iRobot Roomba costume from myRoomBud, a company started and run by kids
"A newly released Georgia Tech study shows that some Roomba owners become deeply attached to the robotic vacuums," reports AP.
Beki Grinter, an associate professor at the school's College of Computing, "decided to study the devices after she saw online pictures of people dressing up their Roombas, disc-shaped, self-directed vacuums made by iRobot Corp."
One more thing about the Roomba:
it seemed to make males more excited about the chore of vacuuming. And that could have profound implications for the future of vacuuming.
"Forty years of women's liberation hasn't done much for the redistribution of vacuuming labor," Grinter said. "But robotics -- that has promise."
