 2.7kg
• 2-year guarantee included

In the Box

• Dyson V6 Absolute
• Direct-drive cleaner head
• Hard floor cleaner head
• Mini motorised tool
• Docking station
• Combination tool
• Rigid crevice tool