World's Smallest Vacuum

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To help appreciate the magnitude of the task DARPA had posed, consider the Creare Engineering miniature turbo/drag pump, considered to be the world's smallest practical turbo pump produced by conventional machining tools. The pump is some 3.8 cm in diameter with a length of 8 cm, making it slightly larger than a D-cell battery. It weighs about 150 g (5.3 oz), and can reach an ultimate pressure of a few uPa. The pumping speed is four liters/second at a rotor speed of 200,000 rpm, and consumes about 2 W in doing so. This pump needs to be followed by a roughing pump as it cannot pump against atmospheric pressure. If you compare that to other vacuums in their range, such as the GTech Power Floor and GTech Pro, the battery is less powerful. They each have 22 Volts. It’s really impressive how GTech have managed to include all that power into such a small and lightweight vacuum.

Desulforudis audaxviator was found 2.8 km beneath the Earth’s surface in the Mponeng gold mine, South Africa. The telescopic handle can easily be extended and retracted for your needs, and when you’re done you can detach it and put it away. Thanks to this innovative and modular design, controlling it around your home will be like child’s play… It measured at just 54 mm (2.12 in) long - you can see it in the image above next to a standard sized business card. Three DARPA-funded research teams have completed a foundational study of chip-scale vacuum pumps by inventing three very different approaches to removing air from a sample chamber with a volume of one cubic millimeter, which is about one-tenth the volume of a grain of rice. These new technologies will enable many micro-scale devices which require a vacuum or a controlled flow of gas, such as Lab-on-a-Chip sensors, radio frequency MEMS switches and microscopic vacuum tubes.I’m sure there are plenty of users out there who will be thankful for such a lightweight, hand-held machine.

To truly understand the benefits for the environment, we need to look at the power consumption of the device and the waste it produces, in this case, the bags. Power Consumption An added bonus is that it can be charged both on and off the main vacuum unit – no more removing and refitting the battery. Even though it doesn’t come with any additional tools, the versatility of the telescopic handle allows this vacuum to be used for a wide range of tasks, such as cleaning your stairs and upholstery.Although it does have a slightly toy like appearance to it so you might be able to disguise it as one. It’s not to the same level as other vacuums, though, like the Dyson Animal V8. 2. Eco Battery Tom Wiberg (Sweden) built a motorcycle, which he named Smalltoe, that has a front wheel diameter of 16 mm (0.62 in) and a rear wheel diameter of 22 mm (0.86 in). Additionally, they estimate the battery to last up to five years and say that it can be easily replaced. Does it actually last that long…? Of course there will also be some negatives when looking at any product. The biggest one in this case is that there are no attachments. GTech are not exaggerating when it comes to this – the whole device could basically fit in a kitchen drawer!