A clean home is a happy home, but your feng shei still won’t be right if all your appliances are eyesores. So if you’re a person of taste and in the market for a vacuum, you should consider the Vorwerk Kobold handheld vacuum cleaner, which marries modern design with househould appliances. It’s powered by a rechargeable battery, which should offer 20 minutes of vaccuming suckage–more than enough to clean your couch or car. It has two settings, and a illuminated light that tells you how much more sucking you can do before you have to return the vacuum to its cradle. You’ll have to fork over $170 for the whole package with accessories, but look at it this way: you’re getting both a functional vacuum and a German design tour de force all in one. [Vorwerk]