{"id":3450,"date":"2009-12-27T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/when-style-meets-suction-the-escargot-vacuum-vacuums\/"},"modified":"2009-12-27T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T19:30:00","slug":"when-style-meets-suction-the-escargot-vacuum-vacuums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/when-style-meets-suction-the-escargot-vacuum-vacuums.php","title":{"rendered":"When Style Meets Suction: The Escargot Vacuum [Vacuums]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2009\/12\/escargot.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/840fc_500x_escargot.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Vacuuming is functional, and sometimes it's <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/search\/dyson\">bloody expensive<\/a>, but rarely would I use the term \"fashionable\" to describe this weekly chore. And yet, this Toshiba\/Electrolux collaboration, inexplicably called the Escargot, exists.<\/p><p>The tiny shoulder slung vacuum is encased in brushed metal, costs a modest $130, and weighs just five pounds. It's somewhat quiet too, says Toshiba, with an output of 65dB.<\/p><p>Still, vacuuming is a solitary, relatively noisy activity that pisses off family pets and annoys me to no end&mdash;this coming from a guy with hardwood floors and one rug. Why bother making it pretty? 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And yet, this Toshiba\/Electrolux collaboration, inexplicably called the Escargot, exists.The tiny shoulder slung vacuum is encased in brushed metal, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/when-style-meets-suction-the-escargot-vacuum-vacuums.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurist"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}