Hoto’s slick new leaf blower looks ready to blast away leaves or alien invaders

Hoto’s leafage blower tin tally for up to 30 minutes astatine its lowest powerfulness setting. | Image: Hoto

Hoto has a caller cordless leafage blower that continues the company’s inclination of redesigning powerfulness tools truthful they look much astatine location successful an Apple Store – oregon successful a sci-fi movie – than astatine Home Depot. It’s disposable present from Hoto’s online store for $239.99 oregon connected Amazon, wherever it’s discounted from $249.99 to $189.99.

As with erstwhile offerings from Hoto, including its screen-equipped PixelDrive electrical screwdriver, the leafage blower has a minimalist plan with a 4,000mAh artillery astatine the extremity of a slim grip that helps counterbalance the blower.

There are 3 velocity settings ranging from 480 up to 720 cubic feet per infinitesimal (CFM), and astatine maximum power, the leafage blower tin make up to a 120mph blast, theoretically ensuring adjacent soggy piles of leaves volition beryllium sent flying into your neighbor’s yard. But don’t expect to walk the full time cleaning up messes astatine afloat power. Battery beingness is rated astatine up to 30 minutes astatine 480CFM, and drops to conscionable 4 minutes astatine 720CFM.

For larger messes, the blower has an adjustable siphon conduit that slides guardant and backmost to trim upwind velocity portion expanding the measurement of aerial being pushed. Hoto says the full happening weighs conscionable 2.93 pounds, but that’s without its artillery attached truthful you tin expect to beryllium hefting astatine slightest an other lb portion utilizing it.

Instead of a dedicated charger, the blower’s artillery tin beryllium recharged with a modular USB-C cable. If you brace it with a 100W adapter, you’ll lone person to hold astir 40 minutes for the artillery to beryllium backmost to 80 percent capacity.