Revenge of the Roomba
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Roomba
Roomba
04/10/2004 02:05 PM0.11 released
Roomba 0.12
Roomba 0.12
04/28/2004 11:49 AMRoom booking software for hotels.
I lust for a Roomba
I lust for a Roomba
02/10/2004 01:28 PMI'm just listening to Helen Greiner's presentation of
Roomba.
She actually has one that she is running on the table, and the #etech
-channel is filled with geeks declaring their instant love at the tiny
little home robot.
Can't say I'm much different.
I seriously, seriously want one. Like now.
Update: Joi snapped a photo of me, relaxing outside :-)
Update2: I'm now a bit less enthusiastic. IRobot does in addition
build the PackBot, which is a military bot.
We were shown a cool video in which the PackBot? is
thrown in through a window to a building, drives off the roof, and
drives directly into a river; surviving all this stuff. It was
apparently used during the Afghan war as well. It's just a matter of
time before they strap it with guns.
Roomba Discovery
Roomba Discovery
07/12/2004 07:39 AM
Oh hey, new Roomba! The Roomba Discovery is being
pre-sold "exclusively [to] current Roomba owners" at the moment, but
includes some much-needed improvements, like a self-charging Home Base
which the Roomba will head to, automatically, when done cleaning
(finally!), an "intense cleaning" feature (presumably detecting areas
that need multiple passes, and a dust bin that's 3 times larger.
Sounds like an all-around improvement, so good on them. The Discovery
is currently being sold on the iRobot Store site for $250.
R
ead - Product Page [NewRoomba]
Related
Australian Robot Vacuum Contender:
Floorbotics [Gizmodo]
Trilobite Vs. Roomba: The Mystery Revealed
[ArtOfSpeed]
Electrolux Trilobite
Robotic Floor Vac Review (Bunny Not Included) [Gizmodo]
Roomba Gets Overhaul
Roomba Gets Overhaul
07/13/2004 02:02 PMExtreme Tech Jul 13 2004 5:46PM GMT
More Roomba hacking
More Roomba hacking
07/14/2004 10:00 AM
Another group of hardware hackers have at a Roomba robotic
vacuum cleaner:
"For higher level control, we've attached a Virgin
Webplayer. The Webplayer was sold as a loss leader for Virgin's
internet service in the late 90s, and thus can be found on ebay for
under $100. It has two serial ports, a 200MHz Geode processor, 64M
ram, and a miniPCI port. Thus, we can give it an 802.11b card, a
webcam, and a usb-serial adapter."
Link (via MetaFilter)SmartCarpet Roomba Killer
SmartCarpet Roomba Killer
06/17/2005 06:15 PM
Foreign companies
Vorwerk and Infineon are furthering the process of making Americans
even more lazy. Research into the popular robot vacuum,
Roomba, has shown the inefficiency of being able to cover all parts of
the carpet. These foreigners are developing a robotic vacuum that
interacts with RFID chips imbedded into the carpet. The robot uses the
RFID transmission information to decipher whether or not it has
actually covered all areas of the carpet.
Intelligent Robot
Vacuum [Ohgizmo.com]
Roomba customer support
Roomba customer support
07/02/2004 04:35 PMWe have a Roomba at home to sweet our floor while we're out (it's
really noisy). Yes, from iRobot makers of the "next step in unmanned
tactical mobile robots". In other words: They are makers of robotic
killing machines! Anyway, one of the evil cats ate the power supply
some time ago, so it hasn't gotten much use lately. (Her cats, I
usually say when they do things like that) I sent them an email
through their online email form...
Back-door your Roomba
Back-door your Roomba
05/07/2004 03:35 AMPT sez, "This week's "how to" article from Engadget shows how to put
the Roomba Robot Vacuum in hardware check mode. This is a useful mode
for Roomba hackers (and anyone else) to test the functions of the unit
as well as see how the unit works, test the 'virtual walls,' clean
specific parts and have some fun."
Pressing the L button for the 5th time (you'll hear 5 beeps) will put
the Roomba in "bulldozer" mode, in other words it'll just roll forward
no matter what, the sensors and bumpers and picking it up will not
stop it. Be careful, don't let the Roomba damage you or itself.
Link
(
Thanks, PT!)
