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Roomba releases new version

Roomba Discovery

Be still my heart, there's a new Roomba! Few things are quite as appealing as home-automation devices that resolve nagging problems like, oh, vacuuming - and it looks like this Roomba may finally have gotten it right. One of the biggest problems with previous versions of the Roomba (as far as its customers are concerned) has long been its inability to automatically dock itself for recharging (Electrolux's Trilobite has always been able to do this, but it also costs a lot more). Anyway, that problem gets fixed in the new version of the Roomba, called the Discovery. Along the way they've included a dustbin that's three times as large as well as an "intense cleaning" feature that "focuses cleaning on dirtier areas."