On Today’s Show: Jury Duty, Podsafe Music Return, The French, ipods, crime, oil spills, pools, roomba, robots, apples This show sponsored by GoToMeeting, Try it Free for 45 days Visit http://www.gotomeeting.com/podcast for more details Podsafe Music is Making a Return! 3 Blind Mice: I’m so Tired Band’s Site: www.catsaway.com April 15th is Adopt a Newb Day. The Force Field Podcast: Yet another fine Techpodcast Network Member Real News Bytes The French don’t want your opinion Smart People: Think i
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Just in time for the summer season, iRobot announced today a couple of new additions to their Verro pool cleaning series of robots. The two new robots are the Verro 100 and the Verro 500 models are specifically designed for above ground and in-ground pools respectively. More specifically and according to the company’s Press Release, The new Verro 100 will navigate and clean a flat-bottomed above ground pool of any shape, while vacuuming debris along the way. The new Verro 500 features sturdy ru
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iRobot ConnectR Posted by: hoser in Electronics, Home & Garden, Housewares, Robot Technology The ConnectR enables real-time virtual visits over the Internet. Equipped with high-quality audio and a video camera, the robot is located on-site in the home of the “host” party. Using a computer keyboard, mouse or joystick, the remote (“visiting”) party can drive the robot around and interact with those on-site, virtually participating in activities at home or wherever the device is located (f
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Amazon MP3 has been getting a lot of great reviews for their 100% DRM-free music service that’s been offered since September 2007. They actually have a rather large selection of music, and being able to play it on any of your devices without restrictions is a huge plus. And you don’t pay any more for music from Amazon than you do on iTunes. A few days ago Amazon really delivered a big hit against Apple by launching a Linux version of their MP3 downloader. Apple has neglected the Linux communi
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The newest RockStartUp video is up, and I’m in this one! My nephew Matthew also appears with me in it, but I see Travis edited out the part where I showed embarrassing baby pictures of Matthew to Ted and Ashley. Hmph! You can see how I won a Roomba by bringing 100 canned food items, and how Postie Alli beat me at my own game by bringing over 100 cans of food to her tour stop in Atlanta. (Loved the shot of Ted pushing the stroller - hee hee!) I think Ted met his match when he met little Skylar
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Because I am a dork, and have an unhealthy techno-gadget fetish, I now have two vacuum cleaners battling for dust bunnies and cat hair - an iRobot Roomba 550 and a Dyson DC21 stowaway. In the six years that I have lived in the US, I’ve never owned a vacuum. All the vacuum cleaners I had were hand-me-downs from people returning to their home countries. My experience with them can be summarized as: piece-o’-crap. About 10 days ago I went and got the iRobot Roomba 550, which is currently on sa
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OMGosh! That TBL show is a tear jerker!! No wonder y’all are hooked on it and always bawling! LOL Bernie! No! I kind of wanted Kelly to go, but I felt bad for her. I actually wanted Bernie to end up going home because even I missed his dogs! LOL That vending machine temptation was great! Kind of sad though, that I actually know and have memorized how many calories were in each and every item that came out of that vending machine! So then, I flipped the Tivo back over to live TV and wow! Who kne
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iRobot Looj 130 Gutter Cleaning Robot w/Holster Posted by: hoser in Home & Garden, Robot Technology, Tools & Hardware Cleaning your gutter couldn’t be any easier than this! The iRobotLooj is the tank like that moves in both forward and backward directions and the 3-stage auger spins in both directions. Using the wireless handle/remote, you control the direction of the robot and the 3-stage auger to ensure that Looj covers the length of your gutters and propels debris away from your ho
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By Andrew Liszewski Seeing photos of this pool-friendly cousin of the Roomba in action brings back fond memories of a time when it didn’t snow every other day. But if you’ve got an in-ground pool in the backyard here’s yet another reason to look forward to Summer. Instead of breaking your back scrubbing the pool by hand, just drop the Verro 600 PowerScrub robot in and let it do its thing. It will clean your entire pool from the floor to the waterline (including the steps) in about 60 to 90
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Do You Want ‘Possums with That? Having just returned from two weeks in splendid [self imposed] isolation, I’m tempted to declare that I was on a spiritual retreat, or writing the next Great American Novel. The truth is that a dear friend of mine found herself in the dilemma of her adopted dad about to shuffle off this proverbial mortal coil(e), and her property caretaker unable to delay personal business. I’d planned to write my next blog entry on Eureka at that time. I was instead thrust
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