Dyson’s newest device for dealing with dirt in your home is a mechanical mop. Unlike the British engineering company’s flagship fans, hair dryers, and vacuums, the new Dyson WashG1 floor washing machine doesn’t use precision-engineered fans or a fine-tuned Hyperdymium motor. Instead, the mop relies on mechanical agitation to clean up wet spills, picks up dirt and debris, and gives your hard floors a really good wash. The WashG1 wet floor cleaner — aka mop — costs $699.
According to Tom Moody, president of Dyson Home, the big problem its engineers set out to solve is that most mops spread dirty water over your floor when mopping — you know, how when you stick the mop into the bucket full of dirt water and then swish it back all over your floor while “cleaning”? Dyson thinks it’s cracked this conundrum by constantly pulsing clean water onto its two rolling microfiber mop heads while they work.