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Turn Your Roomba Into a Household Google Bot

Posted by timothy on from the check-the-pantry-from-the-store dept.

Wael Chatila writes "By adding an on-board computer and a camera on a Roomba, the Roomba can be used to index your home. As a bonus, you can also control the Roomba across an internet connection, and see the images from the camera — a spybot for you to check on your own home while you are out."

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  1. Google is a cult by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    People are happy to give up their privacy to this massive, deceptive corporation and to think they're safe because it says it will "do no evil" with it. Google is a cult, and I'm happy I have nothing to do with it.

  2. Pics! by Computer_kid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Some screen shots of the OS: http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-03-01/north-korea-cyber-weapon.html?fullstory & http://ashen-rus.livejournal.com/4300.html. I wonder where they get there computers from?

  3. Re:I know how this ends. by mhajicek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My, that was a yummy mango.

  4. Re:Linux? by MrEricSir · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I resent that remark. I *am* a dick smoking faggot queer bitch whore, and I use OS X.

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