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.
Sir James Dyson, inventor of perhaps the most recognisable consumer vacuum on the market today, is completely comfortable with failure. He’s good at it—failure I mean—but most great inventors are.
This is an odd convergence of ingenuity and idiocy: a man tried to clean out (tee hee) the coin coffers of an apartment laundry room with a backpack-mounted vacuum cleaner. He netted $US20! And was then arrested.
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.
A woman in Green Bay, Wisconsin, was opening her new Christmas present from her kids – a vacuum cleaner! – when she discovered more than four pounds of cocaine and crystal meth inside. Now that’s what I call a bargain!
Every dog I’ve ever known has been either scared or “overly excited” by the resident vacuum cleaner. That’s why Dyson’s decision to introduce a dog brush vacuum attachment seemed so strange. But after using the Dyson Groom for a couple of weeks on my Golden Retriever, Simba, I have to say that it works brilliantly – within reason.