Two Timing Roomba Discovery Reviews
Two Timing Roomba Discovery Reviews
07/15/2004 06:58 AM<
img src="http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/images/roomba_discovery.jpg"
alt="roomba_discovery.jpg image" width="200" height="200"
class="borderyes" border="0" align="right" vspace="5"
hspace="15"/>We're going to give this New York Times'
Circuits section review of the new Roomba Discovery a passing
grade, if only because author William Grimes (oh ho ho) talks about
torturing robots. It's good to know that when robots rise up against
their fleshy masters, we'll all be able to blame Circuits. The
new Discovery does well enough -- it's clearly an improvement over the
previous generations -- but its still, ultimately, an expensive
distraction to getting real cleaning done. And that's why I love
it.
More Roomba and links inside.
Trilobite Vs. Roomba: The Mystery
Revealed
Trilobite Vs. Roomba: The Mystery
Revealed
06/01/2004 01:53 PM
Ever wonder why the
Trilobite 2.0 robotic vacuum is about $1,800 when you can get a good
ol' American Roomba for as low as $160? Turns out, it's because the
Roomba is, as robots are judged, pretty dumb. One of I4U's readers
with a degree in human computer interaction and artificial
intelligence wrote a nice piece about some of the major differences
between the two robot vacuums, which he compares to the difference
between a "Trabant versus a Rolls." Unfortunately, without one of them
fancy AI degrees, the Roomba is the one I can afford.
Read
[I4U]
Hack-Friendly Roomba Scheduler
Hack-Friendly Roomba Scheduler
06/24/2005 04:01 PM
CNET
News.com gets freaked out when we link to their stories and use their
pictures, so thank god iRobot has a picture of their new Roomba
Scheduler on their site already. The Schedular is pretty similar to
the Discovery, except it includes a timer function that can be set to
activate the robot on a schedule (hence...). It's sort of an obvious,
if welcome, upgrade, so the additional news that iRobot will be
encouraging tinkerers to hack in additional features into this model
is great. A Roomba with a camera is cool, but I think it's time
somebody figured out how to make a Roomba that's smart enough to not
eat cords.
Catalog
Page [iRobot]
Trick out your Roomba
[News.com]
Roomba is Sucking up Christmas Dollars
Roomba is Sucking up Christmas Dollars
12/19/2004 03:41 PMA new CNET
article notes that the iRobot
Roomba is a hot item among Christmas
shoppers
this season. Best Buy claims it's the most popular gift item at
their stores this year and the Roomba
4100 has also recently reached the
number four position on Amazon's
Housewares top sellers list (it has since dropped to position six).
The San Mateo Daily Journal recently picked
the Roomba as number six on its list of the top ten holiday gadgets.
So
you better watch out, Santa may be bringing you an autonomous robot
vacuum cleaner this year.
Roomba Discover vs Sharper Image eVac
Roomba Discover vs Sharper Image eVac
08/10/2004 10:18 AMEveryday Robots has posted a comparison
of the Roomba
Discovery and Sharper
Image eVac robot vacuum cleaners. It's
primarily a consumer-oriented review on points such as suction power
and
carpet types rather than more interesting things like hackability. But
if you're thinking about buying a robot vacuum for its intended
purpose,
this could be a helpful review.
The Best Revenge
The Best Revenge
07/02/2004 11:16 PMWhy the new iMacs will be successful no matter what they look like. By
Robert X. Cringely, PBS (via MyAppleMenu)
Revenge of the S..t
Revenge of the S..t
06/06/2005 12:11 AMSaw
Star Wars III. I
think that if you spliced episodes I, II and III together, you might
get a pretty decent movie. Just take the last half an hour from this
one - because no other bit in it deserves saving. The first third of
the movie is mostly boring - I yawned at the attempts to create
sense-of-wonder (you know guys, there's a thing called "too
much").
The middle part of the movie I mostly giggled through, much to the
annoyance of my fellow moviegoers, I'm sure.
The final third had a bit of the same feeling as the old saga, and
I had nearly a tear in my eye at one point. But still.
Star Wars III is kinda like going to a bad hamburger place: It's
crap food, and then you laugh at a poor waiter who drops a tray and
makes a mess, but their ice cream leaves a decent aftertaste.
Next time, I'll just have the ice cream, thanks.
