My New Baby (It’s A Girl!)
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Tuesday, 9 of September , 2008 at 12:22 am
My new baby arrived in the mail today, a beautiful, healthy, 12.5lb Roomba 535. Ain’t she puuuurty?
If you’re asking yourself why a high-profile robotics blog editor like myself would buy what is admittedly an entry-level 500 series Roomba, I have two answers for you. One, I’m cheap (and poor). Two, being more expensive does not necessarily imply a better robot, especially when it comes to Roombas (ahem). The 535 is a HSN-branded Roomba that’s the same as a 530, except that it can use the Virtual Wall Lighthouses and wireless scheduling like its bigger and more expensive brothers. Best of all, the 535 from HSN actually costs less than the 530 from iRobot. A lot less. The 530 will cost you $330 from iRobot’s website, whereas the 535 is only $212 from HSN (with the coupon code C56574).
Get it here.
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