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Baby Goes On A Roomba Joyride

Here’s a great way to calm your crying baby and clean your kitchen floor at the same time.

February 17, 2011
Gadgets

Guide Your Roomba With Your Hands With This Kinect Hack

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.

January 11, 2011
Science

Train/Vacuum Cleaner Hybrid Is More Powerful Than Even The Most Powerful Dyson

Over in India, an ancient train engine has been recycled into a large vacuum cleaner, sucking up garbage as it chugs along the tracks between Kurla and Wadala, and CST and Masjid stations. [Indianrlys via RecycleTimes via Inhabitat]

January 3, 2011
Gadgets

Dyson’s Latest Vacuum Cleaner, The Digital Slim DC35, Is Heaven On A Stick

Lacking I may be in the domesticity gene, I can’t help but want this latest Dyson vacuum cleaner. That’s no surprise, though—I want everything Dyson makes, even this dog-vacuumer. I have a cat.

November 22, 2010

Dog-Shaped Vacuum Is One Of The Least-Silly Ideas From The ’70s

I wish I had some of the foresight of this patent-filer from back in ’73. I wonder if she’s cursing the day her dog-shaped vacuum failed to take off, now Dyson’s launched their dog-grooming vacuum tool?

November 4, 2010
Gadgets

Why Bother Vacuuming The Floors When You Can Just Vacuum The Dog?

So goes the thinking behind Dyson’s Groom tool, which connects to most of their vacuum cleaners and sucks up loose hair and dead skin. I’m guessing it could be used on other animals too – my cat better watch out.

October 27, 2010

These Electrolux Vacuum Cleaners Are Made From Rubbish

Four months after boasting of vacuums made from recycled sea junk, Electrolux now has five colourful cleaners to show off. They’re made from 70 per cent recycled plastics, with each cleaner’s design representing the ocean the rubbish came from.

September 30, 2010

Long Exposure Photo Shows Mint Cleaning Robot Doesn’t Shirk

This is what happens when you let a radioactive snail in at night. Havoc! Luckily, Evolution Robotics’ Mint cleaning robot did a darn good job cleaning up after it, as you can see from a long-exposure photo of its mopping.

September 29, 2010
Gadgets

Kogan’s Home Appliances Now Available

Gizmodo AU

Last month brought word that online retailer Kogan was entering the home appliance space. Today they’ve announced their first products – a bagless vacuum cleaner, automatic espresso machine and a couple of convection microwaves.

September 25, 2010
Gadgets

Vacuum Cleaner Robbers Suck Up $US800,000 From Safeboxes

France really does have the best thieves. This time, a group of bandits known as the “vacuum gang” has gone on a 15-store robbing spree using nothing but a drill and a powerful vacuum cleaner. It’s Mission Impossible meets Martha Stewart.

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