The Small But Powerful Scooba 230
Are you familiar with the Roomba vacuuming robot? You may not know that the company that makes it, iRobot, makes other types of cleaning robots, including floor cleaners, pool cleaners, and gutter cleaners.
The floor cleaner is called the "Scooba", and it's been around for awhile.
About the same size as the Roomba, the Scooba is awesome, but there are some places, like small bathrooms and other small spaces, where it just won't fit.
But there's great news: the new, tiny Scooba 230 was introduced at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and it fits into small spaces with ease.
This little dynamo is only 6.
5 inches in diameter, but can clean up to 150 square feet.
It can get to all those places you hate to clean, like the space around the commode, tight spaces between the vanity and the bathtub, and the like.
If you hate cleaning the bathroom floor (Does anyone actually like it?) this is a really cool device.
The Scooba 230 works pretty much the same as the full-size Scooba.
First it shoots out a water / cleaning solution combo onto the floor.
Then it uses scrubbers to loosen the dirt from the floor, and finally it uses its squeegee-vacuum to vacuum up the dirty solution.
It doesn't reuse dirty water, and it is made to go over the same place multiple times for extra cleanliness.
On its initial pass, it also puts down a second thin layer of clean water after squeegeeing up the dirty water.
This works to loosen up any extra grime that may have been left behind on the last go-round.
One tank-full of solution gets the Scooba 230 to clean up to 150 square feet - just right for small rooms.
The original Scooba 300 series models, on the other hand, clean areas from 250 to 850 square feet and are about 15 inches in diameter.
Scooba floor cleaners work on tile, sealed hardwood floors, and linoleum.
One forward-looking feature of the new 230 model is that it comes with extra bottom plates that you can pop off and on with ease.
What this means is, if you don't want the same bottom plate cleaning your kitchen floor right after it's cleaned your bathroom floor, all you have to do is pop off the bathroom plate and pop on the kitchen plate.
And once you pop them off, they're easy to clean in hot water before putting them back on.
iRobot's new Scooba 230 manages to be tiny, yet still clean a decent sized area because of the unique design of its water chamber.
Inside the tank is a flexible, impermeable membrane.
As clean solution is squirted out, the membrane moves into the vacated space, making extra room for the dirty solution that's being vacuumed up.
It's an ingenious concept, and the clean and dirty water never mix! The Scooba 230 model uses the same software algorithms as the Roomba and the bigger Scoobas.
It "knows" to follow along walls and go around obstacles, and it averages 5 passes over each spot, so you know your floor is really clean.
Plus, it has sensors in the front bumper that keep it from tumbling down stairs or other drop-offs.
Look for this new little cleaning machine to hit the market in the USA in spring 2011 at a suggested retail price of $299!
The floor cleaner is called the "Scooba", and it's been around for awhile.
About the same size as the Roomba, the Scooba is awesome, but there are some places, like small bathrooms and other small spaces, where it just won't fit.
But there's great news: the new, tiny Scooba 230 was introduced at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and it fits into small spaces with ease.
This little dynamo is only 6.
5 inches in diameter, but can clean up to 150 square feet.
It can get to all those places you hate to clean, like the space around the commode, tight spaces between the vanity and the bathtub, and the like.
If you hate cleaning the bathroom floor (Does anyone actually like it?) this is a really cool device.
The Scooba 230 works pretty much the same as the full-size Scooba.
First it shoots out a water / cleaning solution combo onto the floor.
Then it uses scrubbers to loosen the dirt from the floor, and finally it uses its squeegee-vacuum to vacuum up the dirty solution.
It doesn't reuse dirty water, and it is made to go over the same place multiple times for extra cleanliness.
On its initial pass, it also puts down a second thin layer of clean water after squeegeeing up the dirty water.
This works to loosen up any extra grime that may have been left behind on the last go-round.
One tank-full of solution gets the Scooba 230 to clean up to 150 square feet - just right for small rooms.
The original Scooba 300 series models, on the other hand, clean areas from 250 to 850 square feet and are about 15 inches in diameter.
Scooba floor cleaners work on tile, sealed hardwood floors, and linoleum.
One forward-looking feature of the new 230 model is that it comes with extra bottom plates that you can pop off and on with ease.
What this means is, if you don't want the same bottom plate cleaning your kitchen floor right after it's cleaned your bathroom floor, all you have to do is pop off the bathroom plate and pop on the kitchen plate.
And once you pop them off, they're easy to clean in hot water before putting them back on.
iRobot's new Scooba 230 manages to be tiny, yet still clean a decent sized area because of the unique design of its water chamber.
Inside the tank is a flexible, impermeable membrane.
As clean solution is squirted out, the membrane moves into the vacated space, making extra room for the dirty solution that's being vacuumed up.
It's an ingenious concept, and the clean and dirty water never mix! The Scooba 230 model uses the same software algorithms as the Roomba and the bigger Scoobas.
It "knows" to follow along walls and go around obstacles, and it averages 5 passes over each spot, so you know your floor is really clean.
Plus, it has sensors in the front bumper that keep it from tumbling down stairs or other drop-offs.
Look for this new little cleaning machine to hit the market in the USA in spring 2011 at a suggested retail price of $299!
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