Released: June 16, 2012

Five products that don’t measure up to their model names

Source: Mary H.J. Farrell, Consumer Reports

Based on their monikers, a "chill" air conditioner or "pet" vacuum may seem like just the thing to cool your home or tackle that pesky dog hair. And you'd think that a string trimmer called "grasshog" would be a champ at chomping through the weeds. But when Consumer Reports put these products through their paces they didn't live up to their names.

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