Dyson speeds up 'world's fastest motor,' gives it some fancy packaging

Sir James Dyson is on a mission to tick as many boxes as possible with the hetero male demographic. He starts out well, bolting the "world's fastest motor" to a gun-shaped instrument of cleanliness. The product pages advertise 10 minutes of "high constant suction," and the top model is named the Animal, but the fact is it's still a vacuum cleaner. The motor is a direct descendant of the one found in the Airblade, with rotational speed jumping from 88K to 104K RPM. Dyson has said he hopes to harness the technology in other devices, including electric cars, giving credence to previously discredited rumors to that effect. Beyond the read link you will find a picture of the tiny speed demon in the loving hands of its inventor.

[Via Tech Digest]

[Beaker.gj @ Jun 29th 2009 5:39PM]

What I want to know is, can I use this to power my Air Pod?

[Monkey with glasses @ Jun 29th 2009 5:42PM]

This + blow up doll =1 mean blow job.

[TheObserver @ Jun 29th 2009 9:56PM]

I am just curious about math on this one..

104K RPM = 1733 Rev per sec.. if the spindle has 1" diameter at widest... approx 26mm. then (3.14 x 26 x 1733) = 141509 mm per second. = 141 m per second = 8,640 m per min = 507,600 m per hour = 507 km per hour = 315 mph...

at 1" diameter .. FAST!!!

[basroil @ Jun 29th 2009 11:13PM]

@TheObserver :
If the shaft is 1", it would have to be made of solid steel to survive the forces from rotation. Making it solid steel will make it really heavy, and spinning it up to 100k would require more energy than your standard 12/24V battery can store in something that size. Basically for beaker's question, the answer based on your inductions would be: enough for a very, very long time... and you could probably charge your laptop while you are at it.
We are looking at a very small motor that is probably directly driving fan blades (likely a high strength steel or aircraft grade aluminum), since gearing it down would be hard, and standard bearings just don't work at those speeds (air bearings do, but they get expensive when you are talking about adding one to every moving component running above 45k rpm)

[Samboini @ Jun 30th 2009 1:23AM]

I'm pretty sure a dentist drill is around 800k rpm and a turbocharger in an engine can get upto 500k rpm. Not quite sure where his claim is coming from.

[lalondegeoffrey @ Jun 30th 2009 11:01AM]

why not just gear down a more powerful motor? you could have smaller rpms on the engine, but the output could have infinite rpms, if the motor is powerful enough... doesn't seem like the claim: world's fastest motor, is important at all...

[benahad @ Jun 30th 2009 11:34AM]

This thing really sucks.

[bimmerfreak0 @ Jun 29th 2009 5:41PM]

wow...i can tell you that im not buying one of these until they reach 1,000,000 rpm's or more....just like my dynex's 1,000,000,000,000,000:1 contrast ratio with negative response time (its too fast man!!!)

[Sisyphus @ Jun 29th 2009 5:44PM]

Hey! That looks just like my girlfriend!

[loocas @ Jun 29th 2009 6:57PM]

And he never knew...

[IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII (BarCODE) @ Jun 29th 2009 8:11PM]

No, that' just the electric part of his Pneumatic Girl Friend.

[EmaSca @ Jun 29th 2009 5:47PM]

Well... where is the NOS button?!?

[bandigolo @ Jun 29th 2009 5:47PM]

10 minutes of high constant suction? They should sell this by the hour!

[Monkey with glasses @ Jun 29th 2009 5:52PM]

Know what else does "10 minutes of high constant suction"? A corner worker but they do charge after 10mins.

[oghowie @ Jun 29th 2009 5:47PM]

Only 10 minutes of use before the next charge or did I read that wrong?

[Frankenstein Black @ Jun 29th 2009 6:28PM]

No you didn't read it wrong. Currently own the DC16 and they DON'T MAKE A FRAKING WALL ADAPTER SO THAT YOU CAN RUN IT OFF OF THE WALL!
http://www.dyson.com/store/product.asp?product=DC16-SY-STD
Cant someone, anyone make a FRAKING wall adapter for the damn thing? Would even settle for a 3rd party after market one. SAVE YOUR MONEY! No one wants a vacume that only runs 5 to 10mins before needing a recharge no matter how awesome...

