Electrolux UltraSilencer Vacuum Contains iPod Dock

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Swedish giant Electrolux has been making vacuums for over 90 years, so it’s about time they included an iPod dock in their models. Their “UltraSilencer” line of canister vacuum cleaners will soon include an iPod dock, and they didn’t stop there, as they even did a scientific study to prove it’s usefulness.

Electrolux has released a 12-page whitepaper on their research into “Music Assisted Vacuum Cleaning”, which was written at the “Electrolux Centre for Acoustics Research” in Stockholm. In case you didn’t know, the Swedes take their vacuum cleaning very seriously. Their study took 10 randomly selected people, and asked them to vacuum in various rooms, while not listening to music, then while listening to music. Their results found that a person listening to music had more ‘sweeps per minute’ while vacuuming (38 without music vs. 127 while listening to electronica). Their test subjects also felt better generally after listening to music than not, after using the vacuum cleaner.

All of this is promotion for Electrolux’s upcoming addition to the UltraSilencer line of vacuum cleaners, which will feature an iPod dock and big speakers for convenient recharging and playback of your iPod and it’s music while doing boring chores like vacuuming.

Despite all the the buzz around the announcement and pictures of the new iPod dock model, there hasn’t been a price or official release date announced yet from Electrolux. Their current UltraSilencer vacuum (sans iPod Dock) currently costs $300 in the United States.