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Super Mario and Zelda Roombas: Beware the Goomba Roomba
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These custom Super Mario and Zelda… themed Roomba covers are awesome and adorable. It’s like the games coming alive in your living room, while your place is simultaneously getting cleaned. How cool is that? |
February 26th, 2012
Robot Vacuum Alarm Clock Pulls Your Blankets off to Wake You, Poops Cubes
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Let’s merge the alarm clock and a Roomba so we can have one less gadget to clutter the home. That’s Seoul-based designer Jeongmi Lee’s thinking here. He designed a domestic robot that yanks your blanket off the bed in the morning to wake you.… |
January 5th, 2012
Hull Bug: An Underwater Roomba for Barnacles
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Apparently, barnacles are a big problem for ships, which is why the Navy deployed their own version of an underwater Roomba to take care of the hulls of their ships. The Hull Bug is a robotic vacuum especially made for taking care of this problem.… |
October 11th, 2011
Roomba Vacuum Controlled By Microsoft Kinect
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We can all agree that vacuuming sucks. It’s no fun to push that thing around the house sucking up all the debris and dirt that you and your family schleps inside. I have always thought that the inventor the Roomba should have been nominated for a Nobel Prize of some… |
February 17th, 2011
Roombas Only Clean Houses to Support Their Sumo Wrestling Careers
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That’s right, by day Roombas are just plain ol’ cleaners, but at night, they sneak off to Lithuania and compete in underground sumo competitions. Okay actually the 2009 Baltic Robot Sumo Cup wasn’t illegal; in fact it was sponsored by major robotics companies like iRobot and ABB. 60 robots participated… |
November 6th, 2009
Roombas Make Dazzling Time-Lapse Light Paintings
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Ever wonder what sort of stuff was running through the electronic brain of your Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner? These wonderful time-lapse photos should give you a pretty good idea of what your Roomba has been up to.… |
September 29th, 2009
Pac-Man Roomba Eats All Your Dirt Pellets
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As devices go, the Roomba is pretty cool on its own. It’s a useful machine and a fun toy all in one, so dressing it up can seem a little gratuitous. But if you turn your Roomba into Pac-Man… well, that’s just awesome. Especially if you use hilarious and appropriate… |
May 13th, 2009
Panasonic Fukitorimushi: the Roomba’S Strange New Robot Floor Cleaner Rival
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Panasonic demoed their own robot floor cleaner at the Tokyo Fiber Senseware exhibition in Milan. It’s called the “fukitorimushi” (wipe-up bug), although if you ask me “Creepy Pillow” would be a better name for it. The high-tech pillow cleaner detects dust and dirt using “blue-white light” and then cleans ‘em… |
May 11th, 2009
