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TheDarkpoint sent us a new device sure to be on all neat-nik geek Christmas lists. It's an automatic vacuum cleaner. Cool little device and the polite gift for those who just aren't quite up to clean-snuff.
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Yeah. It sucks.
Now we just need to modify it to
a) automatically return to a charging station when its batteries get low
b) empty itself when it fills with dirt
That's about the only way I'll ever keep my carpet clean all the time
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Wow... never saw that coming...
Do we really want everything hooked up to the internet? At school, for our senior engineering project many people are doing internet technologies where they connect applicances to the internet. Nothing here is really innovative. It mostly consists of them arranging sensors of some sort on the device and then using a laptop to monitor it. Of course they try to use wireless technology - cell phone modem, or wireless lan to get it to a central computer that is hooked to the internet.
I'm sure someone is going to hook a toilet to the internet sometime soon...then it will run linux, of course, and count how many flushes, and how big the 'load' is....
Heh. The guys I watch Monday Night Football (and pro wrestling with) could certainly benefit from this. I wonder if they'll come up with a unit that'll take out their trash as well.
I met the inventor, James Dyson, earlier this year; he's quite a cult figure in the UK having re-invented the vacumn cleaner (by removing the bag, and using an internal vortex for suction.)
anyhow, he's a major engineering guy, and is trying to spearhead a movement to bring engineering and design back into schools.
he's a top man...check out here
It seems that they have applied for a patent on the spiral as a form that covers a rectangle. (See http://dc06.dyson.com/solution2.htm.
Sad.
Does anybody know what comouters and OS it uses? :-9
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Will it pick up my computer cables off the floor and vacuum under them? ...or is it just going to eat them?
If my room is typical of the geek room, the thing better be all terrain!!
(Side note: would a better geek gift be Lego Mindstorms so we can create our very own intelligent, robotic vacuum cleaner?)
Dana
Scope it out... they have a patent pending on their "spiral cleaning path." Sorry dudes, but I think this is yet another stupid patent idea. Patently obvious and been done before.
Checked out the movie, and sure enough, it uses the general "lawnmower" algorithm (mow the edges, then spiral inwards), with a little collision detection to determine the "edges" of it's space.
In any case, when you vacuum, it's the corners that count... and this thing didn't even get close to those.
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There is probably no doubt that it is "the first ... microprocessor-driven ... motor to be installed in a domestic vacuum cleaner", but does anybody have a clue to how these new "SR" motors are supposed to work? Couldn't find anything on the web site.
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I didn't read everypage of the website because the thing is kinda slow loading, being slashdotted and all, but what about vacuuming under couches and tables and stuff? It seems to me this is limited to wide open relatively uncluttered spaces, besides am I the only one that things us humans need to quit finding ways to sit on our kiesters all day and let machines do the work for us? I mean vacuuming isn't that bad. Unless you have a really big house, but that why you have an upstairs maid and a downstairs maid
Someone else mentioned (the first post actually, imagine that a useful first post) that this was just a rip off of the robotic lawn mower, now there is a good idea, we have 10 acres of land that can be a real pain to mow, by the time you are done it is time to start over again, it would be nice to just have a continous running bot. Of course them cityfied people with a half an acre don't really need it, but considering I've seen some of them with riding lawnmowers they would probably get it anyhow
Oh well, I guess soon we will have devices that breath for us. *sigh*
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If it can pick up microwave red baron pizzas that have been ingrained into the floor, determine which of my multitude of mtn. dew cans are full, empty, or "flat", and figure out which printouts I want to save and which ones I want to discard... I won't just buy it, I'll *marry* it.
I'm cleaning impaired (ok, lazy). While this thing might not be able to do anything for some place that's as authentic of a disaster area as my apartment, at least the beginning steps are being tackled. I may live to have that robotic maid yet!
I think it's one of the holy grails of science.
There was no info afaik on the site regarding the price.
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What a brilliant piece of kit!!!
I was a bit disappointed there was no "science bit", though - technologies used like NN's, GA's etc...
