Mood: Good, but tired beyond belief Hair: Braided, inwards Eyes: Fabu Listening to: Some commercial or another Today was one of those truly bizarre days that everyone who has dealt with public service has experienced, but only public librarians will ‘get’ in all it’s hallucinogenic permutations. As I’ve told a couple of people, it was all about kids (relatives of staff), dogs, perverts, drunks…and crack(s). I got to hold a toddler, talk seriously with a 4-year-old, coo over a baby, pet a
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How to get a husband to clean up the house: tell hubby he can invite friends over to play cards tonight IF he helps clean. Then, put down roomba in living room as your half of the cleaning. Leave rest to hubby. I am upstairs relaxing in a relatively clean house after a nauseous day and there are enough submariners in my kitchen that we can take over the Torsk and probably get her out to sea.
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You’re just sitting back right now sipping a Guinness, watching the snow fall outside (again!) and your Roomba 580 is hard at work sucking up the dog hair from your orange wall-2-wall shag!    Meanwhile your evil teen punk kid is hangin’ downtown with his no-good friends.  Equally lazy…  “what… me climb up that building to spray graffiti??  Hell no!!”  Thankfully - here comes this contraption - a suction, wall cruising robot, controlled by a remote, spraying on command. Technology is fine, no?
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Recently on Boing Boing Gadgets I popped open the Heineken BeerTender for a look (video review, including drunken hair clipper work, coming shortly), ran an older interview with Gary Gygax who passed away this week (and posted his “Random Harlot Encounter Table”), got the first look at the new “Lego Collector” catalog coming out later this year, asked everyone to help me plan a week of blogging in the woods, saw a man play a Legend of Zelda song on a carrot ocarina, took a peek at iRobot’s robo
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CeBIT ended yesterday, and I can’t say I miss it. Most importantly, the product lines were thin. Secondly, there was a transport strike on the fair’s first day. And, there is, apparently, a shortage of prostitutes in Hannover, a definite problem for the whore-mongering tech press corps. (You know who you are.) The last time it was important enough to attend was several years ago, and I’m not sure we’re ever going to this show again. Back to the products: “iRobot introduces cheap refresh to its
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If you love automating tasks in your house such as cleaning the carpets with a Roomba robot vacuum then this solar powered robot lawn mower is a must. It can cut up to 2300 square meters of grass automatically and be programmed to do that when ever you like. The robot mower uses hybrid power to keep it’s batteries charged. Both electricity from the wall and solar energy from the sun keep the batteries charged each day ready for it’s next run. Each charge will see the robot mower through about 4
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Spending Your Way To Self-Worth Mediapost.com, NY - 22 hours ago … when you have the marvel of modern marketing to help you perceive that you will get laid more if you Axe instead of Arm & Hammer Ultramax Deodorant …

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“Couleur Sur l’Object” Graffiti Robot Turns Vandalism All-Electronic Designer Stefan Rechsteiner has come up with the Couleur sur l’Objet concept as a modern way of applying “urban art” to walls in hard-to-reach places. Equipped with a can of spray paint, the little tyke would be like a badly-behaved roomba with a vacuum-suction mod to keep it in place. With its accompanying design software, you could presumably use to it create large-scale murals on walls that would previously have required
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(Credit: Readybot) Don’t get me wrong: I’m all for domestic robots. I own a Roomba. I professed my admiration for the Robot Chef. But the humanoid dish-washing robot we saw last year creeps me out. (Blame it on watching too much Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.) Fortunately, that …
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While I agree you want your own vacuum for small spills, it would not be up to the fancy one. If the fancy one can be there in 3 minutes, do you even need the small one? 3 minutes, with a 20mph deliverbot just means one unit on call for ever 2-3 square miles (this is the bare minimum, of course, you need more, but it shows what you could get away with.) It saves a lot more than $x/hour to leave a person out of the driver’s seat. To have a driver, you need a truck able to handle a human and the
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