Gadgetory

hey I'm seeing that's right Chris standing beside the sauna clean VT plus this is a vacuum cleaner that you might have seen marketed on TV or through a online YouTube ad but it's got a unique approach to getting dirt out of your carpet what it does is it uses vibration to create what it calls sonic cleaning technology and all that means is this got a vibrating bar in the bottom of it beside that brush roll that vibrating bar is gonna buzz and it's kind of shake dirt up out of your carpet and into the bin a lot easier so sonic lien says now taking a look at this thing I don't like the design it looks dated to me it's trying to look futuristic it's got sort of a robotic coat of paint looks like a Star Wars droid extra but that said minimalism has its upside there is a nice lightness to this vacuum and only weighs about 11.25 pounds so if you want something light and easy to push around your living room this might be the vacuum for you that doesn't make it more maneuverable though because it doesn't have that rotating neck or that ball design that Dyson uses so it doesn't turn quite as easily it's pretty old fashioned vacuum in that regard something else to keep in mind is that the VT plus uses bags and not canisters you'll need to change these out and keep purchasing them going forward so let's take another look at that sonic cleaning technology that vibrating bar on the bottom now my question as I started testing this was does that vibration agitate your carpets in a different way than the brushroll which spins brushes through the carpet fiber already does does that add anything new and to test that out I got this glass of water here will show you if I put it up against the brushroll and let the brushes spin against it not a lot of movement there if any but then if I take the glass of water and hold it right up against the vibrating bar you see some t-rex style ripples going through the surface of that glass so pretty unique pretty different there's something going on there that you don't get with a brush roll so does that translate the cleaning performance well actually it performed a lot better than I expected in the Cheerios and pet hair test it did among the best of any vacuum we've tested the problem though was sand and to be honest that's the test I expected the vibration technology to have the greatest impact on it didn't this vacuum finished in the bottom compared to vacuums like the ork touch in the dyson DC 65 the sonic P and V T plus retails online for $200 plus about 30 bucks for shipping and handling I don't love the design and I'm not convinced that vibrating technology adds a whole lot that Santa's should have been better if that was the case but it did perform well and at that price point it's not a bad deal so I say give it a shot if you like what you see for CNET I'm right Kristy