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Roomba Celebrates 10 Years of Cleaning Up After You

Posted by samzenpus on from the most-of-the-world-is-carpeted-and-one-day-we-will-do-the-cleaning dept.

SkinnyGuy writes "Roomba, the world’s first multi-million unit-selling home-helper robot, turns 10 today. iRobot has cooked up a self-congratulatory infographic filled with a collection of interesting and occasionally bizarre facts to mark the occasion. Did you know that dogs, cats and babies have ridden iRobot's iconic home cleaning robot since it was introduced exactly a decade ago?"

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  1. Really pleased with it by Neil_Brown · · Score: 3, Informative
    Sure, it can't do the stairs, but my second/third/whatever hand Roomba (530, I think), £100 from eBay, is great — press the button, off it goes, and does a more than merely passable job of the downstairs. I would not pay full price for one, but, for the money I spent, I'm more than happy with the product.

    It didn't immediately decrease the time spent on vacuuming, though — I'd waste the time previously spent pushing a vacuum around just watching it do its thing. Now, at least, I can just let it run, but I do get a feeling of "wow, that's rather cool" each time I run it...

    And designed to be user-repaired, or at least parts replaced, which is always a bonus.

  2. Re:Waaay to much money for those things by DrXym · · Score: 3, Informative
    You have a kirby because you were suckered into buying an overpriced vacuum cleaner from a company which specialises in high pressure sales tactics and borderline illegal activity.

    Perhaps there really is some difference in the quality of vacuum cleaning from a Kirby but I suspect most people will comfort themselves with buying which costs 1/5th the price which is almost as good and weighs half as much. And buying it without some a salesman refusing to leave their house wearing them down for hours until they buy the thing.