Still think robots aren’t useful? Check this one out. It’s called the iRobot Looj, and it cleans your gutter so you don’t have to spend half a day shinning up and down a ladder doing the job yourself.
It stands 2.25-inches high, and sweeps out dirt, leaves and other debris while you settle down for a [...]
At an event in New York on Tuesday night, the Consumer Electronics Association announced its innovation and design award winners for the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show to be held in Las Vegas in January 2008.
While some of the prize winners and featured products definitely looked cool, most of them weren’t brand new. In fact, many [...]
Last time, I talked about one of the first steps involved in setting up your email newsletter: Getting an Email Newsletter Service.Another commonly-asked question is how to design the newsletter to make it the most effective. This breaks down into several questions and considerations:
Should you send a text only newsletter or design it in HTML? [...]
iRobot CEO Colin Angle introduces the Looj gutter-cleaning robot at DigitalLife 2007 in New York on Thursday.
The Looj, whose photos were accidentally leaked earlier by the Federal Communications Commission’s Web site, is a robot for cleaning gutters on the outside of the home. While it looks neat, the robot is more or less a home-helping [...]
Having unveiled the Looj gutter-cleaning robot earlier today, iRobot has now shown off another new bot, the ConnectR. It’s a ‘virtual communication and interaction’ robot designed for families.
Basically, it hooks up to your home Wi-Fi network, and lets you dial in remotely to have videochats and VoIP calls with people in the house (or pets, [...]
For the second time in a decade, scientists say fungus is threatening France’s most celebrated prehistoric paintings, according to The New York Times.
The mysterious animal images that line the Lascaux cave in the Dordogne region of southwest France are believed to be 15,000 to 17,000 years old.
Among other considerations, experts believe the invading patches of [...]
Hanool Robotics’ (www.robotics. co.kr) cleaning robot known as OTTORO was first introduced to the market on July of 2003. It is the most technologically advanced robot in the world due to Hanool’s experience in manufacturing and heavy R&D.
As of now, OTTORO is the sole leader in its field. Currently neither the US nor Japan has [...]
Along with the ConnectR, iRobot has also announced its iRobot Looj, a robot made to clean out your gutters. This way, you won’t have to whip out the ladder anymore and risk falling off your roof. The 2.25-inch Looj sweeps out dirt and leaves from your gutters, making sure no blockage gets in the way [...]
October 1, 2007 Cleaning the gutters is an unloved yet necessary - even dangerous - household chore that is inevitably given the lowest priority until gutters are clogged and overflowing with leaves. The latest offering from home robotics specialists iRobot uses remote control to solve the problem – the Looj blasts out debris and brushes [...]
Dominated by home-cleaning gadgets, the consumer robotics market is expanding with the arrival of ‘bots that can spy inside your home when you’re away or arrange virtual meetings of family or friends.
Robotics experts say gadgets introduced Thursday could usher more socially oriented robots into the U.S. market, though they bear little physical resemblance to humans [...]