Archive for the ‘Home Appliance’ Category

Truly No-touch, sink faucet

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

As any self-respecting obsessive-compulsive will tell you, you can't touch sink knobs. Because you turn them on when your hands are dirty, then wash your hands, then go to turn them off and re-encounter the germs you deposited on them ten seconds earlier. Problem solved with the Miscea Sensor Activated Faucet! ...

iRobot Roomba

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

newVideoPlayer("roomba_gawker.flv", 475, 376); iRobot hasn't released a new, proper Roomba servantbot since late 2004's Discovery (Scooba, of course, excepted). Today that changes, with the 560 and 530 we caught wind of back in May. There's a lot going on here, so we'll start at the top: iRobot is touting ...