Toshiba High-End Vacuum Cleaner Goes ‘Shin’

Where’s that English word when I need it? Toshiba has a new high-end vacuum cleaner that goes ‘shin.’ Shin – means quiet, or silence or absent of noise.

The Quie is a vacuum cleaner that costs more than Y40,000 ($400+) and it is cleaning up (pun intended) in the market.

The Quie borrowed from auto technology to make the thing quiet enough to be used at night without disturbing the neighbors. This is no small task considering when I lived with my in-laws in a house, we could hear the neighbors toilet flush.

The inspiration for quiet – the suspension system of cars. Cars use cutting-edge technology to reduce noise and vibration for passengers. Hmm…said the Toshiba development team that was challenged two years ago to come up with a quieter machine.

Until Toshiba made quietness a factor, customers had two criteria for buying a vacuum cleaner:

1. suction power

2. cleanliness of the air exhausted

And then there were three.