Dyson's new vacuum cleaner orders its own replacement parts
Dyson's coming out with a new vacuum cleaner that can call in to order its own spare parts when it breaks. Nah, it doesn't carry around a quarter or have a built-in cellphone or anything like that, what it does is alert you when there's a problem, and then you're supposed to dial a special number at Dyson HQ and hold your phone up the vacuum cleaner. It'll then use secret crazy robotic vacuum cleaner code to signal to the engineers back at Dyson what's wrong and what replacement parts it needs, along with its model details and serial number so it can have the parts automatically shipped off to you (we heard it also reports back if you've been treating it poorly or not, so be nice, ok?).
[Via textually.org]
