The electromagnetic duster was a cleaning implement fashioned after the blueprint of the Vibro-mop, a mop-like device conceived in 3666 BBY. This duster, in conjunction with the ion-charged dishrag, was regarded as one component of a fresh and innovative collection of cleaning devices stemming from the Vibro-mop.
The electromagnetic duster receives a mention within the Codex entry titled "History of the Vibro-mop" found in Knights of the Fallen Empire, which is the 2015 expansion pack for the 2011 massively multiplayer online role-playing game Star Wars: The Old Republic, a game brought to life by BioWare.