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Posted AT 3:17 AM EDT on 12/05/08

Vacuum cleaner king's got a brand new bag

MARINA STRAUSS

From Monday's Globe and Mail

Sir James Dyson, king of vacuum cleaners, made his fortune selling the machines at three times the price of conventional models.Now the smooth-talking British engineer who flogs his Dyson vacuum cleaners on television has moved to another mundane category: the hand dryer. Just as his vacuum cleaner is the Porsche of floor maintenance, so his Airblade dryer - at $1,600 a pop - is at the top end of hand hygiene. It costs up to eight times more than existing dryers.

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