This $150 blasting system blows, sweeps, and reaches everywhere your vacuum wont
TL;DR: The Shark BlastBoss packs three attachments — a precision nozzle, extension wand, and BlastBroom into one cordless tool with adjustable speeds up to 190 miles per hour, letting it handle everything from delicate indoor dusting to heavier outdoor debris cleanup. It's $149.99 right now at Amazon.
Cleaning has a way of turning into a multi-tool operation — a vacuum for the carpet, a duster for the electronics, a blower for outside, and you're still missing whatever's stuck behind the fridge. Shark's BlastBoss is built to collapse all of that into one cordless device, and the deeper you get into what it does, the more it feels like someone finally solved the multi-tool problem.
The headline feature here is the adjustable airflow, ranging from 0 to 190 miles per hour, controlled via a multi-speed trigger. That range matters more than it sounds — dusting a keyboard needs a light touch, while blasting leaves off a patio needs real force. BlastBoss moves between the two without needing a separate device for each job.
Clears a patio faster than you'd think
Mashable's Leah Stodart put the BlastBoss to the test on a porch and patio, using it to clear spiderwebs, blow leaves and clippings off cushions, and sweep a 15-foot patio in what she described as just a couple of minutes — notably faster than doing the same job with a regular broom. With the BlastBroom attachment on, she said it's "a bad day to be a pile of leaves in the yard."
Getting into the spots you usually ignore
This might be the smartest part of the whole concept: instead of sucking debris up like a vacuum, it blasts air into tight, awkward spots such as under appliances, between electronics, and deep corners, to surface whatever's hiding, rather than requiring you to physically maneuver a vacuum head into a space it was never built to reach.
It comes with a precision nozzle for detail work, an extension wand for extra reach, and the BlastBroom attachment, which converts the blower into a sweeping tool — letting you loosen, lift, and sweep debris in one motion instead of blasting it around and chasing it down separately. Among the three, it can handle everything from fine-detail work to larger cleanup jobs without switching tools.
Since it's cordless, Shark built the trigger to be responsive rather than constantly running, conserving power between uses. Indoor mode is rated for up to 49 minutes of runtime, while the more power-hungry outdoor blast mode is rated for up to 7 minutes — a reasonable trade-off given how much more force that setting delivers.
In the Mashable review, Stodart's main critiques were that outdoor and boost modes can scatter debris rather than contain it, and that the boost mode gets noticeably loud. Even with those caveats, she still called it a Mashable Choice pick, saying it's worth the $149.99, given how many different situations it's useful in.
Your future clean home is one click away — grab the Shark BlastBoss at Amazon for $149.99.
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