Friday, February 11, 2005

Vacuum to Sofa – beam yourself out of the way!

It’s nice that we can finally buy intelligent vacuum cleaners, but we’re only seeing a pitiful beginning. In order for a vacuum cleaner to do its job it needs to communicate – for example – with the furniture:
Vacuum to sofa: Please move back one sofa size unit so I can vacuum under you.
Sofa to Vacuum: Cannot move.
Vacuum to sofa: I can push with a force of 10 Newtons (thanks for the correction, JS), can I move you?
Sofa: Don’t even think about it.
Vacuum: oh well, round we go …

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