I wonder what sort of capacity this thing has? I mean, my front room looks more like a bombsite most Sunday mornings if I have had people over...
Imagine if this really takes off - and they get the cash to invest more development. A cross between an AIBO and a vacuum cleaner!!! Way to go! Moving further down the line - it could "home in" on it's docking station. Add a shampooing module - it totally cleans as it goes...
Incidentally, Dyson use a really smart method of cleaning - some sort of vortex anomaly actually sweeps the dust up. So you have no bag to fill up - the sucking force is maintained at a uniform level no matter how full it is... plus I think it's waterproof... Handy for all those red wine spills!
IIRC, Dyson is one of those eccentric garden-shed type inventors who made some cash with the wheelbarrow with a ball for a wheel, and then went on to make the vacuum. Warms the cockles of my heart to see the nerd mantle being taken up where Sir Clive Sinclair left off...
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Let's see... expensive and marginally functional robotic vacuum system versus Luddite-proof central vacuum system, used in houses for 30+ years. Now, an automated whole-house cleaning system! That would be something interesting! Wait, no, they already did that... it's called maid service. Sigh. Nice ideas, but not really all that useful.
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I mean... if you don't have carpet, will this thing just blow hot air?
Seriously, I'm not _this_ lazy. I can get up and vacuum myself.
I saw a similar device demonstrated on Japanese TV the other day, except that it could automatically return to its charging station when it was finished vacuuming.
How about a solar lawn mower instead? I saw one of these in action a couple of years ago. They're pretty cool, they use buried wire to mark the border of the yard, and they just roam freely, constantly cutting grass. And they set off an alarm if someone tries to haul it away without punching in a password.
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This is just a whole site of silly patent applications.
Arrrrrgh! (I still want one, though :-))
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Well, so much for my plan of building an automatic vaccum cleaner out of lego mindstorms.
I guess I'll just have to move on to building that automatic lawnmower....
-Denor
At the risk of starting (or contributing to) an OT flamewar...
The use of Xmas in this context is a nice shorthand for "in the spirit of giving and sharing that is common to many faiths at this time of year". My wife got into a painful discussion of this sort a few days ago at work. She and I are of, shall we say, a religious belief that isn't mainstream. Yet we celebrate Christmas, because we have friends and family who do, and we enjoy giving them presents and being part of their celebrations. Our religion celebrates Yule. The presents we happen to give each other are Yule presents, but they're part of our "Christmas shopping". Not holiday shopping, as most of it is for people who celebrate Christmas, and "holiday shopping" smacks way too much of political correctness for our tastes.
The aforementioned painful discussion was with a cow-orker who doesn't think that someone of alternative beliefs should celebrate Christmas. And more's the pity. Such thought hides the true message of this season, which is that it's time for friends and family to get together and give gifts, most importantly those gifts which can't be packaged in a cardboard box with wrapping paper.
So don't get bent out of shape over the use of "Christmas". If the sacred holiday of Christmas isn't part of your belief system, then insert whatever celebration is appropriate for you. (Especially for those of you who don't get a day off on or around 25 Dec., and therefore don't like thinking of it as "the holiday season".)
We can believe in you for 3 minutes, but beyond that, even the King of All Cosmos can't be expected to wait.
The scene... I have left for vacation. I set up crontab entries in a control computer to activate the robot periodically while I'm gone. Little did I know, I had left computer parts scattered around on the floor. Come on guys. Sounds like this item would be a good idea in theory for a geek present. However, considering how many geeks (myself included) have a habit of leaving computers in various states of disassembley all over the place, somehow I doubt it would be a good idea to turn a non-intelligent vacuuming robot loose in a geek's room.
The aforementioned painful discussion was with a cow-orker
I don't mean to bash on anyone else's religion, even though mine is the Right One, but yours is out there. Cow-orking is just plain wrong. Never ork the cow.
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does anybody have a clue to how these new "SR" motors are supposed to work?
SR Motor = Switched Reluctance motor
Let's see here..
