A few weeks ago while clicking the channels on a rainy Saturday afternoon I stumbled upon the Severely Shoppers Network demo'ing the iRobot Roomba and Scooba. There was a guy from iRobot doing a devoted demo. I'm not usually an impulsive buyer but after doing some apt checking on the web I realized $400 for a Roomba 535/Scooba 340 combo was a easy on the eyes good deal. About 10 days later when the package deal arrived I had almost forgotten we ordered the two. My wife and I went back and forth on whether we should results them without even opening the box. I finally talked her into trying them out - they came with a 30 day lolly back guarantee - so why not?

We opened the Scooba first. The Scooba is a robotic floor washer that you add a cleaning clarification to - it dispenses the solution, scrubs the floor and vacumes up the ribald solution. Basically you fill it up with cleaning solution and let it go. When it is done it stops and you empty out the slovenly solution for a container on the Scooba.

I was happy to see that we were actually sent a Scooba example 380 instead of the 340 - the 380 has a better motor and can uncontaminated up to 850 square feet at a time which is just about the square footage of our kitchen, half bath and mudroom - perfect. The Scooba also came with two understood walls that you setup - they send out an infrared beam to produce a barrier, preventing the Scooba from going where you do not want it to go. It cruises around contemporary back and forth, bouncing off walls and getting under chairs and other places that are difficult to reach with a mop.

The Roomba is a vacuum that works similarly - it also cruises around back and forth, usual over rugs and not falling down stairs. Both are amzing to watch and both do an amazing job cleaning - there is no way we are sending either one back for a refund!

Poking around on the web I learned iRobots are not straight for living rooms, bedrooms and kitchens - it turns out they have a very nice educational robot called the...

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