Roomba, bah.

[eub]

Behold the Electrolux Trilobite!

In other news, Over-Sexed Rugsuckers From Mars. "Serious examination of what exactly would happen if three drunk six-inch-high Martians landed on Earth, climbed inside a vacuum cleaner bag, and electronically mated with a street bum. Of course, people would eventually go running from their homes, pursued by deranged R2-D2 Hoovers."

Comments

[elynne.livejournal.com]

*faints*

[drakemonger.livejournal.com]

Dude, the thing costs $2300. The roomba costs like $200. The main difference as far as I can see is that this thing has an ultrasonic sensor to do distal mapping.

[eub.livejournal.com]

Sometimes you've just gotta pay through the nose for sheer useless style. It's like Apple.

(A Roomba owner and robot-vacuum nerd commented that
"Trilobyte : Roomba :: classical AI : emergent behavior".)

[drakemonger.livejournal.com]

Nah, with Apple you get style *and* usability.

Now, the system I've heard tale of, where you can just let the thing run all day and it goes back to its power station whenever it needs to recharge, *that* has added usability.