The Art Of Revenge
The Art Of Revenge
08/17/2004 09:33 PMA new Hyperspace image series has begun on StarWars.com allowing fans
to get an early look at the secrets behind
Revenge of the Sith.
Hundreds of breathtaking and intriguing pieces of original art from
the art department will be spotlighted weekly beginning August 23.
Click on the thumbnail above for more details.
Revenge Of The COTW
Revenge Of The COTW
07/27/2004 01:01 PMIt's back! You wanted it....you got it. The
Forgotten Force Custom of
the Week returns with a new name and an all-new Bespin Escape
diorama by Chris McVeigh. Chris has designed this diorama based on
Cloud City from
The Empire Strikes Back. Share your thoughts on
this custom in our
forums. Drop me a line
if you'd like to see your custom work featured.
"Saladin's Revenge"
"Saladin's Revenge"
05/19/2004 10:25 AMSweet Revenge
Sweet Revenge
12/22/2004 01:33 AM
Korean soccer is definitely improving and the recent win
against Germany's lossless team is extra sweet too.
"Revenge of the Sith"
"Revenge of the Sith"
07/26/2004 03:47 PMRevenge On The City
Revenge On The City
06/24/2005 04:49 PM
The
Destruction of Medieval Boston - "Most people think of Boston
as a dense city, and it is, especially by American standards.
Today’s city is, however, a pale shadow of the medieval maze that
was Boston before large-scale modern planning and spatial concepts
entered the picture... Here is what Urban Renewal replaced."
RoseArt Gets Revenge
RoseArt Gets Revenge
01/06/2005 05:48 PMCheck out this sampling of RoseArt's new
Star Wars: Revenge of the
Sith products on tap for later this year. Kids of all ages will
have fun with crayons, pencils, figure stampers, posters, and various
other arts and crafts. Thanks to Steven Renner for the tip.
Revenge Of The Nerd
Revenge Of The Nerd
06/28/2004 10:15 AMThe Briton who designed the iPod has beaten ex-Beatle Sir Paul
McCartney, Bono and Bob Dylan in a music power list. By Derek Brown,
The Sun (via MyAppleMenu)
X2: Wolverine's Revenge
X2: Wolverine's Revenge
12/05/2003 07:51 PMBy Ken Newquist (Inside Mac Games via MyAppleMenu)
Premiere Gets Its Revenge This May
Premiere Gets Its Revenge This May
04/06/2005 06:21 PMAnd so it begins. Time for
Star Wars magazine cover collector’s
to start checking the racks on a daily basis. With the last movie
virtually on our doorsteps –hard to believe, isn’t it?-- magazines are
chomping at the bit to cover what will hopefully go down in history as
the best
Star Wars episode ever. Leading the pack, as usual, is
Premiere, who will release a cover featuring Anakin that completes the
collection they started in 1999 with their four
Episode I
covers. Click the thumbnail above for a sneak peek of next month’s
issue.
Murphy's Revenge!
Murphy's Revenge!
10/29/2003 01:14 AMThe first rule of Murphy's Law is that you do not blog about Murphy's
Law while out of the country. Let me repeat that. The first rule of
Murphy's Law is that you do not blog about Murphy's Law while out of
the country. It's sort of like the most important rule of Happy Fun
Ball: Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Ball I apparently taunted Murphy. Here's
what happened... Three of us headed out a bit before lunch time to...
Blackbeard\'s Revenge
Blackbeard\'s Revenge
10/29/2003 04:57 PMDesign documents updated
Revenge of the Dot-coms
Revenge of the Dot-coms
01/26/2004 07:41 PMGoogle and Yahoo/Overture Services dominate the online advertising
business. Expedia maintains a healthy lead over the airline industry
joint venture Orbitz. ...
Neuroscience of revenge
Neuroscience of revenge
08/31/2004 01:55 PM
David Pescovitz:
Researchers at the University of Zurich have shown that revenge is,
well, sweet. Their experiment, described in Scientific American, was
based on a game where one player was given the opportunity to punish
another player for financially screwing him. PET scans revealed that
when a player contemplated revenge, his striatum, a "reward center" in
the brain, became energized.
