[lit-ideas] Re: Hmmm... all hype?
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:39:25 EST
I love it. The lurkers on the list come out for housecleaning gadgets!
Julie Krueger
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Maybe we ought to get one? BR in the LR
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From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Hmmm... all hype?
> Julie,
>
> The McCreerys have been the proud owners and users of a Roomba for it
> must be going on two years. We have been quite happy with the little
> beast. It does not replace the need for occasional manual cleaning of
> corners but does a nice job of keeping the floor of our small, open
> plan apartment clean. It was particularly useful before our Persian
> cats died, an easy way to keep ourselves from getting ankle-deep in
> fur during shedding season.
>
> It is, by the way, amusing to watch in operation. The algorithm that
> controls its motions begins with a random search to work out the
> dimensions of the space it is cleaning, so it starts out like Mr.
> Magoo, shooting off in odd directions, bumping its nose into things,
> from which it recoils like a sentient billiard ball, spinning and
> zooming off until it runs into something else.
>
> John
>
> On 2/12/07, JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx <JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
http://cgi.ebay.com/Roomba-iRobot-Discovery-4310-BRAND-NEW-IN-BOX-4210_W0QQitemZ190081082758QQihZ009QQcategoryZ124101QQtcZphotoQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>>
>> Just curious to know if anyone out there has attempted to use one of
>> these
>> things and if it's as totally worthless as I imagine it to be.
>>
>> Julie Krueger
>> wanting to hang up the vacuum and mop....
>
>
> --
> John McCreery
> The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN
> Tel. +81-45-314-9324
> http://www.wordworks.jp/
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