iRobot CEO Colin Angle has filed a plan allowing him to sell up to 187,000 shares in the coming year, or 9.6% of his overall stake. (Angle, Chairwoman Helen Greiner and co-founder Rodney Brooks had suspended share sales last year when the stock was in the lower teens). Tags: iRobot
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Consumer Reports, the nation’s leading consumer magazine, reviewed in its May 2008 issue two robotic lawnmowers, the Robomower RL1000 from Friendly Robotics and the LawnBott LB3200 Evolution and didn’t like either of them. The magazine judged the LawnBott “Not Acceptable” because of what it judged to be a safety hazard. The magazine said the blades continued to turn until the mower was lifted to a 45 degree angle, and then took five seconds to stop — plenty of time for injury. The RL1000 too
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I don’t know what it is about me and appliances. Christie loves shoes and make-up. Kim loves shoes and sports cars. Me? The washer-dryer big enough to clean dog beds. And (non-pet related), my espresso machine that’s more fun that most of the cars I’ve owned. Best 50th birthday gift ever. But I get most excited about seeing pet hair sucked away by vacuum cleaners. Waaaaa-hoooooo. Hot on the heels of my getting the handheld Dyson D16 to review — great little sucker! — I decided to follow up o
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The Long Blondes came together through a series of chance encounters. Kate (lips), Dorian (licks), Reenie (hips), Screech (sticks) and Emma (high kicks) bumped into each other at public library counters, charity shop sale rails and the dancefloors of DIY club nights. It was deliciously inevitable that this lot would get together and form a band. The Long Blondes are the part of the next chapter of Sheffields idiosyncratic musical heritage: the suburban disco fantasies of the Human League, the op
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Each year, communicating through text messages continues to grow and has now turned into an extremely popular communication medium. Millions upon millions of text messages are sent every single month and carriers only anticipate that the number of messages sent by their subscribers will continue to grow. Amazon knows this and obviously sees a tremendous value in it because they have just launched a new service called Amazon TextBuyIt. TextBuyIt is a brand new service that will give shoppers th
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When the Red Sox signed JD Drew to a 5-year contract worth $70 million, the reaction among baseball insiders and fans was almost universal. This is a marriage of the worst possible kind. Take a blue collar city like Boston, where the fans are extremely passionate and demanding of the players, and add JD Drew, who had the reputation of being lackadaisical and indifferent, and this is, shall we say, a disaster waiting to happen. Drew did not squash those fears in 2007. Drew hit .270 (OBP of .373)
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This morning I awoke with thoughts bouncing around in my head like a litter of rambunctious puppies: Don’t forget to wrap me’s birthday present. Here’s a column you could add to your spreadsheet. Hey, don’t forget to run the Roomba in the studio when you get up! Ask designer about the band logo and order screen-printed blank CDs. 8:15 status meeting tomorrow, don’t oversleep… How does the second verse of “Possum Kingdom” go? I wonder which cat is down by my feet? It’s hot in here. Hmm, I’m re
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