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The Master Chief vacuum totally sucks

by Justin McElroy on Jan 22nd 2008 9:30AM

Everybody knows that vacuum designers can draw inspiration from pretty much anywhere. How many times have you passed an odd man or woman staring at some feature of the landscape, lost in their own world and thought "I bet that's a vacuum designer." All the time, right? Well, finally, vacuum designers are turning their keen eye to video games for inspiration with the Samsung Silencio SC9540 which looks, well, a lot like Master Chief's helmet. First soda, now vacuums, is there anything that guy can't do? (Besides, obviously, taking his helmet off.)

Now, we know the fine people of Samsung can't exactly start branding this with a Halo logo, but if we see one ad that tells us it's time to "Finish the fight ... against dust and allergens" we're going to be sorely tempted to finally invest in a vacuum.

[Thanks, eldee]

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Tags: halo, halo-3, master-chief, masterchief, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (37)

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But can the Master Chief Vac take down tough cat hair?

Even the Sarge will agree that Masta'Cat(Master Chief's prized Legendary Helmet wearing, mangy feline)does leave behind unwanted animal dander and waste products... like hairballed up copies of VAMPIRE RAIN. :x

That is a great way to set up the final confrontation between MasterVac and the Triumvirate of Doom (my 3 cats).

*POWERS OF...

...DANDER!
...HAIR!
...CLAWING UP YOUR FURNITURE!

...UNITE!*

I think it looks more like the Doom helmet
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c9/Doom-boxart.jpg/300px-Doom-boxart.jpg

No sorry, It's Halo because that's. um. what's popular? Yea.

"he's taller than I thought"

They say the recon version steam cleans your carpet as well.

Back in MY DAY people would have considered this a TIE Bomber Pilot helmet.

Kids these days listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. With their hippin' and the hoppin' and the bippin' and the boppin', so they don't know what the jazz is all about!

"MASTER CHIEF VACUUM TOTALLY SUCKS"

Not really i think the vaccum looks better and more sophisticated than chief helmet......

Way to suck the fun out of this subject.

I agree. You totally fluffed this one!

If by "sophisticated", you mean "rectangular", then yes.

It appears your pun detector was sucked into a black hole.

You're...killing...my...braincells...

...it's called a pun.

How the hell is this guy getting upvoted? >.

Oh c'mon - nothing wrong with the occassional pun. (I say this only because I made a pun of course.)

A Spartan helmet which would finally fit instead of that cat-sized collectible item from the Halo 3 collector's edition?

Haha, that headline is so punny.

Not.

Well, it's a pretty puny excuse for news.

Besides, whoover hell would want one of those things.

Looks like your typical space marine helmet, to be honest.

I'd wear it.

Ah right, something looks like a helmet and it's now "Halo". Well done. Don't read or watch sci-fi for fear of seeing an episode of Red Dwarf with a Halo helmet.

When you are 10 years old, and not having any lengthy world experience, everything looks like halo... Don't be mean to the kids because they are kids... They'll grow up eventually and realize that multi-million dollar corporations don't give a fuck about some gay ass video game.

looks like an ODST helmet.

Prior art: http://www.gamebump.com/go/bagless_vacuum_looks_haloinspired_as_well_psychosis_imminent

What is this the biggest news story of the year or something. It is on every gadget and game blog. What a load of crap. Someone makes an observation that a vacuum looks like a helmet so it has to be the helmet from Halo, right.

There are slight similarities but it really doesn't look like a master chief helmet at all. It looks to be more automotive inspired than anything else. Unless the designer or team of designers come out and say they used Halo as their inspiration you just have to chalk it up to coincidence. The 3/4 view makes it look more helmet like but the side view shows it to be much longer than a helmet and more automotive inspired.

If I find an object that looks similar to something in Halo does that mean I can have my story plastered all over the internet too.

Chill out and take some Midol.

How can you have this post and not even mention the vacuum that is actually named Halo?

http://www.gethalo.com/

If I didn't know this was a vacuum I would have thought it was a coffee maker.

You know you have been playing way too much Halo when you see Master Chief in a vacuum.

that damn headline pun...

It sucks... but does it blow too?

No way it's Halo helmet. It's definitely Metroid helmet! and soon this post is gonna be halo vs metroid.

"It sucks, and it cuts."
-"Well, it certainly does suck."

Damn, you people act like you never see a dirt bike helmet before!

I'm not so much worried about the (rather vague) Master Chief resemblance as I am the seeming David Lynch reference. Does it come with a filthy, terrifying hobo too or will that have to wait for the Condemned vacuum cleaner?

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