This sort of causal relationship may explain why people
are willing to discipline a stranger even when there is no immediate
gain in it for them. "Emotions play a proactive as well as reactive
role," remarks Brian Knutson of Stanford University who penned an
accompanying commentary (to a paper about the study in the journal
Science). He notes that "passionate" forces may need to be included in
economic models because, as this research shows, “people show
systematic deviations from rationality."
Link
Before and Aftertaste of Revenge
Before and Aftertaste of Revenge
09/08/2004 07:44 PM
Scientific American reports that revenge
is indeed sweet. No surprise there. I always
thought that revenge
is a powerful source of motivation and that inability to take
revenge leads to
severe stress.
The article should should have distinguish before and after 'taste'
of revenge more
clearly though. I think the aftertaste is rather
sour.
Red Bull Revenge
Red Bull Revenge
04/18/2005 02:36 PMHere are a few of the
Star Wars Episode III Revenge Of The Sith
Red Bull Energy Drink cans exclusive to Thailand. This is only the
first set, as there will be a total of 25 different can designs with 5
different character toppers. Thanks to Atis for the news and photo.
Revenge Of The Brick
Revenge Of The Brick
04/12/2005 11:35 AMHead over to
Starwars.com for US broadcast news on this
mini-movie from LEGO. British fans should
read this
story from March 21st before despairing.
Reflections on 9-11 and the candidate of
revenge
Reflections on 9-11 and the candidate of
revenge
09/13/2004 02:55 AMThis weblog used to be devoted largely to political essays about the
criminal modus operandi of the Bush Administration, and to pointing
out under-reported news items, like the Bush Administration's
unilateral and unconstitutional suspension of the writ of habeas
corpus by creating a new and fictitious legal category, enemy
combatant, and detaining U.S. citizens like Jose Padilla. In the 2
years after 9-11, when the media decided that the salvation of the
country required pinning wings on the pig who had stolen the election
and pretending it could fly, I spent a lot of time writing about the
follies and crimes of the Bush Administration. At times I felt like a
lone dog baying at the moon. However, in the last year, I've slowly
written fewer and fewer political essays, and spent less time pointing
at news stories. In part this was because my changed life
circumstances left me less time to write, in part it was because I
decided to spend some of that energy actually trying to effect change
instead of just writing about it, and in part it was because around
the first anniversary of the start of Bush's unilateral War on Iraq,
some parts of the media woke up to Bush's lies and started reporting
again. So, except for incidents like Abu Ghraib, where I got so
outraged at the signals from on high that America now condones
torture, I have pretty much ceased to write at length about political
matters. I assumed that as Bush's lies became more widely known, and
the utter cynicism of his exploitation of the national tragedy of 9-11
for political gain became clearer, his support among the American
people would drop precipitously. I trust the long-term judgement of
the American people -- you can only fool them so long, although when
you have most of the media in your pocket it is a lot easier to keep
them fooled for longer. But I have been wrong about Bush' support, or
at least misjudged how much it would drop. About half the country,
plus or minus 5%, still plans on voting for him on November 2. I have
racked my brains trying to understand the American people's support
for Bush. The 5% up or down can be explained by the media frenzy of
the week about Swift boats or National Guard service or similar
garbage (while the media continues to ignore...
"Revenge of the Tattooed Nerds"
"Revenge of the Tattooed Nerds"
08/08/2004 03:24 AMRevenge of the Friday Diversion
Revenge of the Friday Diversion
08/20/2004 02:40 PMWell, it's been about six months since we last posted a Friday Diversion, which makes it less of a
weekly feature and more of a biannual one. We've got two here that
won't keep you busy all weekend (I hope not, anyway), but should get
you frustrated enough to build up a nice, frothy head of road rage for
the drive home.
Click here to comment on this entry
Revenge Of The Sith Vehicles
Revenge Of The Sith Vehicles
02/07/2005 01:09 AMCheck out these shots of the upcoming
Revenge of the Sith
vehicles! Anakin and Obi-Wan's Starfighters are just the tip of the
iceberg found here. Spoiler warnings may apply!
