November 17th, 2008
Wow, Kmart will be open from 7AM to 9PM on Thanksgiving Day, which should leave just enough time for employees to make the traditional super late-night Thanksgiving dinner with their families. The store’s ads are spread out across four circulars, so here are some of the better deals from each:
October 8th, 2008
TOKYObay Robots for your office cubicle
Kevlar Pocket Square
Smart Lighting brings it all back to 1999
Guy likes his Roomba, writes a song about it
Chumby now supports Pandora Radio
October 7th, 2008
Mr. Pitiful really likes his Roomba. So much so that he wrote a song about it… and made a music video for it. It’s actually from about a year ago but sometimes songs about robotic vacuum cleaners take time to develop a following.
I haven’t written a song about my Roomba yet, but that’s mostly [...]
September 16th, 2008
iRobot’s Roombas have been enjoying brisk sales in Japan for a few years now. To further boost brand awareness, their sales agent in this country collaborated with Sanrio, the company behind Hello Kitty and other extra-cute comic characters, to produce a Hello Kitty-Roomba.
The Nippon-only device is based on the Roomba 530 model, with the only [...]
September 3rd, 2008
Sorta like this, but not really because iRobot still doesn’t have the proper photos up yet
IRobot has a couple of new Roombas for you pet owners. Two, to be exact. There’s the Pet Series Vacuum Cleaning Robot and the Professional Series Vacuum Cleaning Robot, both of which sound like a real hoot. The Pet Series [...]
August 24th, 2008
This guy is still a virgin.
Have any of you hacked your Roomba?
via Kotaku
August 13th, 2008
It seems to me that Bill Gates can’t be a geek anymore. At a recent Microsoft Asia forum he said that the future will be web-based apps, touch interfaces, and robotic artificial intelligence. This boils down to Bill saying a) Office is going to get eaten b) the iPhone is kicking butt c) the Roomba [...]
August 4th, 2008
Bet you weren’t expecting that headline when you woke up this morning!
Researchers in China has proposed and prototyped a robot that moves along the inside of pipes by its own power, cleaning as it goes. Currently the way major pipes are cleaned or cleared is through pigging, which is basically shooting a big scrubber down [...]
July 15th, 2008
No lights or camera, just (laser) action for new Radiohead video
DeepNote: Sucking all the fun out of Guitar Hero, one perfect note after another
ReadyBot: R2D2 + Rosie from the Jetsons + Roomba
Open parking spaces? Check your smartphone
Bandai adds robotic crabs to its Hex Bug lineup
July 14th, 2008
I’m not quite ready for the responsibility of robot ownership, but for those of you that are ready, the aptly-named ReadyBot might be right up your alley. It’s only in the proof-of-concept stage right now, but according to the ReadyBot team, the robot “picks up toys, uses a special carpet rake tool to scrape up [...]
