A watering can, hand-held vacuum cleaner and boom box made of clay are decorated with motifs from indigenous pottery.

At first glance, Digital Innovations' Skipdoctor looks like a hand-held vacuum cleaner, or perhaps an industrial-size tape measure.

Astronaut Image Gallery How are an astronaut and a hand-held vacuum related?

Sweep up large populations with a hand-held vacuum and dump in soapy water.

Rechargeables have been available for decades, but aside from their use in small appliances like hand-held vacuums and tools, they have yet to catch on with the public.

Use jets of water (in the shower) or a hand-held vacuum on low power (freeze the container overnight to kill its contents).

Then she scurried about, picking up the larger pieces of glass gingerly and using a hand-held vacuum to clean up the rest.

In the vastness of the sound, the effort seemed like taking a hand-held vacuum cleaner to a football field.

"We've got a good chance of pulling this whole thing off," Schwab said loudly into the phone as his hand-held vacuum droned on.

The law also requires rechargeable consumer products like hand-held vacuums to be redesigned by July 1, 1993, to allow for battery removal.