You can control it over the internet... and even use it as mobile web-cam
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The built-in rechargeable battery provides sufficient power to operate the cleaner for 50 minutes. When the power is about to be drained, the cleaner automatically docks itself to the charger.
Just browsed through TechTV's review, and it does not say it's bad, in fact it says it's pretty good, and since i don't have any thick carpets mostly laminate floor i'm soooo getting one.
Yeah, the review is favorable, but they had a seqment with Becky Worley where she hired a maid to clean her apartment, but she asked the maid to use the Roomba instead of using a traditional vacuum herself.
They showed the little Roomba skittering across the floor while the maid watched TV and ate munchies.
In that video, the Roomba didn't pick up things it rolled directly over and it frequently got stuck on/against furniture.
In the end, the maid gave it a thumbs down because you had to move furniture around to create an open space lest the Roomba get confused, make the Roomba go over spots multipule times and eventually she found that it would be about four times faster just to do it the old-fashioned way.
And sorry about that link, I assumed it was the same story as the one I saw, but it looks like that review was completely independant of the segment that I saw.
i'm sure it would be faster to do it by hand. but then what's the point of having a robot do it?
cleaning my pool is faster by hand, but i'd rather have a little scooter tool around and vacuum it for me a bit at a time. sure it blows right by debris that i would have gotten, but it'll run all day.
Do you want to move all of your furniture in the morning, let the Roomba do it's thing and come home from work/school only to find it hung up on something.
Good idea, but poor execution.
It needs to evolve into something smarter and therefore more useful IMO.
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(Unless, of course, you saw it advertised on TV in the first place.
Originally posted by Cake
They had a segment on TechTV about the Roomba and it sucked - and not in a good way!
ahh - I see, TechTV!
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You can control it over the internet... and even use it as mobile web-cam
The built-in rechargeable battery provides sufficient power to operate the cleaner for 50 minutes. When the power is about to be drained, the cleaner automatically docks itself to the charger.
They showed the little Roomba skittering across the floor while the maid watched TV and ate munchies.
In that video, the Roomba didn't pick up things it rolled directly over and it frequently got stuck on/against furniture.
In the end, the maid gave it a thumbs down because you had to move furniture around to create an open space lest the Roomba get confused, make the Roomba go over spots multipule times and eventually she found that it would be about four times faster just to do it the old-fashioned way.
And sorry about that link, I assumed it was the same story as the one I saw, but it looks like that review was completely independant of the segment that I saw.
cleaning my pool is faster by hand, but i'd rather have a little scooter tool around and vacuum it for me a bit at a time. sure it blows right by debris that i would have gotten, but it'll run all day.
That's why the Roomba failed.
Do you want to move all of your furniture in the morning, let the Roomba do it's thing and come home from work/school only to find it hung up on something.
Good idea, but poor execution.
It needs to evolve into something smarter and therefore more useful IMO.