Chances are great that as a kid, if you are of a certain era, your family had an original Black & Decker Dustbuster™. A near-perfect example of 70's industrial design, the original device invented the category of battery-powered, handheld vacuums. First released in 1979, a million of them were sold in the first year alone.Somehow, we've been living without a cordless vacuum recently though. Our old truck had only mat floors so a once-in-a-while sweeping did the trick. Now, however, I want to be able to suck up pebbles caught in our EVs carpeted floors. One may come in handy for cleaning under the sofa cushions and around the apartment too. At Walmart today, I picked up one that doesn't have the Black & Decker name. Oh well, I had more choices than when the original Dustbuster premiered 40 years ago!