I bought a refurbished scooba for about $150. I know I know, it’s not as environmentally friendly as me actually cleaning my own home, but i just don’t bother to, and if you think about it i’m probably keeping a potential pandemic at bay with this thing. Plus it leaves me more time to read this nonsense you post. I don’t want to argue about the electricity it uses, nor any other “you wasted your money” stuff, i just wanted to say that i love it. It uses fuzzy-logic, and i find myself watchin
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Thenerds.net, via Amazon, has a sweet deal on the iRobot Roomba 400 Vacuum Cleaning Robot. It’s $113 + $10 S&H = $123 shipped! Features: Robot vacuum that cleans on its own Finished in red, self-adjusting cleaning head, easy to empty bay Buy it: iRobot Roomba 400 Vacuum Cleaning Robot - $123
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MeritLine.com has the refurbished iRobot Roomba 415 Robotic Vacuum Cleaner for $129 - coupon code IROBOT10OFF [Exp 10/9] = $119 with free shipping. Includes two Virtual Walls that tell Roomba where to clean by restricting off-limit areas. [BizRate]
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Sony has announced its new Sony Home Share (VGF-HS1E) storage device. Sure, it bears a striking resemblance to the Roomba, but this is no vaccuum…  This 1 terabyte drive is designed to be a “huge central repository” for all your families photos, videos and music– and can be used to store as well as simply back-up your families data. Data can be accessed from computers in your home network, as well as remotely through the internet. The device is expected to go on sale in Europe later this year
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Many kinds of vacuum cleaners come out with a multiplicity of styles and shapes. This surely gives the best option in cleaning your house or business establishment. These days, there are plentiful kinds of vacuum cleaners to choose from. So it is better for consumers to familiarize themselves with various types of cleaners and get ample information about these products prior to making a purchase. Some of the types of vacuum cleaners include upright vacuum cleaners, stick vacuums, canister vacu
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You can easily get 20% off pretty much anything you buy if it’s part of Microsoft’s buyback program. Here’s how you do it.  Goto Live.com and search for anything you want to buy.  Sometimes, you will have to enter the competitors product to get the discount.  (As you can see above, you get 20% off for HP laptops by searching for Dell Laptops) I started my search at Live.com and searched for “cheap” along with some product name; I tried a few variations such as “cheap wii” and “cheap laptop
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Last week Two weeks ago I spent most of Monday in Victoria Smith’s apartment in San Francisco (you can see the video clip we did for the local television show here). Besides having a stunning apartment with an amazing Pacific Heights view, it was her art collection that stood out for me. Largely consisting of prints, her collection is contemporary, colorful, life affirming and eclectic (and affordable). It also documents her relationships over the years with family and friends in the blogospher
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With all our talk about photo real rendering, and the uncanny valley we seem to have missed this bizzare manifestation of our cultural desires for “real fakes.” Real Dolls and now, Real Babies are a growing phenomena. They are inanimate, but extremely life-like figures of grown women and babies that people buy to, essentially, take the place of a real person in their life. Men describe having very real emotional relationships to the dolls, and women describe experiencing the same emotional a
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Mr. Pitiful really likes his Roomba. So much so that he wrote a song about it… and made a music video for it. It’s actually from about a year ago but sometimes songs about robotic vacuum cleaners take time to develop a following. I haven’t written a song about my Roomba yet, but that’s mostly because it constantly gets tangled up in the ends of my area rug and I’m pretty sure the battery is shot even though I’ve only used it a handful of times. [via BBG]
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I saw this video linked from our friends at robots.net. “Roomba song,” I say. “It’s probably bad, but I’ll give it a shot.” Well folks, I was wrong. Great song. Great voice. Great robot. Check it out.
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