<h2 style="margin: 10pt 0in 0pt"><font size="3" color="#990000">Everyday Home Products Getting a High-Tech Upgrade</font></h2><p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: ‘Verdana’,’sans-serif’; letter-spacing: 1pt">(ARA) – You may not have noticed it, because of larger technological breakthroughs such as hybrid cars and solar energy, but a new class of home conveniences is emerging to make day-to-day activities easier and more time efficient. Every day new products are developed and old ones are given high-tech makeovers.</span></p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: ‘Verdana’,’sans-serif’; letter-spacing: 1pt"><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">High-tech has hit cleaning appliances. Consider these new home cleaning products that are faster, easier and more cost effective than the old mop, vacuum and washboard they replace.</p>  <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Luxe Laundries</strong></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">Clothes washing used to be a time-taking task involving hand washing and leaving clothes out for hours to air-dry. In the 1930s, the clothes washer and dryer emerged to save time and effort. Now, in the new millennium<span>  </span>clothes cleaning is becoming even easier. </p>  <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">Sophisticated new washers allow users to select their settings with digital displays that can be programmed for specific washing needs — individual stain removal, fabric choice, dry cleaning, wrinkle removal, and even to run at a certain time of day. Some of these digital devices can even add the detergent and fabric softener for you, eliminating another step in your laundry routine and allowing you to make the most of your time. Check out www.digitaltrends.com for more information and products bringing convenience home for you.</p>  <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Cutting the Cord</strong></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">The way we clean our homes is another part of daily life that has seen significant changes over the years. Portable vacuum cleaners have been around since 1868 and have taken many forms to provide the most efficient cleaning power around, but they are no match for the convenience and power of today’s central vacuum system.</p>  <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">The central vacuum system concept is simple; in-wall tubing leads to inlet valves strategically placed throughout your home. When it’s time to clean, you just plug in a lightweight hose and attachments to get started. You don’t have to carry a heavy standard vacuum unit with a tangle-prone cord up the stairs, down the hall or around the rooms.</p>  <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">Not only are these systems convenient, they also provide a healthy space for you and your family. Central vacuums, often installed in basements or garages, use powerful filtration methods to operate suction and provide thorough whole-house cleaning without recirculating dirt and pollutants throughout a home.<span>  </span>Because of this, central vacuum systems provide proven improved indoor air quality and allergy relief by removing all vacuumed dust mites, pollen dander and other allergens. For more information on central vacuum cleaners, check out www.dirtdevilcentral.com and www.vacuflo.com. </p>  <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><strong>A "Three-Second Clean"</strong></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">Quick cleaning life’s little messes has long been the realm of wasteful paper towels and ineffective hand vacs. Even this part of your routine is getting a revolutionary makeover with a new product called the Vroom. </p>  <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">No longer do you need paper towels, sponges or brooms. Vroom brings powerful built-in vacuum suction to quick-clean jobs in kitchens, bathrooms, laundry rooms, mudrooms and other high traffic areas of a home. Vroom is installed directly into the cabinetry of a room and combines speed, convenient location and the ability to clean up dry spills to give its user a "three-second clean." Check out <a href="http://www.vroomyourroom.com/">www.Vroomyourroom.com</a>  for more information.<span>  </span>Vroom can be used with or without a central vacuum.</p>  <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: ‘Verdana’,’sans-serif’; letter-spacing: 1pt">Courtesy of ARAcontent</span></p></span>