This would be a semi-autonomous home vacuum cleaning robot (aka "Roomba") which writes and draws your daily forecast in the pile of your carpet each morning before you wake, provided of course you have a sufficiently piled carpet. For best results, contact 21st Century Quest Home Improvement to have your home fitted with Floorcast(TM) Brand Carpets! Using the most compatible carpets available allows for more detailed messages, such as news headlines or notes to your loved ones, to be written/drawn in the pile.

Inspired by the zen garden-like patterns left in my carpet by my Shark robovac.
-- 21 Quest, Dec 16 2023

Printing Toaster QR_20Toaster
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day [minoradjustments, Dec 17 2023]

Hell, if it's one of the mopping kinds of robovac, it could even use dry erase markers on the right kind of hard surface, to be cleaned up at the press of a button after you've read the message.
-- 21 Quest, Dec 16 2023


Pair with your toaster for a seamless morning news experience.
-- minoradjustments, Dec 17 2023


What, the toaster pops out toast onto the floor?
-- pocmloc, Dec 17 2023


[pocmloc] No, no, no. [marklar]’s halfbaking (link). The toaster starts printing the story on your bread…and it is continued by the rug. Heating elements in your shower door will spell out the continuation…and the sock drawer will have a say as well. With all this progress you may not be able to avoid the news.
-- minoradjustments, Dec 17 2023


The printing is continued by the rug? So the toast does end up on the floor, (unless the rug is placed on the table beside the toaster?) I'm even more confused now. Toast in the shower, toast in the sock drawer... nothing wrong with toast emerging from every surface of the house but I didn't expect that.
-- pocmloc, Dec 17 2023


[pocmloc] Perhaps our crude metaphors leave out circumstances.

Gee whiz, leave it alone with the toast. The toast is consumed. When it’s been consumed on a few levels the rug takes over… (dot, dot, dot mean continue) and the shower door or bathroom mirror picks up the thread. Back in the living room the rug sez “Hello! Heres the rest of your briefing and please don’t drip on me.” It’s a hand-off thing, not a toast-til-you-drop thing. Although…
-- minoradjustments, Dec 17 2023


This is clever, I could see the zen garden patterns being a thing. When realtors sell or rent out a house with carpets they have it vacuumed with a sort of zig zag design.

I had to do it once and it was a pain in the butt. I'd absolutely buy one of these and set it to "Zen Garden".
-- doctorremulac3, Dec 17 2023


When I first started using robovacs, my house at the time was all linoleum flooring, with some low pile area rugs I put out so I didn't realize the potential. When I moved into my current place, which is carpeted throughout, I had a brief moment of panic when I came home and the carpets looked zenned out, like someone professionally came in and did it. I thought I was about to have a real problem with the landlords! Then I heard a beeping from under the couch, and found that my robovac was stuck under it. It had gotten started cleaning all on its own even though I hadn't set it up in the new place yet so it didn't have the floor plan mapped out. And then I looked again at the really cool pattern it left in the carpet and I decided then and there this little fella is here to stay!
-- 21 Quest, Dec 17 2023


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-- Voice, Dec 17 2023



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