Skeptics tried to call me a conspiracy nut, when I exposed how far TiVo is willing to go, in order to accomplish their master plan of controlling a robot army, but the skeptics were wrong and I now have video evidence of this plot in action! The YouTube clip embedded above was emailed to me by an unnamed source, who has been working deep undercover at one of the iRobot factories. It is perhaps, the most terrifying four minutes of video that has ever been uploded to YouTube, but it offers undisputable proof that TiVo has been quietely plotting their robot invasion.
The movie is actually a sequel to an earlier segment, but this Roomba strikes back clip is far more entertaining. In the first clip, Roomba fell in love with an obsolete vacuum and learned an important lesson about love, loss and the price of having to serve demanding human masters. In this clip, it is the humans who learn what happens when you abuse our robot overlords.
Recently, I was actually given a Scooba and I have been excited about trying it out, but after seeing this video, I’m thinking that it may be safer for me to stick with iRobot’s pool cleaner and just use it for my bathtub instead. On the other hand though, if I could figure out the backdoor hack that tells Roomba how to fetch me a beer, the risk of being attacked in my sleep may be worth the benefits . . .
#1 by snarkolepsy on May 10, 2007 - 3:41 pm
That was really clever!
I’m pretty sure that is happening at my place. I often have to play “what’s that beep”? I’m sure its just all my devices talking to each other.
#2 by davis freeberg on May 10, 2007 - 4:52 pm
I wish all of my gadgets could talk to each other. It’s frustrating to have so many devices not communicate with each other. How great would it be, if iRobot had wifi and could let me control my Scooba with my TiVo remote
They could even create a way where you could log onto the net at work and tell Roomba to be cleaning because of unexpected company. There is all this great technology out there, but getting it into one device is impossible.
Thomas Hawk has this really awkward gadget strapped onto his TiVo remote. It looks funny, but all he has to do is hit a button and it starts beeping so he can find it. It would be neat if on the TiVo 4 we see the technology embedded directly into the remote, that way we can beep back at our gadgets and they’ll understand what we want.
#3 by snarkolepsy on May 10, 2007 - 5:44 pm
See.. I question his dedication to Tivo. If he really loved it – there would never be a loss of remote. Or he would just buy more remotes and put them everywhere.