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thistlechaserYay! My robot arrived today! So as requested by a few people, here's the post about it!
It's called "Roomba", and it's a robot that runs around your house and vacuums everything on its own. And it's so cool!
I was worried at first that it would scare my cat, but she was just wary and curious. She's afraid of "mechanical noises" (like shavers and hair blowers and such), so I figured this would freak her out, but it didn't. She was ready to run, but mostly she just stood around and watched it. While it wasn't silent, it was a lot quieter than I had figured it would be. (Maybe a little quieter than a blow dryer on the lowest setting.)
Seen from above. It can handle changing surfaces (I have two different rugs and a bare floor in the area I let it run around in).
It's amazingly small, too! It has three different vacuums (along with an edge cleaner and a "deep dirt" cleaner), and it's just a little larger than a frisbee! (Maybe 1.5 frisbees in size?) (I thought it was spelled Frisby, but the LJ spellchecker suggests frisbee, so we'll go with that.)
It's so much fun to watch, plus it does a good job! The only "problem" I see with it is that I'm going to need to clean it more than the recommended times; my hair is so long that even after running for half the room, the brushes are all tangled up. (This happens on normal vacuums, so it's not surprising.)
It's so odd to pick it up! This will sound strange, but it feels like a lobster: It has a slightly loose "shell", and you can feel the insides moving within it.
I got it from Sharper Image.
It's called "Roomba", and it's a robot that runs around your house and vacuums everything on its own. And it's so cool!
I was worried at first that it would scare my cat, but she was just wary and curious. She's afraid of "mechanical noises" (like shavers and hair blowers and such), so I figured this would freak her out, but it didn't. She was ready to run, but mostly she just stood around and watched it. While it wasn't silent, it was a lot quieter than I had figured it would be. (Maybe a little quieter than a blow dryer on the lowest setting.)
Seen from above. It can handle changing surfaces (I have two different rugs and a bare floor in the area I let it run around in).
It's amazingly small, too! It has three different vacuums (along with an edge cleaner and a "deep dirt" cleaner), and it's just a little larger than a frisbee! (Maybe 1.5 frisbees in size?) (I thought it was spelled Frisby, but the LJ spellchecker suggests frisbee, so we'll go with that.)
It's so much fun to watch, plus it does a good job! The only "problem" I see with it is that I'm going to need to clean it more than the recommended times; my hair is so long that even after running for half the room, the brushes are all tangled up. (This happens on normal vacuums, so it's not surprising.)
It's so odd to pick it up! This will sound strange, but it feels like a lobster: It has a slightly loose "shell", and you can feel the insides moving within it.
I got it from Sharper Image.
