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John Blake
Member Since Aug 22nd, 2007

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iRobot's Roomba Pet torments the dog, sweeps away dander

Sep 3rd 2008 8:16AM on Engadget

There is a fairly large community of people that are modifying the Roomba to do all sorts of cool things.

There is lot's of good info in this forum:

http://www.roombareview.com/chat/viewforum.php?f=4

iRobot (still) working on lawn-mowing Roomba?

Jul 7th 2008 1:23AM on Engadget

Looks very interesting.

If your looking for the entire filing, you can grab the pdf here:

http://www.roombareview.com/chat/viewtopic.php?t=9724

Study finds Roomba owners heart their vacuums, accept flaws

Oct 2nd 2007 10:05PM on Engadget

For any of those that are interested, the study was conducted over the course of 5 months. Here are the threads where it was conducted:

http://www.roombareview.com/chat/viewtopic.php?t=2800

http://www.roombareview.com/chat/viewtopic.php?t=3832

http://www.roombareview.com/chat/viewtopic.php?t=3670

iRobot Connectr can't be half as lame as Looj

Sep 14th 2007 8:06PM on Engadget

Yup, looks like the predictions were exactly right. The 2 new products are in fact the Looj and the Connectr:

http://www.roombareview.com/chat/viewtopic.php?t=6333

iRobot Connectr can't be half as lame as Looj

Sep 14th 2007 8:05PM on Engadget

Yup, looks like the predictions were right! Looj and Connectr are the two new products:

http://www.roombareview.com/chat/viewtopic.php?t=6333

iRobot Roomba 560 hands-on

Aug 22nd 2007 12:26PM on Engadget

They will sell for between $299 and $399.

You can find lot's more information about the new models on the Roomba Message Board:

http://www.roombareview.com/chat

iRobot's new Roomba 560, 530: totally redesigned vacuumbots

Aug 22nd 2007 12:27AM on Engadget

Thousands of people would completely disagree with you.

Just check the Roomba forum, even the older generation was and still is a very competent vacuum. I have an older model, and I couldn't be happier with it!

http://www.roombareview.com/chat

Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.

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