Quick search found this site:
http://www.vtt.fi/aut/kau/results/srm/
There's even a few GIF animations to show how it works.
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Can't you respondents say anything nice about anything? Ya put it on the floor, push "go", and it cleans your floor! (ok, not the pizza boxes & Mt. Dew cans.) It's a applied technology robot, available off-the-shelf now, and does a job that we've been talking about doing for ages. That's cool! You KNOW you want one.
...any eletric lawnmower could ever be. We had two of them outside in Summer an we had that little cave that we just placed everywhere we thought the grass got too high. They dont make no noise, dont need anymore food than your grass, and cut it incredibly the right size. Its amazing, but finally one of them died on cancer and the other one was killed by a fox. Hmmm...I wonder if a sheep could make a better job?
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It's great that they have a vacuum that'll clean your floors, but you still have to empty the damn bag out!
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He wants you to get him.
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I own a Dyson vacuum cleaner (DC03) and it does a wonderful job.
Dyson has really shaken up the UK manufacturing establishment; and done it in a very engineering-oriented way. All credit to him.
Its easy to get carried away when we hear about so many really stupid patents, but Dyson risked an awful lot to build his company; it got its start from his exploitation of the Dual Cyclone technique.
Perhaps we should make a distinction between software patents (stupid), biotech (dangerous) and the more traditional physical invention types that have (generally) served us very well.
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You're a good person, AugstWest. Sharp eye, quick wit, disdain for cow-orking. Orking is generally a bad idea (except for ducks of course, they really don't seem to care).
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Maybe attach the mindstorms controller to press the controls? Then a cron job to have it come out once a week? Jetson's here we come!
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It has nothing to do with Christianity.
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Why does the thought of my vacuum cleaner feeling "distressed or threatened" amuse me?
Is not! Very slow, but not /.ed...
Apathy -- The state of numbness of the mind. When you are apathic, you can think.
So don't get bent out of shape over the use of "Christmas". If the sacred holiday of Christmas isn't part of your belief system, then insert whatever celebration is appropriate for you. (Especially for those of you who don't get a day off on or around 25 Dec., and therefore don't like thinking of it as "the holiday season".)
Perhaps just treat the Winter Solstice as the main holiday and let the various religions refer to it by their own names? You don't need a religion to get into the spirit of giving and the like. And besides, Christmas is a direct descendant of the old pagan celebrations for the Winter Solstice, as when they were (forcerfully) converted they didn't want to give up their celebration around that time of the year, so the supposed birthdate of the god Mithra was commandeered to celebrate as the birthday of Jesus.
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It would stick out like a sore thumb in my turn-of-the-century house. Lotsa wood and a roaming yellow/grey plastic thing.
These things seem about perfect for commercial cleaning applications.(No steps, no stairs, vast open areas) Instead of paying three guys minimum wage and getting spotty results, buy four of these things. Even if they are US $4000, you'd make back your initial investment in five months!!
I wonder if they'd take care of the staple collection I have under my desk?
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Amen.
Possibly worse is the fact that on the same page they say they've got a patent pending on the idea of a light which changes color to indicate the robot's operating mode.
Maybe this is only ludicrous to me because I've dabbled in robotics, but think about it... You have software which runs in one of a few modes and runs on a machine with no output. So, you hook up a mode indicator. It's for debugging, not for indicating any sort of emotion. Come on - navigating around a chair is a mood?
I figure it started out as a debugging tool and some marketing moron thought it was cool... "No, no... not a mode indicator... a MOOD indicator!"
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They work not by the traditional method of producing an electromagnetic force by passing electrons through a coiled wire, but by the revolutionary technology of harnesing non-motile electrons, or NMEs, which are lying dormant in the wire.
This produces a much longer time-to-failiure because there are no motive parts to get in the way of the motor. Nearly 0 friction = nearly 0 wear & tear.
