Say what you will about Dyson, but you can’t deny the British tech company loves to mess with the laws of physics. From inventing the bagless vac to turning hair dryers into jet engines, Dyson just can’t help but Dyson things up. And now, it’s done it again—with a cordless stick vacuum so absurdly slim, you’ll mistake it for a selfie stick.
Folks, meet the Dyson PencilVac Fluffycones. Yes, that’s the actual name. Yes, it’s real. And yes, that long, skinny pole is a fully functioning vacuum cleaner. It’s 38 mm in diameter—about as wide as a fat marker—making it the slimmest cordless stick vacuum in the world. So slim, in fact, it can clean under furniture with just 95 mm of clearance. That’s flatter than some laptops.
Powering this pencil-thin wonder is Dyson’s smallest and fastest motor yet: the Hyperdymium 140k. Despite being just 28 mm wide, it spins up to 140,000 RPM—basically the vacuum equivalent of a tiny Formula 1 engine. How they packed it in there without opening a wormhole, I’ll never know.
Also new is the Fluffycones cleaner head, equipped with four conical brushes that spin in opposite directions to vacuum forward, backward, sideways, diagonally—basically, however your arm decides to flail. The cone shape helps shoot hair outward instead of tangling it up, which means you can skip the whole gross “cutting hair off the brush roller with scissors” part of vacuuming.
Both the Fluffycones and its lighter sibling, the PencilVac Fluffy, promise up to 30 minutes of cleaning time, and the included removable battery means you can double that if you have a spare. And because it’s 2025, yes, it syncs with the MyDyson app so you can track runtime, get maintenance tips, and pretend you’re vacuuming in the metaverse.
Other perks include a syringe-style dustbin that hygienically ejects compressed dirt, a laser light to expose dust like a CSI crime scene, and a magnetic charging dock that’s always ready to go.
Available now in Japan for a too-intense-for-my-bank-account 84,920 yen [JP] (about 590 USD). But hey, at least it comes with a free extra battery if you buy from Dyson directly. Dyson: still redefining vacuums, one strange shape at a time.
It looks like Dyson’s obsession with the tube did not end with the hairdryer.
Images: Dyson [JP].
