10 Unusual Vacuum Cleaners January 18th, 2010 | Collection of modern vacuums and unusual vacuum cleaner designs that will help you clean your house in style. This cool retro designed vacuum plugs into your computer’s USB port to help you keep your work area dust free. Beautiful handheld vacuum cleaner design by Stefano Giovanonni. This scaled down version of the Zamboni Ice Cleaner is a perfect little companion for your desktop. Re-created as a desk vacuum, Zamboni will help keep your desk clean. This cool gadget is a combination of a simple 800dpi optical mouse and a miniature vacuum cleaner that keeps your desk free of dust. Samsung’s new vacuum features 13 sensors, built in camera, and a new crash avoiding system. It can even vacuum your bed. Miele vacuums break the boundaries between upright and canister, combining the very best of both worlds into one maneuverable design and allowing you to effortlessly move the vacuum in any direction. Electrolux has designed a pair of vacuum shoes that suck up dirt from the floor as you walk from room to room.

Cool vacuum design inspired by the iconic droid from Star Wars. Frisper makes a tiny opening in the bag, removes air and creates an airtight heat seal to protect your food. Ergonomic backpack vacuum moves with you so you don’t have to drag a heavy regular upright vacuum cleaner around your house. Subscribe via Twitter or Email Alarm Clocks, Air Balloons, Aquariums Anti-Smoking Ads, Billboards, Car Ads, 2 Backpacks, Handbags, Shopping Bags, 2 Bathtubs, Towels, Bathroom Gadgets Beds, 2, 3, Benches, 2, 3, 4, Pillows, 2 Bicycles, 2, 3, Bike Accessories, Boats Bottle Openers, Ice Cube Trays, Toasters Bookends, Bookshelves, 2, 3, Stress Balls Birthday Cakes, 2, 3, 4, 5, Candles, 2 Buildings, Bridges, Bus Stops, 2, 3 Business Cards, 2, 3, Calendars, Cameras Camping Tents, Sleeping Bags, Phones Chairs, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Stools, 2, Clocks, 2, 3 Chocolate Gadgets, Christmas Trees, 2 Coffee Mugs, 2, 3, Cookie Cutters

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With glittering navy water backdropped by snow-capped Alpine peaks and bookended by orange groves, the view from Guido Ligorio's apartment couldn't be more spectacular.But the 38-year-old chef has no interest in gazing upon Lake Garda. Instead, the Italian only has eyes for his hoovers.Ligorio, who has spent three decades collecting vintage vacuums, currently has 127 machines squeezed into his one-bedroom home but insists that lack of space won't prevent him from buying more. Passion: 38-year-old chef Guido Ligorio, from Lake Garda, is obsessed with collecting vacuum cleaners Outdoors: Guido even takes his hoovers on jaunts to the lakeside - much to father Leonardo's bafflement 'I have a particular passion for cooking but, you know, my real passion is vacuum cleaners,' he explains. 'I collect everything from the thirties, forties, fifties; whatever is electric is in my collection.'So large has the collection become, Mr Ligorio, who says his love of hoovers began when he was just three years old, is now forced to scramble over vacuum cleaners as he moves from room to room.'You have to slide around things, jump them but I couldn’t stand to have them in a garage or something

'It’s something that I need to see all the time. 'The very first model which started it all is the AEG [hoover],' he reveals. 'This is a German machine, big 70s pea green colour.'This was the one which was used in the apartment block where I used to live when I was a child.  Oh the sound used to be something like "woooo-wooo".  That was the enchanting thing for me.'  But while Mr Ligorio, who is single, adores his machines, others aren't quite so impressed. Among them is his father Leonardo, who admits that he still has no idea why his son is so obsessed with collecting hoovers.'I would like him to be less strange and get a family, like every other normal person,' he complains.  And he's not the only one to find vacuum collecting bizarre. Equally baffled is Barbara Macmillan, the mother of 16-year-old student Scott, who boasts an equally impressive collection of hoovers. Obsessive: Guido has trouble cramming his 127-strong hoover collection into his tiny one bedroom flat Missing out: Guido prefers to contemplate his hoover collection rather than the beautiful Lake Garda

Although Leonardo hopes that his son will eventually give up his bizarre hobby, Barbara, from Texas, says that she will try and support Scott - despite the inconvenience of having a family home crammed with hoovers.'I think Scott’s hobby was so unusual that I had to encourage him,' she explains. 'I don’t think a parent should not support their child when they have a passion about something.'Unlike Mr Ligorio, Scott, who currently owns 330 machines, is trying to make life easier for his mother.'I think this is a little bit of an obsession,' he admits. 'I think I already have enough vacuums.  For each one that comes in I’m trying to get rid of two now.'One man who has no intention of getting rid of his prize collection of cleaning machines is Gareth Sheen, a hoover repair man from Cape Town - and the owner of the largest number of vacuums in South Africa. Hoovers galore: 16-year-old Scott Macmillan has crammed 304 hoovers into his family home in Texas Work and play: Gary Sheen from Cape Town is a hoover repair man and has amassed 204 of the machines

So obsessed is Mr Sheen, he sleeps with a vacuum tucked under one arm, according to wife Joanne, and has named the family dog, Dyson.'I have over 40 Dysons in my collection,' he adds. 'It’s the mechanics behind the vacuum, the way it works, the engineering, that type of thing, that’s why I love the Dysons.'So is their penchant for hoovers harmless or bizarre. The trio, all of whom star in a new National Geographic documentary, say not.'A lady once said to me how strange my collection was,' remembers Mr Sheen, 'and I asked her "what do you collect?" and she said to me she collected stamps, very proudly, and I said to her "so you collect pieces of paper with pictures on them, how strange".'Adds Mr Ligorio: 'I feel that preserving certain machines will be important for the future because I think it doesn’t take long that we will need this kind of stuff in museums to explain the history of industrial design.'Even Leonardo can't argue with that.Clash of the Collectors, tonight at 9.30pm on National Geographic