New Delhi, Nov. 9 -- When the British home and lifestyle appliances maker Dyson entered the India market in 2018, and soon became a fixture in executive offices and wealthy households. Its premium positioning worked, overshadowing any engineering gaps its first series of products in India had. The new Dyson V16 Piston Animal has tried to address these points-while amping up the style quotient.

Straight off the bat, the V16 Piston Animal is a partially smart vacuum cleaner. This means that while it has a sensor to detect and show a breakup of the kind of dust particles it collects on the vacuum cleaner's built-in display, the same does not show up in the companion 'MyDyson' app to view later.

While the company says that such feature may ...