PS Its like having a Ferrari that only went 10 miles before needing a fill up and then the gas station (if there happens to be one near by) took an HOUR to fill it up!

[smak @ Jun 29th 2009 6:33PM]

That is correct. This replaces (or compliments) the Dyson Root 6, which provided 6 minutes of suction before the battery died.

10 minutes is plenty for the type of cleaning this device is meant for, and make no mistake, it is MUCH more powerful than any Dustbuster or similar product.

The 6 minute running time of the Root 6 wasn't enough... 10 minutes is just enough.

[oghowie @ Jun 29th 2009 6:39PM]

They should probably worry about it lasting longer vs having it suck harder......

[d0mth0ma5 @ Jun 29th 2009 6:49PM]

It's not designed to be a proper hoover (sorry, vacuum cleaner), more for picking up dust after drilling and the like.

[Wwhat @ Jun 29th 2009 8:07PM]

Dyson, madoff, they all incredibly get away with it, people are idiots, and being idiots you need to point it out again and again and again and again because it won't stick since.. people are idiots.

[arkweld @ Jun 29th 2009 8:43PM]

@ Wwhat

and this is where I point out that you are an idiot, because as you state, some people really need help realizing that.

So just to be clear, you are an idiot.

[LondonConsultant @ Jun 29th 2009 5:48PM]

Is there a range of attachments to exploit that 10 minutes of "high constant suction"?

[B3astofthe3ast @ Jun 29th 2009 5:55PM]

"high constant suction"

Thats what she said?

[andres @ Jun 29th 2009 10:54PM]

how could she when her mouth was full... of cake...

[Mr. Oos @ Jun 29th 2009 5:59PM]

Engadget should give away blow-up doll girlfriends as a 'Recession Antidote" for all you posters who are clearly in desperate need of one. I'm surprised you can all manage to post on articles so quickly while only using one hand to type; the other being used for a combination jerkoff/energy drink pour.

[lawyer bird @ Jun 29th 2009 7:46PM]

that seemed out of place. and i think you misjudge the average engadget reader. a lot of us are pretty normal and sexually successful people...i think

[ben @ Jun 29th 2009 6:00PM]

This will be on woot soon enough.

[AMiSH PiRATE @ Jun 29th 2009 6:02PM]

how do I unlock this in rachet & clank?

[beq @ Jun 29th 2009 6:12PM]

My parents bought the DC25 Animal ($550 + tax), which was Dyson's top-of-the-line upright model before their latest DC28 Animal ($600 + tax).

Before that, my wife got pressured into buying two Kirby Sentria vacuums by the *very* pushy and obnoxious Kirby door-to-door salesman (~$1K each).

Now we just need to get the top Oreck vacuum ($600-800 last I checked) to feel like complete fools...

Anyways, the Dyson is surprisingly small and light (cheap plastic parts?), so I guess we're paying more for the "new technology". On the other hand the Kirby is waay heavy, using an old-fashioned large motor. Not sure which I prefer...

[oghowie @ Jun 29th 2009 6:16PM]

$1k for a vacuum? That's crrazzzzzyyy.

[Jacob @ Jun 29th 2009 6:30PM]

you'd be lucky if you could get a Kirby for only a $1k. They sell them for around $1900 most of the time. And the salesmen don't want to negotiate the price because they're paid on commission and the less they sell if for, the less they're paid. (I would have worked for them but I realized I'd have to become an annoying asshole to do so.) Also they're required to cover your room(s) with those white dirt pads (around 100 of them) in order to freak you out into thinking your floors and furniture are too dirty. Nice scare tactic for them, haha.
If you must get a Kirby, buy on the internet. The company doesn't allow it, but when dealerships go out of business, they have to unload their stock.

[Neon Jebus @ Jun 29th 2009 7:18PM]

You forgot about the Rainbow! Reminds me of Kirby's as far as price. Always wanted one because you could add scents to the water collection container.

