SK Telecom, never wanting to be outdone by
clever hackers in producing totally useless and bizarre devices that no one really needs, is in the final development stages on a
Roomba-style robot that can be controlled by your mobile phone. The circular cleaning bot will be able to receive direction from a phone user on where to scrub, buff, and vacuum, while the controller views all of the exciting, floor-sweeping action on his or her cell phone via a built-in camera at the front of the bot. This should be the prefect product for those who feel the Roomba makes life too easy by
cleaning a room on its own -- although it's possible that this technology could be adopted by legions of young men hoping to get a better look up women's skirts. Only time will tell.
posted Jul 27th 2007 6:59PM
Hey look, its iPervert!
This begs the question...
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How fucking lazy are you?
This should fit in with all of Korea's other cell-phone-controlled stuff, including all the HomeVita stuff like air conditioner, washer/dryer, lights, locks, blinds, gas, etc...
Seriously, it's a robot with a serial connection. I've built one in my freshman year in college.
You just get a serial (RS232) to bluetooth converter and write a java application that uses the JSR82 API for communicating over bluetooth (using the bluetooth serial port protocol). it's nothing revolutionary. a bunch of people have made bluetooth controlled devices with a rs232-bluetooth converter. remember all those wii-mote controlled robots?
Sounds like a perfect tool for terrorist!
I have one ...... I named it steven!