Dyson’s New PencilWash Is Here
Welcome to a new world of cleaning options from Dyson.
After announcing several new models last year at IFA Berlin, Dyson has started rolling out its latest range of vacuum cleaners and wet floor cleaners to the public. Last week, Dyson’s newest robot vacuum, the Spot+Scrub Ai ($1,200), became available for purchase online, along with the Clean+Wash Hygiene ($500), one of the brand’s new wet floor cleaners. The recently announced Dyson PencilWash ($350) is available today.
This is just the first of many Dyson launches we expect to see this year, but for those with hard floors that need a good scrub, the three tools above might be suitable. WIRED will test each one to see which ones are worth buying, but here’s a quick overview.
Wet floor wars
The Clean+Wash Hygiene ($500) is a new name, but a look we’ve seen before. It’s similar to the WashG1, launching in 2024, with a cordless design focused entirely on cleaning hard floors with water. Clean+Wash Hygiene changes the way debris is collected. It still has a dirty water tank and a debris tray, but it keeps both in the head of the unit rather than recycling dirty water into a separate tank on the cleaner. Disposal is similar to the old unit, with the user still having to empty the dirty water and debris tray, but removal of these items can occur at the same time. The old model had the tank and the tray in different parts of the vacuum cleaner. The Clean+Wash Hygiene station also has a hot air dry function to dry rollers and a run time of 45 minutes, which is 10 minutes longer than the WashG1.
Meanwhile, the PencilWash ($350), a new, smaller wet floor cleaner announced last month, shares the same shape as the PencilVac released last year. The PencilWash is slim and lightweight, weighing just under 5 pounds, with a 1.5-inch diameter handle. Small spaces are where it shines, and it lets you control how much water to use, so you can apply more to stains or flooring types that need it. Like the PencilVac, the PencilWash has a 30-minute run time, but Dyson claims the PencilWash’s 10-ounce water tank can still clean up to 1,076 feet of floor. It’s not much less than the larger Clean+Wash, and I’m curious how the task of emptying the dirty water tank will compare.
Robot game
Dyson’s all-new robot vacuum and mop is also now available. The Dyson Spot+Scrub Ai ($1,200) promises to detect hidden stains on your floors, like the Shark PowerDetect UV Reveal released earlier this month. As the name suggests, it uses Ai programming to spot these spots, along with what Dyson calls a “high-contrast green light” to reveal hidden spots. The mop vacuum has a new wet roller that the robot also cleans with each rotation, and it lifts this wet roller as it moves across carpets. Compared to the battery of the wet floor cleaners above, the Spot+Scrub runs laps around them, with up to 200 minutes of battery life. This will be an interesting model to test and compare to the latest robot vacuums, especially since Shark has made a similar product that can spot and scrub stains. I’m particularly intrigued by the three-cartridge base design.
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