Very happy with my DC15 (Original Ball) and DC6.

Has anyone ever tried the Dyson hand dryer? Ran across one at an airport. The thing didn't work worth a crap.

[Scott @ Jun 29th 2009 7:42PM]

my room mate and I went in on one of the hand dryers we love it. lol its a bit strange to have in our place.

[Andir3.0 @ Jun 29th 2009 10:12PM]

The Raindow was actually a cool little machine... and it did a hell of a job. I inherited my parents when I went to college and it did it's job with all the shit that ended up in the carpets. Beer stains you had to use carpet cleaner, but the occasional spilled ashtray and whatnot was no problem for it.

[Uncontrol @ Jun 29th 2009 6:20PM]

hey did anyone make a joke reducing women to sexual objects yet? boy i sure hope not

[Thunderbuck @ Jun 29th 2009 11:38PM]

Women? No. Blow-up dolls? Well...

[brett @ Jun 29th 2009 6:23PM]

can you imagine if this guy worked for steorn?

they might actually...y'know... *do* something.

[Don Corleone @ Jun 29th 2009 6:28PM]

But will it blend?

[smak @ Jun 29th 2009 6:36PM]

HAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH HOLY SHIT THAT JOKE NEVER GETS OLD!

[John @ Jun 29th 2009 8:18PM]

I thought this was some kind of blender/gun and imagined blending margaritas while shooting them across the room into a cup or mouth.

[PatD. @ Jun 29th 2009 6:29PM]

Reminds me of the old joke about which stops sucking first, a wife or a dyson?

Seriously though, it'll be the dyson. I've had two top of the range dysons and both were useless after about 6 months.

[SnazzyiPhoneGuy @ Jun 29th 2009 6:40PM]

I wish my wife could suck me for 6 months.

[Mat @ Jun 29th 2009 6:42PM]

I assume that you sent them for warranty repairs if they actually were broken. The 5 yr warranty is really good.

[Richard @ Jun 29th 2009 6:48PM]

I've had three Dysons and they all broke. Not only were they unreliable they were also getting worse with each iteration. In the most recent one they put holes in the side of the head (presumably to reduce strain on the parts and stop them breaking) but this substantially reduced the suction on the carpet to a pathetic level.

Dysons are also ridiculously over- engineered with the stupid handle on the tube that makes using it very strenuous and the absurdly big head that makes vacuuming in tight areas near impossible. I finally had enough of them and bought a Panasonic. It was less than a third of the price of a Dyson but has substantially better suction, is much easier to use (no handles or massive head) and so far it hasn't fallen to pieces like the Dysons do.

The original DC02 was an innovative vacuum cleaner but now Dysons are vastly out performed by any cheap vacuum cleaner. They're charging high prices for crap products and are living on their brand name alone.

[phrint @ Jun 29th 2009 6:46PM]

"World's fastest motor" equals "World's worst battery life". I made the mistake of purchasing Dyson's first handheld, the DC16, after being impressed with their Animal vacuum. Little did I know it had a worse battery life than the iPhone 3G. I can't even use the thing for more than 25 seconds without it dying out completely. The Dyson people tell me to clean the filter. I did that several times and still to no avail. Dyson handheld's = FAIL!

[John Hughes @ Jun 29th 2009 7:14PM]

Remonds me of Sir Clive Sinclair.

[Galley @ Jun 29th 2009 7:17PM]

Could it suck the chrome of a trailer hitch?

[Mike @ Jun 29th 2009 7:48PM]

Like your mom?

I kid, I kid.

[nanomatrix @ Jun 29th 2009 7:55PM]

"I've had three Dysons and they all broke."

Richard: I think I'll buy a Dyson, crap it broke...
Richard: I think I'll buy a Dyson, crap it broke...
Richard: I think I'll buy a Dyson, crap it broke, hmm maybe I should stop buying a Dyson...

rofl... I got a bridge for ya ;)

[Dave @ Jun 29th 2009 8:27PM]

Instead of a bridge, why not just another dyson?