By day, it is a lowly vacuum, its shell a cheery red, sucking up dirt and unwanted filth. By night, in the darkness that is, it is the Roomba of Doom, a cold-hearted black, low-slung, sleek machine of doom, sucking up dirt and zapping unwanted filth (sp: intruders).

Because Roombas wander around the house when vacuuming, have them store the layout of permanent objects in a matrix data set, and add one of those battery-powered shock-prod defense tasers. Then, at night, have it seek out movement found via IR cameras, placed around the house, that track anybody who breaks in.
-- DesertFox, Apr 01 2006

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[theircompetitor, Apr 01 2006]

Or anyone getting a midnight snack in direct contravention of doctor's recommendations.
-- methinksnot, Apr 01 2006


good thing cats can run faster than the roomba. What happens of you have to visit the mens room during the night?
-- jhomrighaus, Apr 01 2006


It doesn't track you, it tracks bodies entering the house via IR cameras. The cameras are connected to a computer and track the illegal body through 3D space, and wont mistake you for somebody else, unless you run up and hug them.

Or you could enter a temporary shut-off code into one of the security panels.
-- DesertFox, Apr 01 2006


Can it have a shark fin on top, and a speaker that plays 'Jaws?'
-- RayfordSteele, Apr 01 2006


If you want it to.
-- DesertFox, Apr 01 2006


[jhomrighaus] You have a men's room in your house? ... thinks ... Is that the one with the dart board in it?
-- squeak, Apr 04 2006



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