Toy Fair: Keep your Wasp Factory running with Summit's Bug Vacuum and Habitat

Bug Vacuum's unimaginative name is nonetheless a good one, because it's a suprisingly utilitarian thing. Kids will love it because it sucks up live bugs, cages them, and allows for bug-transfer to a compatible bug habitat that maker Summit also sells.

And adults will love it because "you can just use it to vacuum dead ones off the windowsill," says company CEO Dan Henderson.

How useful it will be to murderous Scottish children seeking to populate their divining machines is another matter: one that will perhaps be solved by the Extreme edition.

[#1 posted by Enochrewt , February 15, 2009 1:17 PM]

So, uhh, does it come with a six foot extender? I can't bring myself to get closer than that to spiders.....

Wanna arm wrestle?

[#2 posted by Maneki Nico , February 15, 2009 3:29 PM]

Ooh, ooh, I *knew* you were making an Iain Banks reference before I even read the link. Nice one, Rob.

[#3 posted by joefru , February 15, 2009 6:02 PM]

News? My son has had one of these for at least two years now. Looks like they tweaked the colors a bit.

[#4 posted by dculberson , February 15, 2009 7:03 PM]

"you can just use it to vacuum dead ones off the windowsill,"

Isn't a regular vacuum cleaner pretty good at that?

[#5 posted by Francesco Fondi , February 16, 2009 12:21 AM]

COOL! Looks like something that could be popular among Japanese kids (live bugs collectiong is a national sport in Japan)!

[#6 posted by Darren Garrison , February 16, 2009 11:22 AM]

Bugs abhor this toy.