Reseña: Roomba 980, ideal para los DINKS que no tienen tiempo de limpiar

Si eres de esas personas que, con suerte, barren y aspiran su casa una vez por semana, la nueva aspiradora de iRobot, Roomba 980 te puede ayudar a mantener el espacio limpio por un poco más de tiempo.

En mi caso, el principal problema para mantener la casa limpia es la falta de tiempo y el exceso de pelos gracias a un par de mascotas. Esto ocasiona que en todo momento el hogar esté un poco sucio. Probé durante una semana este nuevo modelo de aspiradora y esto fue lo que encontré.

Lo bueno

El uso de la aspiradora es sencillo, al sacarla de su empaque se enchufa el cargador y se coloca la roomba 980 encima de él para dejar que se termine de cargar. Mientras tanto el usuario debe bajar la app de iRobot –tanto para iOS como para Android– en donde configurará el equipo. Ojo, es el único modelo de aspiradora iRobot que funciona con la app.

Una vez que la aspiradora esté cargada, se abre la app y se busca la Roomba. En este caso detectó a ‘Robotina’. A partir de ahí el proceso es simple, puedes pedirle a través de la aplicación o con el botón “Clean” que comience a funcionar en ese momento –ante lo cual hará un mapa del inmueble mientras va limpiando–, puedes solicitarle que solo funcione en uno de los cuartos de tu hogar o puedes programarla para que lo haga mientras no estás.

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Forbes’ 2016 Next Billion Dollar Startups List Is Open For Entries

These days, there are few words more controversial in the tech and venture capital worlds than “unicorn.” Over the past few months, unicorns (i.e., private companies with at least $1 billion in valuation) have taken a merciless beating, as many young, highly valued tech companies have battled markdowns, down rounds, and challenges in the public markets.

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The Latest IT Transformation Is Being Led By The Phone Company

The Open Platform for NFV project is driven heavily by telecom providers. Yes, the phone company is behind improving your enterprise network. Some may think of “The Phone Company” as a landline monopoly…or the villain in the 1967 film The President’s Analyst. But in reality telecoms aren’t stodgy old companies anymore. They are transforming themselves. No longer mired in the old analog and POTS services of the past, telecoms are now actually running the innovative public clouds that power today’s enterprise businesses. Spending all that time with carriers and their equipment providers yielded some key observations.

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Red Hat Wants To Repeat The Magic of Linux With Containers

At the recently held Red Hat Summit, Red Hat’s annual user conference, containers took the center stage. The keynotes emphasized the importance of containers, both for the company, and the broader open source ecosystem. OpenShift, the PaaS offering from Red Hat, hogged the limelight by getting the attention of the speakers and attendees.

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How Augmented Reality and IoT Will Re-Create Business Environments

The Internet of Things (IoT) is already changing the way we interact with the world. Our devices are smarter, and I envision a future where we can turn on our lights, preheat our ovens, and set our thermostat to the perfect temperature before driving home from work. Augmented reality blurs the line between our physical world and the internet. Though some write AR off as a lot of bluster and no substance, I see the marriage of AR and IoT revolutionizing the way we do business.

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What Is The Hottest Place On Earth And Did It Just Break A Record?

What is the hottest place on Earth?  On July 10, 1913, observers in Death Valley, California (Furnace Creek, ) measured a temperature of 134°F and declared it the hottest temperature ever recorded. On September 13, 1922, a weather station in Libya recorded a temperature of 136.4°F (58.0°C). The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recognized this observation as the hottest air temperature recorded on Earth for some time.

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