Dyson’s Pencil Wash Promises You Can Spill, Then Scrub Like You Meant To
KEY POINTS
- •Dyson announced the PencilWash nine months after its PencilVac, aiming to clean hard floor stains with water.
- •The PencilWash weighs 4.9 pounds and features a 1.5-inch-diameter handle housing a water reservoir and motor.
- •It swaps a dust bin for a tank and uses a low-foaming cleaning solution applied via a single scrubbing roller.
Dyson dropped a new variation of its famous 1.5-inch-diameter 'world’s slimmest vacuum cleaner' PencilVac a mere nine months after debut, now rebranded as the PencilWash—but hold your applause, it trades dirt suction for scrubbing watery messes. Weighing a slightly heftier 4.9 pounds (about a pound more than the original vacuum’s featherweight four), this marvel squeezes batteries, motors, and a water tank into a handle thinner than a pencil and a cleaning head bearing just one scrubbing roller. Unlike the dust bin it ditched, the water tank uses low-foaming solution to wipe hard floors, presumably punishing spills—while cleaning enthusiasts balance the plus-size cleaning muscle with hopes no one trips over the slight weight gain.
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Because what we all needed was a pen-sized floor scrubber heavier than our laptops, Dyson’s PencilWash suggests we want spills treated like urgent messes not casual disasters.
The PencilWash is here proving Dyson believes the only emergency more urgent than dirt is realizing you spilled coffee mid-Dyson demo.
Dyson’s new 4.9-pound toy says, ‘Why just vacuum when you can also awkwardly mop with a device thinner than your patience?’
Source: Theverge | Published: 2/18/2026 | Author: Andrew Liszewski
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