It's like a Roomba for your lawn
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Teenagers, persuade your parents to buy this lawnmower and you can get your weekend afternoons back. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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BURLINGTON - Forget R2D2. The next frontier in robotics is a miniature tank that borrows some of the technology behind military bomb-defusing robots - to eject rotting foliage from your gutters.
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Exploring the mysteries of the universe from the comfort of a lawn chair just got easier, thanks to a handheld sidekick from Meade Instrument Corporation.
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Wired NextFest shows how to get power from pond scum, pull cords and the wind. You'll also see how to save resources with a solar car, low-power computing and a self-reporting power cord. But wait, there's more....
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The use of robots around the home to mow lawns, vacuum floors, pull guard duty and perform other chores is set to surge sevenfold by 2007, says a new UN survey, which credits dropping prices for the robot boom.
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The Zeo runs purely on batteries. It's a direction the other big makers are not so keen about.
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The new Japanese robot Miuro turns an iPod music player into a dancing boombox-on-wheels. The 14-inch-long machine from ZMP Inc. blares music as it rolls and twists from room to room. The robot, which looks like a ball popping out of an egg, has a speaker system from Kenwood Corp.
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GENEVA - Because of falling prices, the use of robots around the home to mow lawns, vacuum floors, pull guard duty and perform other chores is set to surge sevenfold by 2007, a new survey says.
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Meet the Roomba, a deceptively simple gizmo that, more than anything else at last week's gadget extravaganza in Las Vegas, grabbed my attention. -Leslie Walker
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A Japanese firm said it has created a jellyfish-shaped robot that can alert homeowners to burglars or housesit for their pets -- and, when not at work, lounge about and be "beautiful."
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Eructate! Eructate! Today's dodgy robot story comes from Russia, where reports have it that a powerful wardroid under development has been given unusual duties. The deadly combat machine, doubtless more accustomed to mowing helpless fleshies like grass, has been reassigned in a cheesy sitcom-style twist as a robo-nanny in charge of looking after the inventor's baby son.â¦
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New Dyson DC-24 is a powerful little sucker. Check out Wired's review in Gadget Lab.
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By Martha McKay, The Record, Hackensack, N.J.  Feb. 18--These days, it's all about TVs -- who's got the biggest, the  sharpest, the loudest.   But some day soon, homeowner envy may shift to a different subject:  automation.
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The Dyson Airblade, a dryer that uses high-speed jets in lieu of heat. These jets blow at about 400 miles an hour.
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Scotts is an interesting small-cap play on the domestic lawn and garden industry.
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Chief executive Colin Angle offers a vision for the robot home contrary to the one you might have looked forward to as a kid.Photos: iRobot phones home, cleans gutters
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What's the cost of the perfect suburban lawn?