Kimquilts55 said it best! She said that having my girls gone is just a preview for whats to come! I don’t know if I like it. I was putting my daughters computer away this afternoon and I just started crying! I got this very morbid thought and realized that hey, its just a few days, and she will be back! Then I went into my other daughters room because Roomba was stuck, and I just thought to myself how much I miss her. Both of them. But I do look at the bright side and that is that I only had t
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iRobot Roomba 400 Vacuum Cleaning Robot $99 Just like having a maid, the iRobot Roomba 400 Vacuum Cleaning Robot cleans when you don’t want to. Now just $98.99 shipped at Buy.com, it automatically adjusts to different floor surfaces, goes where other vacuums can’t, has a 2.5 charge, and has smart sensor bumpers. Price subject to change. Visit The Bargainist for more.
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Hot laptops equal hot laps, unless you have a stylish laptop stand. Check out unplggd’s Best Of list of laptop stands to help with those extended Apartment Therapy sessions. More from Unplggd after the jump… • Welcome to Anthony who is applying for a spot on unplggd. Read his first post on streaming video to a PS3 here. • Sexy Vacuums? Samsung is here with their Roomba-esque Hauzen VC-RE70V • Tube amplified classic radio, the RP601P • A classic light switch design reincarnated as
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Microfiber towels are listed in Cool Tools as great for drying and travel and camping, but have you used them for everyday cleaning, dusting and wiping? I buy my 16×16-inch towels in bulk. They are basically the same thing as the previously-reviewed MysticMad cleaning towels, but mine are are a heck of lot cheaper. I’ve bought the “high end” ones and low end ones and have noticed virtually no difference in cleaning and polishing power. I’ve washed my current kitchen cleaner over 50 times wit
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Get the iRobot Roomba 400 Vacuum Cleaning Robot for only $99 shipped at Buy.com. The Roomba 400 features automated room vacuuming with up to two and a half hours of vacuuming on a single charge, adaptive technology to focus cleaning on areas found dirty most often, multiple cleaning modes, self-charging base, new larger storage bag for collection during vacuuming, enhanced sensitivity bumpers for identifying room and barrier boundaries, and low clearance for cleaning under many potential obstacl
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I have long felt that there are more important things in this world than housework (my father would attest to this), just as I feel that there are many, many worse things in this world than swears. Maybe these are just excuses for my clutter or potty mouth. Maybe. You won’t find me swearing outright on my blog though, because even though this is my space, it is a public place, and I want you to feel welcome and not offended (and it doesn’t mean I don’t revel in it when YOU swear!). You also g
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One of my new favorite tactics that tech writers use to attract hits and attention is to attack Apple fans. You take a large, diverse group of individuals, group them based upon their preference for a product or company, proceed to lump in together, impugn their opinion, and use their reaction as proof that their opinion isn’t worthwhile to begin with. There are many tribes in the tech world: TiVo lovers, Blackberry addicts, Palm Treo fanatics, and people who exhibit unhealthy affection for
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March 25, 2008 The nuances and imprecise nature of human language pose big challenges for developers looking to advance voice control technology of helper robots, but researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found an effective way to circumvent verbal communication by instructing a robot to fetch items under direction of a laser pointer. The El-E (pronounced like the name Ellie) robot could provide help to users with mobility impairments by moving or retrieving items via its sophi
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