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The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte See more funny videos at CollegeHumor. 7. Cat Genie. Finally, A Toilet For Your Cat @ Yahoo! Video. 6. Russian cat show. 5. Cat riding a Roomba. 4. A cat that will not be ignored 1. Spaghetti CatDon’t clean the cat box, instead use the automatic C… health 0
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First, I want to wish all of you a happy and prosperous new year! This blog continued to grow in 2008 and we now receive 50% more traffic than the year before. On December 31st, the last day of 2008, Feedburner stats also reported that we finally reached 2000 subscribers in combined RSS and email. Thank you all for continuing to read this blog. This past year has been an exciting one as far as new developments in robotics are concerned. A number of new robots were commercial introduced (most of
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After being introduced to the highly innovative and ingenious home robots from the iRobot company, the Roomba and Scooba home robot models that will cater to your indoor cleaning needs, now comes RoboMower which, like its present companions in the domestic robots department, is also causing quite a stir with its aim to liberate people from doing the same old boring routine of mowing the lawn. A robot lawn mower, sounds great right? Wait till you hear more about this widely popular robot lawn mo
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The iRobot store is selling their Looj gutter-cleaning robot for $70.  Based on the comments we got on this one, it definitely doesn’t work on all gutters;  but if it works on yours, it could turn the chore of gutter-cleaning into a pleasant and easy experience — certainly well worth the price. Looj Gutter Cleaner [iRobot] Street Pricing [Google] Via Amazon [What’s This?]
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The unmanned lawnmower is nothing new, but we still think there’s something downright iffy about arming a Roomba with sharp metal blades. That said, if you’ve been dying to get in on the action, SmartMow might be worth checking out. Set to hit the stores in Spring ‘09 for $749 (much cheaper than some other robo-mowers), the thing weighs 17 pounds, features three cutting blades, will cut around a sixth of an acre on a single charge (about 2-3 hours), and is auto-docking. As far as knowing where t
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The Situational Awareness Mast (SAM, also known as a Zipper Mast) from Geosystems Inc. is a telescoping linear actuator that has a unique property — it’s stroke length is an order of magnitude greater than its nominal height!  For example, the SAM8 is a 10 lb device with a stroke length (8ft) that is 24 times it’s nominal height (4 inches)!  This can be used to vertically translate a robot’s sensor suite for better visibility while still allowing for a low profile.  Read on for informatio
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Robot Stock News has an interesting post about a new robot company, SmartMow, and their self titled product, a robotic lawnmower. The mower, which is currently available for preorder, will retail for $999 and features lithium batteries, a self-charger and can supposedly mow 1/3 of an acre on a single charge. SmartMow is currently offering this mower for a special price of $749 ($175 reserve price, and the rest when the product delivers in the Spring). The SmartMow requires a perimeter wire to t
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My in-laws came to visit this evening, so most of the morning/ afternoon was spent cleaning and finishing my sewing projects. My special helper, the roomba, kept me going all day.
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Call for Collaborative Christmas Video - Costa Rica here is a sample video on youtube as an invitation to all the costa ricans who can, to send in their videos before december 27th so they can put them together and spread about the collaboration on the 30th, as a christmas and young year’s pass out for the community.you can view a couple dancing costa rican swing in this video of a social presentation: Michael Jacksons’ Ass is Bleeding of the Day img src=”http://www.drunkenstepfather.com/cm
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Where we used to have this: and this: We now have this:We have our coffee table back YAY!(But we need to find a new home for the Roomba.)
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