The City DC26 is a ‘mini’ vacuum cleaner model, the smallest one till date by any company, to be launched by Dyson – a brand that is associated with the manufacture of products like a wheel- less wheelbarrows and amphibious automobiles.

The company which boasts an over 20 percent share of the US vacuum cleaner market has especially designed the slick new City DC26 to cater to the needs of the people residing in small flats.

Even though the DC26 is so small a vacuum cleaner that it can fit on a piece of A4 paper, Dyson has ensured that the £249.99-priced ‘mini’ machine is packaged with the same ‘punch’ as its bigger counterparts – boasting 13 inner cyclones that use centrifugal force to suck dirt.

Notwithstanding its small size, the 3.25kg DC26 is essentially manufactured with the ‘toughness’ factor in mind. The tests of the device reveal that it can withstand 5,318 drops onto a hard floor and 10,000 beats against a metal wall.

Noting that the DC26 has been ‘created from scratch’, with 275 parts re-engineered and made smaller by the Dyson technicians, the company’s owner James Dyson said: “It took us five years to painstakingly compress and rebuild every single component before we had a machine that was a third smaller than its predecessor, yet could still tackle dirt like bigger machines.”