Aftermarket mods, my good man.
Does anyone else now picture Coldfire’s home life as the following:
He comes home from work each day to a house devoid of life. As he enters the kitchen, he throws his keys on the counter. He proceeds to walk slowly up the stairs, all the while slowly disrobing and leaving a trail of clothes to mark his way. He can be heard to be whistling “I Touch Myself” by The Divinyls.
He opens the door to his bedroom. A solitary candle flickers in the breeze. Lined up around the room, are all manners of vacuums. Hoover Uprights, Drit Devil cylinder cleaners, floor polishers, Wet n’ Dry vacs, handheld vacuums, and for those extra special times, miniature computer keyboard cleaners.
Coldfire does a shuffle step around the room letting his hands and eyes roam over the assembled mass of suckitude. He finally settles on his chosen for the evening. The bedroom door closes and all anyone can here is the plaintive moan and whir of Clogboy’s evening companion.
Mullinator, that was a trip down mental-visualization lane that I did NOT need!
-Tcat
My cats are traumatized by the vac. I don’t think I can have a robot cleaner chasing the cats around all day while I’m gone.
I might miss something good.
Mullinator: superb!
You Dutch are renowned for keeping your houses neat.
I myself am 1/256 Dutch and partake of that behavioral trait proportionately.
Not only is it cute, it’s “independent, gorgeous, sensitive, concientious, and industrious.” Where have you been all my life, Trilobite?
No fair. The English language version doesn’t have the hot chick in high heels bending over to adjust the… controls…
Aahhh, you gotta love Swedish industrial design. A vacuum cleaner with a design based on a Paleozioc creature, in metallic fire-engine red, that actually does the vacuuming for you…paradise! Any clean-freak paleontologists out there?
You know, when they told you to go to Amsterdam to relax. And they told you to go round the “special” shops and choose a hot model from out of the window. They weren’t talking about the electric hardware shop you nincompoop.
But now your faced with a dilemma. Assuming your the monogamous type, it’s Heloise or clean floors. Difficult decision.
Who says Heloise can’t clea… I mean, who says it’s the woman that always has to do the cleaning? 
Dear Penthouse Forum:
You wouldn’t think an evening with a trilobite would be anything to write home about, let me tell you…
Anyone else have a Frank Zappa tune stuck in their head, now?
[sub]Could one, in fact, clean that sofa with the very same Wet-Dry Vac that… no, nevermind. I don’t wanna know.[/sub]
This reminds me of the time I became an Urban Legend, or at the very least a running email gag. I worked for the Electrolux company, in a small local sales office, in 1985. It was a dead boring place to work, lemme tell you. So one afternoon, a friend of mine stopped by just to chat, and since I had nothing better to do, we started playing with stuff in the office, including a bottle of Wite-Out and a copy machine. A few days later, I inadvertantly filled in one of our “altered” invoices and faxed it to someone at the main office.
Several years passed, and I received an email entitled “Corporate Blunders, LOL!” Listed in and among other various goofs was this gem: “An office manager for the Electrolux vacuum cleaner company was fired for sending out invoices on which the company’s logo had been replaced by the motto ‘Nothing Sucks Like An Electrolux.’”
Yes, this is a true story, yes, it was ME, not someone I knew, or the cousin of my hairdresser. This, fellow Dopers, is my claim to fame. My parents are very proud.
I want one of these babies.
That trillobite?
Oh, it would so be toast when my dog got a hold of it. It’s an evil vacuum and it moves slow.
Toast.
BNB, you can get Dysons in lots of pretty colours, my mum has a red/purple/yellow one and my land lady had a lime green/purple/grey one.
they’re fab.
I dunno. Trilobite is a cool name and all, but if I had just invented a robotic vaccuum cleaner, I totally would name it Rosie, like from the Jetsons. Of course, I’d also expect it to be slightly sarcastic and rude. Maybe I expect too much of my robots.
In other news, Coldie Clogs has decided that he loves a robotic sucker. How BladeRunner. 
I HATE vacuuming. Something like that would be a godsend to me. As it is, I make Mr Winnie do it - and he doesn’t do it as often as he should.
And we DO have a Kirby. It’s the most wonderful thing in the world for picking up dog hair. Of which we have an abundance.
Dyson make a robot vacuum too, the DC06.
http://www.dyson.co.uk/range/feature_frame.asp?model=DC06
According to the Dyson sales rep I used to deal with in my last job, you won’t be able to buy this in the shops. Instead, you have to call the Dyson factory direct, and they’ll manufacture one for you. The downside is that it costs £2500. But at least it comes with a hose and attachments, so you can use it as a canister vacuum for stairs and furniture (something you can’t do with the E-Lux). It’s as powerful as a full-size Dyson, so will actually clean carpet properly, too.
I want, I want!