The lower carbon emissions claim is dubious--suffice to say critics of SR studies reveal that it's similar to the early 90s claim that oatmeal lowers your cholesterol, but debunkers showed that their studies relied on you eating oatmeal and not egg yolks for breakfast.
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OK let's try that again....
hmmm, isn't this the predecessor to the novel "The Doorway into Summer" by Robert A. Heinlen...
What's next... cryo-engineering so we can all sleep to the year 2003?... oh yeah he wrote that a long time ago, the protagonist slept from 1973 to 2003, after creating "household hannah" (I forgot the real name) an automated vacuum cleaner/housemaid, then went into suspended animation to come back in the future to harass some shady business partners
oh well, moderate this one down to oblivion, for it IS kinda offtopic.. sorry folks
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I have helped several electronic startups get there products going. The fact that the Dyson product doesn't look like a prototype is evidence of a great deal of risk and effort, and I cannot help but admire someone with the determination to see it through.
I also agree that for the standard Geek-Lair, it's not yet a useful tool, but these things have to startup and improve. Next year's model will be smarter and more adept. The first version of Linux was not generally useful either. Just damned cool.
Yeah, like those £300 `personal appliances` or whatever they`re called, like the palm pilot etc, which have about the same level of functionality as a pen and paper (£0.50), only with the ever-exciting risk of losing all your phone numbers and schedules when you drop it/battery runs out etc....never understood that. Am i
missing something?
Yes, convenience and efficiency.
You need a lot of pens and paper to hold the amount of information I keep in my Palm Pilot. I keep simple, Excel compatible spreadsheets in mine. This allows me to consolidate a myriad of paper books. I can keep my phonebook, checkbook, notes, memos, novels, calculators, conversion tables, and alarm clocks in a box that is about the size of a stack of 3" by 5" cards.
I can also keep all of my passwords encrypted. Try doing that with a dead tree notepad.
Ever read Slashdot while riding a car or a bus? I have thanks to AvantGo.
I dropped and broke my Palm III a week after I got it. I didn't lose a single phone number or appointment because it syncs with my computer every night.
I originally bought my Palm III for $254.00 American. I recently upgraded to a Visor Deluxe for about the same price. I'm not up on the current exchange rates but I think that's about £170. This is considerably less than what you think they cost and there are cheaper models available. As far as I'm concerned, they are worth every penny.
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Actualy Chistmas as we know it is the result of the Roman empire's domination of pagan europe. The winter solstace celebration ( Yule ) was a long standing tradition from at least the time farming emurged as a human occupation. Most religions apart form the minority of people who follow a path with a single deity ( yes - monotheism is a minority, the majority of the worlds population follows some form of polytheism ) they would have had to mark the importand times of the year. The Romans were quite fond of mixing local and empire wide traditions. It was a way to subdu the local populations and apease them. Easter is also a combination of Christian dogma overlaying the traditional spring celebration of Oeaster ( various spellings - spoken history languages and all that ).
Anyhow - this has scant to do with the little robot save it would make for a cool Yule party conversation gimic as the party goes on.
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My dad, meanwhile, had been born jewish (in germany, raised from the age of 13 in a jewish orphanage here in San Francisco) but agreed to let the kids be raised catholic (etc.) and to go to mass. He slept; we nudged him when he started to snore too loudly. Now, he is in a nursing home, the Jewish Home for the Aged. We have to remind him that he's buying chanukkah gifts for the kids, not christmas gifts.
Now I am antagotheistic. (Mostly athiest, but I sincerely hope there is a god so I can beat the living shit out of him.) My wife is more agnostic/athiestic. We mostly celebrate the solstice, but have a christmas tree and give christmas gifts, and so on.) When someone says "Merry Christmas" to us, we say thanks and offer the same to them.
As far as I'm concerned, the christians commandeered the pagan solstice holidays, so there is no reason I can't commandeer christmas for my own use. Turnabout is fair play. Also, I'm far too lazy to explain to people that I don't believe in Christ, so I don't celebrate christmas, etc. That can also lead to having to sit through attempts at being converted, etc. Better just to say Merry Christmas and know in your mind that you really mean May the coming seasons bring you much happiness.
