Gadget watch - vacuum cleaning robot
Did you ever think that the words housework and fun could coexist in the same sentence? No? Well this genius invention is about to rock your world…or just clean it. And you won’t have to lift a finger!! What is it? It’s a vacuum cleaning robot. The answer to all your hovering prayers. The iRobot Roomba, to use its technical name, can be programmed to vacuum even while you’re asleep. You can pre-set it to work seven different times a week to make sure that all of the hoovering is done at a convenient time for you. It will vacuum the whole floor, including under furniture and along walls and will automatically adjust from carpets to hard floors and back again.
Roomba can clean four rooms on one charge and when it feels it’s running low, it will automatically return itself back to its self-charging Home Base to dock and recharge.
Over on Reevoo, you can read the vacuum cleaner robot reviews. Lisa from Morden says “I programme it to start cleaning at 6am every morning and when i come downstairs my floors which are a combination of laminate floor with rugs and kitchen and bathroom lino are spotless, dust and hair and crumb free!!”.
iRobot Roombas retail at (now try saying that after a few!) £221 in the UK or $399 in the US. If this is all a bit too much excitment in one household appliance, you can find a load of other, rather more boring vacuum cleaners here.
Tags: gadgets, home, Home and DIY, hoover, Living rooms, robot, vacuum
Blog posted on Monday, September 1st, 2008 at 3:36 pm under Vacuum cleaners, gadgets. Leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.
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Emily Says:
June 15th, 2009 at 4:53 am
While these robotic vacuums are fascinating there are a few drawbacks. Probably the biggest one being that they simply do not do as good a job as a “real vacuum”. Also they work best on a hardwood floor and low-pile carpet. They will not work well on deep-pile carpet. One has to prepare an area ahead of time for these machines. This means getting wires, couch fringes, loose carpets, drapery hems, blind pull cords, newspapers, small toys, etc out of the way. The products are still quote expensive but they are getting better. I would have to say that when they first came out they were a bit of a toy, but there have been quite a few improvements as of late and they are becoming more effective. Personally I do not think they are yet worth the money but perhaps soon they could become the preferred means of vacuuming.