iRobot Scooba 390 Floor Cleaning Robot – Now with more clean!
With four kids under seven running around my house, you can imagine what my floors look like. Fortunately, my husband is a little obsessed with keeping it clean, which at times can take up more time and energy than he has to spare. I’ve heard really awesome...
The Mint Plus robotic floor cleaner doesn’t suck.
Now that we have adopted a large, hairy lab, I am fighting a losing battle against little black hairs everywhere. So when I spotted this latest weapon in the battle against dirty floors, I couldn’t resist giving it a try. And though the latest robotic floor...
Piquing our Geek: The Original Egg-Bot
You have to be pretty hard core about your Easter Eggs to invest $195 in a machine that makes them look awesome. But that’s just what the creators of the Egg-Bot were thinking when they invented this open-source robot that applies computer controlled motion to...
Piquing Our Geek: Scooba goes where no robot vacuum has fit before
When I find myself doing the really icky chores around the house, like scrubbing the floor under my kids’ breakfast chairs, or getting on my hands and knees around the toilet, I think: In this enlightened age, shouldn’t there be a button I can push to take...
Limited-edition robot pouches are adorably useful too
Back when I was a Jetsons-loving adolescent, I used to think how cool it’d be in the year 2000 when we’d all have our own robots who followed us around and carried our stuff for us. So, it’s 2011, and I was wondering where my robot dreams had gone...
The Neato robotic vacuum sucks. In a good way.
For the past two Christmases, my mother has given me vacuums, a gift I try not to take as judgment on the state of my house. And while the Dyson was–and still is–great, my little robotic Roomba continues to make me positively giddy as it whirls around my...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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