We just did our Father's Day gift guide, and as usual, it's heavy on the fun and the frivolous- and why not, gifts should be fun, right? However, when I was doing interviews about Mother's Day gifts a month ago, I never failed to mention the Dyson Slim vacuum, the newest model from Dyson which features the same "never loses suction" power, but at an ultra-light 15 lbs. I blabbed on and on about how amazing it was, how it steers like a Porsche (like I've ever driven one), how it sucks up weeks (or years even) of dog hair so deeply embedded that you discover for the first time you don't actually have a shag carpet. It also looks about as cool as it's possible for a vacuum to look. Since I have a small apartment, it unfortunately has to sit in my living room, and people, while I'm sure they're sniggering on the inside about why I don't have the manners to put it away (no closet space!), always comment on how it looks like something Apple would have made- clean and spare, but kind of high-tech and impressive all the same.