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Roomba Celebrates 10 Years of Cleaning Up After You
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?"
I grew up watching those little robots zipping around on the bridge of an Imperial star ship, so when I first powered up the thing I was a giddy. I felt like I was one step closer to the idealized future envisioned in my childhood.
Unfortunately, we're a lot closer to that Imperial future in a lot of ways we'd rather not be.
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A little effort with target-training or crate-training can housebreak a dog quickly. If you don't want to expend the effort, then you shouldn't have a dog in the first place.
Domestic dogs are bred to be with us, inside our homes. Don't banish them to live outside.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Several years ago, we demoed a Dyson unit. They look cool and have good marketing, but we were pretty disappointed by its actual performance. It cost more and performed worse than the Hoover vacuum we wound up getting instead. Right now we have a Sebo, and it works great.
As for the Roomba's performance, isn't there an argument that you can have it go out and vacuum every day? If you have it set to do that, then your carpets shouldn't get dirty enough that the lower performance is an issue. It also means that your carpets stay clean the whole week, rather than having one day where they look real nice and six days getting progressively worse (or am I the only one who vacuums only once a week?).
(Dear lord, I can't believe I'm talking about vacuuming right now.)
If you can't convince them, convict them.
That's a vacuum cleaner salesmen's wet dream. There will always be something to pick up. This is why all salesmen will be glad to show off how much their cleaner picked up that your "crappy" cleaner missed. Hell, I'll bet if you vacuumed your carpet after the Dyson or Kirby, you'd still pick up dust.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.