Cleaning your home’s gutters is a messy job, but someone undoubtedly should do it. Stopped-up gutters can cause major problems, from wet basements to ruined siding and trim to damaged interior walls.
If you want to do this gunk-removal on your own, here are some guidelines. But do consider hiring a company — usually less than [...]
Rather than paying someone a fortune to clean all the leaves, dirt, and other junk our of your gutters, get the iRobot Looj gutter cleaning robot. The winner of a Consumer Electronic Showcase Best of Innovations Award, the Looj makes gutter cleaning fast and easy.
You still have to get up on a ladder, but since [...]
Need to clean those leaves out of your gutters this weekend?
In tonight’s Angie’s Tuesday Tips, the consumer guide “Angie’s List” warns that thousands of people are injured every year cleaning gutters.
Angie Hicks of Angie’s List says”Accidents do occur. Ten percent of our Angie’s List reported knowing someone who had been hurt on a ladder. If [...]
A slender, 2-inch tall, remote-controlled robot, fitted with the power to clean and able to clear 60 feet of gutter in 10 minutes, recently won top honors as the most innovated home appliance this year.
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iRobot’s “Looj” (you guessed it, sounds like “luge”) cleaned up in the [...]
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1. Kindle. What it is: Since it became available in November, Amazon.com has struggled to keep this new electronic reading device in stock. The revolutionary portable reader downloads books, [...]
This is the only remote-controlled robot that removes leaves, small branches, and dirt from gutters, eliminating the need for ineffective and laborious manual methods. Made by iRobot, a company founded by roboticists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and renowned for their tactical robots used in U.S. military reconnaissance missions, the robot is controlled by [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]