Dyson's latest stick vacuum is impossibly thin and lightweight - but is it worth it at $599?

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• The Dyson PencilVac goes connected merchantability contiguous for $599.
• It's the thinnest instrumentality vacuum connected the market, with a 1.5-inch-diameter handle.
• The centrifugal wrong is Dyson's fastest and smallest yet.

We haven't heard overmuch from Dyson astir the PencilVac since the company's showcase event successful May 2025. Until now: The Dyson PencilVac has conscionable gone connected sale.

This is Dyson's thinnest vacuum to date. There's nary protruding particulate canister, arsenic the PencilVac's dustbin is built into the vacuum's hold rod. The result: a vacuum that's lightweight, thin, and not visually cumbersome. 

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The PencilVac looks reasonably casual to grip for radical of antithetic ages and abilities. The vacuum's cleaning caput is besides innovative, with what Dyson calls Fluffycones -- yes, that is simply a trademarked sanction -- replacing the accepted roller brush. The 4 cones counter-rotate to detangle hairsbreadth portion the vacuum cleans, truthful you don't person to spell successful and detangle hairsbreadth from the roller aft each session.

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The vacuum's centrifugal is built into the rod, making it Dyson's smallest yet fastest motor. Despite being tiny capable to acceptable into a 1.5-inch-wide tube, the almighty centrifugal spins astatine up to 140,000 RPM and delivers 50 AW of suction. 

The robot features 2 greenish lights to illuminate ungraded and debris successful beforehand of and down the vacuum, and it tin cleanable some ways. 

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Dyson is selling the PencilVac arsenic a cordless vacuum for design-conscious homes. Actually, it's much than that: It's the thinnest, lightest, and astir compact cordless vacuum connected the market. While that unsocial makes the PencilVac an manufacture pioneer, users volition payment from the vacuum's lithe construction, which lets it cleanable elevated areas similar ceiling fans, shelves, and curtains with 1 of the included attachments.

Though tiny and thin, the PencilVac isn't cheap. Dyson conscionable listed it for $599, disposable now. Other manufacturers are processing their ain versions of lightweight cordless vacuums, truthful we expect to spot akin options deed the marketplace aboriginal this year.