Man jailed for internet revenge
Man jailed for internet revenge
09/09/2004 10:46 AMUTV Internet Sep 9 2004 2:18PM GMT
Revenge of the kampung nerds
Revenge of the kampung nerds
12/28/2004 02:59 AMThe Star Online Dec 28 2004 6:14AM GMT
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Livewire: Beep! Beep! Ultra-Fast
Broadband Is Here (Reuters)
Livewire: Beep! Beep! Ultra-Fast
Broadband Is Here (Reuters)
08/28/2004 04:38 PMReuters - For Rainer Kinnunen, life has been a bit
of a blur since he signed up for a superhigh-speed Internet
service three years ago.
Honk Honk Rattle Rattle Crash Beep Beep
Honk Honk Rattle Rattle Crash Beep Beep
06/22/2004 08:56 AM
Let's say that you have a cell phone, and you need to sound as if you're
somewhere else, or you need to get the long-winded person you're
talking with off the phone. Beep BEEP!
Beep BEEP!
10/16/2002 06:47 PMIn this month's Endpoints column, Rich Salz concludes his look at
methods for transporting binary data in SOAP with an examination of
BEEP.
Beep
Beep
09/10/2004 06:47 PM
Catch NASA's solar
capsule! Via B3ta Beep BEEP! (XML.com)
Beep BEEP! (XML.com)
10/21/2002 09:20 AMNet-BEEP-Lite-0.06
Net-BEEP-Lite-0.06
04/22/2004 05:37 PMAudio-Beep-0.11
Audio-Beep-0.11
04/14/2004 06:31 AMBeep if you love me
Beep if you love me
12/14/2003 11:03 PMZDNet Australia Dec 14 2003 9:36PM ET
Beep! It's time to take your pill
Beep! It's time to take your pill
06/27/2004 08:11 AMChicago Tribune Jun 27 2004 12:09PM GMT
Please leave a message after the beep
Please leave a message after the beep
09/16/2004 05:29 PMWhile I loathe "I'm busy, will post later" weblog posts, I feel
this is necessary after looking at this site and realizing how
neglected it appears.
In gearing up for this concert in NYC, I've been crazy mad busy with a
million loose ends to tie up before that day, and recently I started
playing with this new beta feature of del.icio.us to post my
daily distributed bookmarks here. I sorta helped coax Joshua to code
the feature, so that I could basically do what Jeff Veen
does on his site, but without all the perl/MT frippery. What I
didn't realize is that once I could post links interesting to me in a
very low threshold way, it would totally satisfy whatever craving I
had to post anything of substance to this site.
So yeah, expect the trickle of daily links for the next week or two
as I descend back into the bitmines to crank stuff out. Oh, if you're
in NYC next week, and you're attending the concert, be sure to look
for me and say hi.
After the Beep, Exit the Premises
After the Beep, Exit the Premises
05/06/2004 05:51 AMFrom cops to customs officers, law enforcement types across the nation
are carrying special pagers designed to detect 'dirty' bombs. But
plenty of things set off the devices, even radioactive kitty litter,
and some experts doubt an attack is near. By Randy Dotinga.
Why does my Apple laptop beep at me?
Why does my Apple laptop beep at me?
04/09/2004 03:54 PMOk. It's driving me so mad that I'm forced in the end to appeal to
the general public. My laptop appears to be beeping at me. Every so
often - no more than once a day, for some reason which appears to be
hardware-related (I'm not even sure it's coming through the
Powerbook's speakers) it beeps at me. Two sets of two beeps in the
form: beep-beep beep-beep, always the same tones. There doesn't appear
to be any particular rationale for when it beeps, except that it could
be related to whether it's on my lap or not (I've never heard it
happen at work) and/or whether it's being charged (I don't think I've
ever heard it beep when it wasn't being charged). It's really worrying
me as I don't know what's causing it to protest. It could even be a
bloody alarm clock for all I know (except that it doesn't seem to beep
at any particular time of day). It's driving me insane - does anyone
know what the hell is going on?
Read the comments
beep media player 0.9.6
beep media player 0.9.6
12/24/2003 05:57 PMA media player based on XMMS.
Beep! I'm Under the Couch, Says the
All-in-One Remote
Beep! I'm Under the Couch, Says the
All-in-One Remote
04/22/2004 01:13 AMFor owners of Radio Shack's new 6-in-1 Kameleon remote, the answer to
beep media player 1.0.0-pre4
beep media player 1.0.0-pre4
10/31/2003 02:58 PMA media player based on XMMS.
Revenge of the Roomba
