World Wide Vac a digital vacuum cleaner, is a widget that can be connected to your gmail account and used to clean-up your inbox rapidly and selectively.

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World Wide Vac — World’s First “Digital Vacuum Cleaner” Unveiled

The world’s first digital vacuum cleaner, the “World Wide Vac,” was recently unveiled by its developer, Electrolux, via a press release sent to CleanTechnica.

This new “vacuum cleaner” offers a means of getting rid of the “digital dust” on your online home, as the company puts it — thereby reducing server running costs, thusly reducing energy costs and the associated carbon emissions.

What the new World Wide Vac actually is, is a widget that can be connected to your gmail account and used to clean-up your inbox rapidly and selectively. The product was actually developed internally at Electrolux in connection with the development of a new (real-world) analogue vacuum cleaner.

Guess that someone thought that it might be nice to have a similar tool for the online world.

The press release provides more:

…an average e-mail in your inbox equals 4 grams of CO2 during its lifetime, and generally people tend to keep thousands. The size of an average inbox is 8000 emails. (Reducing these thereby reduces these energy/emissions costs.)

Each level of digital cleaning is built on different algorithms, allowing the user to set the cleanup ambition. The S level targets unread social and promotional e-mails. The M level targets social, promotional, unread e-mails older than three years except from those sent from your own account or personal contacts; spam, trash can e-mails and all e-mails in the inbox filtered through a set-up of negative words (eg “offer”, “discount”) saving the ones containing positively relevant words (eg “receipt”, “password”). The L level targets the same e-mails as the M level, plus all e-mails older than three years.

http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/17/world-wide-vac-worlds-first-digital-vacuum-cleaner-unveiled/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IM-cleantechnica+%28CleanTechnica%29