Phrases I never thought I’d ever utter, volume n: “Silas, stop teasing the robot!”
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My Roomba part ($9 spur gear for the top of the brush motor) came in the mail this week and yesterday I had a chance to put the little guy back together. I carefully reassembled his brush motor, then put the rest of him back together… an overnight on the charger and he’s as good as new! Yay for me!!
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Tax Refunds - A Geek Enabler March 2nd, 2008 by George Starcher Our tax refund came in last week. My wife just loves to do our taxes, have it direct deposit to her checking account and then dole an allowance to me. Of course she almost always uses it to update something on the house. But this time I got to spend a little on something. A nice new Roomba 560 from Linens and Things. Cnet had a good review on the 560 last fall. It has an improved vacuum, traction etc. You can read the review HER
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I first met Whitney Georgia Hess at Digitas about two years ago. We had the “pleasure” of collaborating on one of the most innovative projects I’ve had a chance to play a role in (a prototype for realizing a new way of getting an insurance quote online). Whitney is currently the sole author and curator of a fine up and coming blog called “Pleasure & Pain”. Pleasure & Pain covers the worlds of interaction design, technology and life as viewed by Whitney. She’ll often analyze what ma
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Japan Looks to a Robot Future Auburn Citizen, NY - 41 minutes ago One of the only commercially successful consumer robots so far is made by an American company, iRobot Corp. The Roomba vacuum cleaner robot is …

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