Vacuums are old. Roombas are old. So who cares about a Roomba? When the latter can finally kick the former to the tech trash pile, we care. The dream of having a robot (effectively!) be my personal maid is alive.
Here’s a great way to calm your crying baby and clean your kitchen floor at the same time.
A Japanese programmer hacked a Kinect to enable motion control of a Roomba vacuum cleaner to create a “future vacuum”. The Roomba can be pointed in any direction with a hand motion.
Imagine vacuuming in one area of your living room when realising that you missed a spot near the kitchen. You could walk all the way over there. Or you could launch a little robot to deal with it for you.