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I'm in agreement that this thing isn't going to do well in a typical geek room; even if it can successfully navigate obstacles, that'd leave about %0.2 of my workroom's floorspace sparkling. The rest is covered with parts, printouts, and assorted spelkus.
However, it'd be ideal for the living room.
Curiouser and curiouser...
hehe... the thought of putting it in an enclosed circle and watching it go round and round or simply blinking the "Im in trouble, a kitty is tring to eat me!" LED simply makes me laugh...
BTW - Everyone got the video, it's funny as hell (3.5MB though)
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I wanted one then, and I want one now.
If you haven't read the book, I highly recommend it. A little outdated technology-wise, but still an excellent story with good engineering, time travel, and a cat. What more could you ask for?
Stupid people will be persecuted to the fullest extent allowed by law.
While the Evil Capitalists tighten their Iron Grip upon Christmas for their own nefarious purposes, Christmas morning in my pleasantly atheistic household would be that much better with a Dyson DC-06 zipping around the living room perkily dispatching those o-so-Pagan pine needles.
And may the coming seasons bring you much happiness as well. Welcome Yule!
Perhaps I could be conspiroantagotheistic: If there is a God, I'll hold him down while you beat the crap out of him.
Curiouser and curiouser...
She and I are of, shall we say, a religious belief that isn't mainstream. Yet we celebrate Christmas, because we have friends and family who do, and we enjoy giving them presents and being part of their celebrations. Our religion celebrates Yule.
Yer a Wiccan, yippy, just say it, no need to beat around the bush and pretend your ashamed of it... My GF is a Wiccan, I'm a Baptist, point out to your christian Cow-Worker that Christmas was moved to where it is in the calendar precisely to encourage the Pagan populace to celebrate it,and that the Christmas Tree, mistletoe, and Holly are all druidic symbols. Anyone who is worried about celebrating 'Pagan' holidays needs to take a look at some of the bizarre rituals christians have built into their holidays, Easter Eggs (Druidic Fertility ritual), Christmas Trees, all manner of 'Pagan' characteristics.
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(1) How much does it cost?
(2) Does it have the three laws of robotics imprinted into it's logic?
I suggest you go find the most informative post I wrote a bit earlier which explains just how non-christian the holiday really is. Christmas should be for everyone, As far as I know every major religion and most minor ones has a holiday around that time. Christmas is about being good people for once, the way we should be all the time..
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I don't know if any of you have watched the avi, because you're gonna have a nice clean room, well that is only the middle of the room. The thingy stops about 30cm before any object. Well it's a nice try, but don't get rid of your girlfirend just know ...
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AugstWest dun said:
Just how the hell does one ork cows, anyways? I've heard of cow-orkers, but I can't imagine what the hell it is...transforming cattle into big green fellas? Goblinising cattle (in the Shadowrun sense) and if so (in the Shadowrun sense) does this mean Shadowrun wendigos (aka vampy-orks) are really man-eating cattle? Getting a bunch of Da Boyz into ranching? Just how the hell does one ork cows?
I think we should be told. Maybe the Grits Boy knows...I sure as hell don't ;)
Never having orked a cow, but having known more than one werecow,
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Me, I'm a Zen-Pagan-Taoist-Athiest-Discordian. I'll be visiting my parental units for "Christmas" on the 25th and have my friends from the Circle of Laughing Thunder over for a Yule celebration on the 26th. (That turned out to be the most convenient day for everyone, even though the Solstice and a full moon fall on the 22nd.)
We're completely off-topic, so if anyone want to discuss further e-mail me. (Remove "spambefuddler-" from the address above.) Happy (insert-holiday-here)!
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Every one here is wrong about what Christmas.
Christmas is really the brain child of a clever Marketing Strategist named Chris Tmas (pronounced Ta-miss).
His idea involved marketing one individual toy each year so much that it would cause every child to want that toy every winter.
