Hahahahahahaha, and this is the technology they want to fit in the current rash of robot cars!
But I hope those have an accessible app, too. Wonder if they could test some of this technology on those little electric scooters that are getting all the rage. BobH. ----- Original Message ----- From: <englishride...@gmail.com> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2016 12:06 AM Subject: Re: Roomba 980 with an app! Getting rid of carpets also helps to call about allergies, as well as chronic dry eye syndrome, which I have quite badly. My husband and I currently own a Bob Sweep robot vacuum, and it needs quite a bit of babying. What I mean is that it often gets stuck in areas, such as underneath the edges of cupboards, under our couch, or it bumps up against something, and thinks that there's something stuck between it's bumper thing on the front and the back you, which can cause problems. Also, it gets a lot of hair stuck in the brush, and when that happens, it freaks out. Needless to say, we are not super impressed. Oh, sure, it cleans rather well, but I couldn't just go out for a few hours and have it vacuum and be confident that it wouldn't get stuck somewhere along the process. And this happens more than once per cleaning. This is also supposed to be the pet version, which is supposed to be better at handling dog hair and things than the original. Thanks, Ari > On May 31, 2016, at 7:26 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > > And while this may not be exactly on topic for the list, it does fit in with > the discussion about vacuums: get rid of all carpets > in favour of hardwood, tile, cork or bamboo and live a cleaner life. After I > replaced the carpet in my bedrooms with cork I never > looked back and it is ever so much easier to clean. I can guaranty that > Bill’s vacuum trick won’t pick up a speck of dirt after I > have vacuumed my cork floor and especially when you have a dog carpets are > horrible and wall to wall carpets in particular. It was > amazing how much dirt was under my wall to wall carpet when I finally ripped > it out after 12 or so years even though I vacuumed > regularly and had it steam cleaned once a year or so. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Bill Gallik > Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 7:09 AM > To: viPhone E-Mail List <viphone@googlegroups.com>; Peter Logan > <pdlloga...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Roomba 980 with an app! > > Please permit me to explain something quite basic to the concept of vacuum > cleaners; I learned from first-hand observation when I > had reasonably good vision. > > No matter how good any commercially available vacuum cleaner may be, there > will always be some residual dirt left behind. While > my late wife and I lived in Wheaton, IL. we decided to buy an Electrolux. We > called the company and they sent out a very > delightfully dapper gentleman for a demonstration. The then current vacuum > cleaner we had a terrible job and we were ready for a > definite upgrade (I’ll not mention the brand name of that vacuum cleaner). > > The dapper sales rep showed up and proceed to do the demo where he ran our > sorry vacuum over about a five square area of our > living room carpet. He then took his demo Electrolux, placed a handkerchief > in the nozzle such as to serve as a filter and then > proceded to vacuum over the same area previously done. After completing this > exercise, he showed all the dirt caught in the > handkerchief with all the “left behind” dirt. > > I then did the same thing (with a handkerchief) with our vacuum cleaner and > once again cleaned over the “demonstration area.” I > then showed him the dirt left behind by the Electrolux. > > That “demo trick” is something I had read about in a magazine with the > supposition that any vacuum cleaner will not be able to get > every spec of dirt. We bought the Electrolux from this dapper sales rep > anyway because it was a markedly better appliance than > the one we had at that time. > > The point is this, maybe the Rhumba won’t get every bit of dirt - but then, > no commercially available cleaner will! > > ———— > Bill & Leader Dog Holland > > wfgal...@icloud.com > > > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please > contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list > itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please > contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list > itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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