Roomba 530 Wall-E edition proves even robots are corrupted by money
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Nov 10th 2008 5:11AM
posted Nov 10th 2008 5:11AM
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Does it make those annoying WALL.E sounds?
From the look of that image, you would be paying $50 for a decal.
Hmm.. so its an "iRobot" from hoover that has a "wall.e" edition...
throw in a terminator design and a Skynet uplink and i would consider buying a couple
Was I the only one who read this as "Roomba: Wall Edition" on first glance? I do need something to clean those pesky walls...
A wall and ceiling cleaner, now that would be cool to watch!
Man i love that movie.
Why?
Just, "Why?"
Yay...stickers. :|
is there an eva edition sticker?
Yeah, it's stupid, but are the people that actually buy robotic vacuum cleaners going to care that much about an additional $50 to make their gimmicky purchase that much more of a gimmicky purchase, methinks not.
Mix that with Japan's delusion that things that cost more are automatically better...and you have a recipe for success.
You obviously haven't used one. I was skeptical, but finally bought a Roomba last year after two techie friends were raving about theirs. I love it, it runs automatically every day while I'm at work then returns itself to the charger base. I'm always shocked by the amount of cat hair and other crud it picks up and need to empty the dust bin practically every day. A month later I bought a second one for upstairs. My house looks and feels cleaner all the time and I don't have to vacuum, a chore that for whatever reason, rational or not, I hate.
No way I'd pay extra for a decal, but the Roomba is the greatest thing since sliced bread, it's better in fact, I'd rather slice my own bread than vacuum my house. You can get the old style Roomba Scheduler for ~$150 reconditioned if you look around, works nearly as well as the much more expensive newer models.
Screw this thing, wheres my MO? Stupid future.. No flying cars, and I can't even get a cute robot to obsessivly clean things..