Chris is very vain, so when it was asked of him what should they call the day that kids should get these toys, he said let's call it Christmas Day.
He then had another idea, to lower the ratio of toys to kids so that parents would have to strugle and fight other parents in order to get their kids the toys. He filmed some of these parents fighting, and that's how professional wrestling came to be.
Remember Cabbage Patch kids! Again Chris' idea.
Merry Chris Tmas!
Every one here is wrong about what Christmas. Christmas is really the brain child of a clever Marketing Strategist named Chris Tmas (pronounced Ta-miss). His idea involved marketing one individual toy each year so much that it would cause every child to want that toy every winter. Chris is very vain, so when it was asked of him what should they call the day that kids should get these toys, he said let's call it Christmas Day. He then had another idea, to lower the ratio of toys to kids so that parents would have to strugle and fight other parents in order to get their kids the toys. He filmed some of these parents fighting, and that's how professional wrestling came to be. Remember Cabbage Patch kids! Again Chris' idea. Merry Chris Tmas!
Heh
Seldom attraction has to do with "skills".
After a few beers and prompt purchase of a hotel room is when "skills" need apply.
I just keep cramming ice cold big sticks down my girlfriend's throat every couple of evenings at about 3am... She's starting to get it now.
Is it just me or are big sticks smaller these days? Oh boy that sounded awful.
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Aha, a good ol' Google search returned their link: http://www3.electrolux.se/robot/. Apparently, it goes over cables without any trouble. That's impressive.
For other robot vacuums, here's a short list:
I want that Electrolux one, though.
I haven't seen the Dyson one from the article. The site appears to be down hard.
ouch... yeah, ho ho ho, _would_ make a lot more sense if it had to do anything with referace to prostitution. just a thought...
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(1) Probably Too Much.
(2) Will I die through the action or inaction of a vacuum cleaner? I could either be smothered by dust puppies, or... eeew. The alternative is too horrible to contemplate.
Here's a link to a similar concept submitted to a design magazine in November. Due to poor frame html, the border isn't included.
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Now you're just discriminating against all us people who happen to live south of the equator.
At least the ones typically used in vacuum cleaners do. Series motors start fast and spin fast.
And they probly mean ozone, not carbon.
Both. Brush/commutator motors gradually grind up the graphite brushes. The motor is in the exhaust air path (to cool it while keeping dirt out of it), so the graphite dust tends to be blown out into the room unless caught with an additional filter.
There's not enough to re-dirty your rugs. But graphite dust accumulates in lungs and is bad for them.
It's a very small amount of the dirt your lungs are exposed to. But why let them be exposed to any extra crud at all, now that hall-effect sensors are available to replace brushes? It's a nice selling point.
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P.S. The real question is, how can you know I am really a woman? :)
That's easy. You seem to care about women (smart ones anyway). If you were a man, all you would care about is getting one of those robot vacuum cleaners that gives head.
Besides, you say things like:
Robotics cannot make a man feels super smart or super capable. Only a dumb woman can.
Real men already feel super smart and super capable all the time (they also feel super hot-looking, and they know they're best driver in the world). They don't need robots or dumb women to make them feel that way.
Saturnalia? What about Yule? Not everyone here is Greco-Pagan ;)
It is more productive to voice thoughtful opinions (reply) than to judge (moderate) others.
/. effect strikes again. Looks like an NT web server so shat can you expect?
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The website doesn't seem to mention a price. Anyone in the UK know the going rate?
I want the pet avoidance feature to have programable agressiveness. I need something to terrorize my cats while I'm gone.
I also want to know if it comes with a cow catcher feature so it can collect the legos as it goes (no, not from it's predecessor, but the lego mindfield most parents are familiar with)
I think it would be easy enough to modify it into a Van de Graf generator to charge the outer shell. That would solve the external harassment issues 8^)
My housemate bought a dyson because he figures that if it was more fun to do then the house might be cleaner.
Worked for about a week!
You can already buy an autmatic lawnmower. Build a mouse trap out of legos or something...