Canned compressed air is an essential tool for neat freaks. It keeps your keyboards clean, blasts dirt from your gaming computer, and clears gunk from those difficult-to-reach areas of gadgets. It’s a priceless tool, an ally, and maybe even a friend.
Although I’m not trying to be frugal, compressed air costs between Rs 7,000 and Rs 12,000, and I already have air at home. Many of it are just floating around, not paying rent. Can’t I just shove that into a can? I believe you can see where this is going.
The XPower A-2S Cyber Duster is here to say hello, dear reader. You need to know how much I adore this little guy. It is my favorite household tool by far. Think of a tiny vacuum cleaner operating backwards. It’s an idea that is pretty simple. It has a brush attachment, two power settings (pretty powerful and very powerful), a shorter nozzle that I can’t find right now but is probably in the tool cabinet where I keep all of my tools. It completely changes the game.
I was already aware of the XPower because I had been researching different keyboard cleaning techniques, including this strange goo. Like many other items in that wonderful store, I had seen it on the shelf at Micro Center and thought, “Wow, that sure does sound really useful. I should get that someday.” This model and a nearly identical model, both of which are similarly priced and both of which are also available on Amazon, are both available at Micro Center, but I chose the latter because it said “cyber” on the box, which made it better. It turned out to be so great that I immediately recommended it to a number of friends, including my friend who works at a cafe and has to constantly clean up coffee grounds. The same company also produces heavier-duty models specifically for pet grooming that are sold on XPower and Amazon, and they come in a variety of vibrant colors.
Compressed air cannot be completely replaced by an electric duster. It’s very challenging to replicate the thin plastic straw that comes with compressed air cans because it’s extremely useful for reaching places that are very difficult to access. However, my duster more than makes up for its lack of accuracy with sheer power and cost savings. It becomes very helpful for making sporadic, quick cleaning sweeps since you don’t have to ration your electricity like you do canned air. This thing is blazingly fast on its highest setting. This bad boy can knock things off your nightstand from a distance.
As the name suggests, it also functions as a duster, which may not seem essential until you consider how much dust is present in the typical home. It’s a lot, and it likes to conceal itself. I am extremely sensitive to poor air quality because of my severe dust allergy. Put on an N95 mask, turn on your air purifier of choice (I have a Coway Mighty because that’s the one everyone decided to buy), and go crazy in your chosen room’s difficult-to-reach areas for a good time. The amount of disgusting gunk you find in your home and how much the general air quality will improve will shock you.
The number of people who do not own an electric duster astounds me on a regular basis, but those who have switched sing the electric duster’s praises. Even though Jess Weatherbed uses a CompuCleaner rather than an XPower, and has noticed an improvement in the general quality of the air. Since at least one Metrovac model also doubles as a vacuum cleaner, someone else online suggested the Metrovac DataVac ESD, a duster designed specifically for data centers. Although I haven’t had a chance to test these models side by side in great detail, I’m willing to bet they blow just as hard.
It’s difficult to overstate how frequently I use this guy, so I apologize if my tone in this post came across as a little cheeky. While working on projects, I constantly reach for it. I used my XPower to blast years of grime out of an old eBay VCR while I was writing this post. Although I feel like a cheesy TV salesman right now, it really is that helpful.
Get a power duster. It will clean your house, your computer, and, by God, it might even clean your soul. (Warning: Every soul is unique.
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