Topic: Technology
You wanna know the real reason nature abhors a vacuum? Because nature is filthy. All that dirt and dust and mold and fungus and bacteria…think about it long enough and you’ll feel like puking. We suppose nature is fine in its place. But its place is not in your carpet.
Stick it to nature and score one for civilization with the iRobot Roomba Discovery SE 4220. This blindly obedient suckbot will patrol your hard floors and low-pile carpets for nasty little nasties. All you need do is sprawl languidly upon the divan, bonbons near at hand. It brushes debris toward its vacuum opening and stows the gunk in a 31-cubic-inch dustbin. Use “Spot Clean” and “Max Clean” modes to give special attention to high-dirt areas, or just let the Discovery SE employ its own soil sensors to seek out and rectify the dirtiest parts of your floor. And when it’s finished, or when its battery approaches its two-hour limit, the Discovery SE finds its own way back to its home base. There, it absorbs more energy and lives to clean another day. As migratory spectacles go, those salmon swimming upstream have nothing on this.
We’d like to see nature come up with something like the two virtual walls included here, which set up invisible infrared barriers to keep the Roomba Discovery SE penned into one room at a time. We dare nature to fully charge the Discovery SE’s battery in less than three hours, the way the APS Fast Charger home base does. Stair-sensing technology and an included remote control top off the Discovery SE’s embarrassment of features.
Man has struggled for millennia against the corruption and crud of the material world – lucky for you, victory in this eternal struggle is just $149.99 away. If cleanliness is next to Godliness, the iRobot Roomba Discovery SE 4220 is, like, St. Peter or somebody.