Video: iRobot Looj treats gutters like an olympic event

Here you have it. iRobot's latest domestic robot, the Looj. Turn him loose in your gutters and you can remote control the little green varmint until the floods return. Click through for the video to learn all about it. You'll be happy you did.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 8th 2008 7:41PM]

Gutters? To each his own.

[quotaPop Posted Jan 8th 2008 7:50PM]

Looj?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 8th 2008 10:35PM]

For some reason, looj sounds like a brand of laxative...

[CaptCaveman Posted Jan 8th 2008 8:02PM]

What happened to a water hose? Also while this is shooting leaves out of the gutter what happens to the leaves that get kicked back on top of the roof?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 8th 2008 9:28PM]

choose the rotation that shoots them to the ground instead

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 9th 2008 3:48AM]

Better yet What happens when the battery dies, or weakens, while its up there

and is it just me or was the camera man being sarcastic

[POTPIE Posted Jan 8th 2008 8:05PM]

I'll buy this when it can also difuse bombs and fend off an insurgent attack.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 8th 2008 8:17PM]

There goes my squirrel jihad on your roof!

[NoNaim Posted Jan 8th 2008 9:23PM]

Nice. I'll wait until woot unloads them for half price a year from now.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 8th 2008 8:34PM]

Tekzilla tested this product (http://revision3.com/tekzilla/looj), it just doesn't work.

[Patrick Posted Jan 8th 2008 9:19PM]

the reviews on amazon are pretty horrid too. i really wanted one of these but they just don't seem to work.

on a slightly related note... did anyone notice there's a 120 model and a 130 model? apparently the only difference is the 130 is the 120 with a holster. yeah a holster. this may be a leap of faith, but after reading all those veronica comments i'm pretty sure us gadget folk as a whole don't need any additional help looking like dorks.

[JoseElMaton Posted Jan 8th 2008 9:16PM]

I like reading Thomas's posts in the early morning, it's good to see he's having a good time.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 8th 2008 9:57PM]

Whats with the interviewer? He's just making goofball comments . I wait to read them when I get here. If he let her talk more we might have found out whats under the hood of that thing . (replaceable battery ect.) thanks pal

[bigdave Posted Jan 8th 2008 10:06PM]

RICKER!! everyone already knows that this thing doesn't work!! did ya bother to type it into google before writing yet another crappy review?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 8th 2008 10:39PM]

My dad bought one of these for the free month offer they had a couple months back. It had some issues. The antenna would get caught on the nailes that hold the gutter on. The holster wouldn't attach if you even one bit of roof grit on the looj. Charging the looj was a pain in the ass. You had to remove the battery out of the side. No easy to access port on it.

Good concept, bad execution.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 9th 2008 12:06AM]

better solution, don't get gutters!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 9th 2008 1:30AM]

check out Tekzilla for a video review, this product is no good