{"id":9378,"date":"2006-12-27T16:01:43","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T16:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9378"},"modified":"2006-12-27T16:01:43","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T16:01:43","slug":"review-irobot-scooba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9378","title":{"rendered":"Review: iRobot Scooba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/scoobaReview.jpg\">I missed <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/My+life+with+Scooba\/2100-11394_3-6130694.html?tag=ne.gall.related\" target=\"new\">this<\/a> Michael Kanellos piece on CNet (from Oct) about living with a Scooba, the iRobot cleaning bot that both vacuums and washes floors. I&#8217;ve seen lots of people faun over it, how cool the concept of an affordable robot that can clean the horror that is the bathroom floor &#8212; okay, MY bathroom floor, anyway &#8212; but I&#8217;ve seen little about how it actually works in the wild. With the Roomba, I waited several gens to get one &#8217;cause I heard that earlier versions were less-than-reliable. I suspected the same was true for Scooba, and this review bears that out. The main cons seem to be that it&#8217;s very noisy and it leaves a watery film on wood floors that needs to be wiped up or it could damage the floor. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed this Michael Kanellos piece on CNet (from Oct) about living with a Scooba, the iRobot cleaning bot that both vacuums and washes floors. I&#8217;ve seen lots of people faun over it, how cool the concept of an affordable robot that can clean the horror that is the bathroom floor &#8212; okay, MY bathroom &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9378\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: iRobot Scooba&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}