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Originally Posted by IGGYRULES
Just figured I'd share a couple things (gadgets) that I'm absolutely thrilled with. After being a non believer of both items and a late adopter, these are things I could not live without now.
Password manager. http://www.lastpass.com I only have to remember one password and it generates really secure passwords for banking.
Last but not least the automatic vacuum. Not quite as known as the Roomba but the Neato XV-11 is a better machine hands down. This thing maps out you house and finds it's way around furniture and back to home base for charging etc... Roomba's are random but this thing goes in straight lines and doesn't miss anywhere. Leaves great straight vacuum lines in the carpet that looks like a well manicured lawn. Works well on hard floors as well. We could not believe the crap that this thing picks up. I'd suggest it is as good if not better than our central vac. We go around and pick up everything off the floor (toys etc... we have kids) and then push the go button and leave for the day. If we didn't have kids to pick up after we would schedule it to run daily but we're not sure what kind of disarray the floors will be in at a given time. Picks up cat hair like crazy, I'd imagine it'd be good for a dog as well. They do firmware updates fairly ofter and it's extremely easy to update. See the videos for yourself. Available at robotshop.ca in Canada or Target, amazon, etc.. in US.
http://www.neatorobotics.com/
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+1 for Lastpass. Except for their massive security breach a year ago, they are a great company with a great product. If any posters use the default password manager in your web browser, I recommend you switch immediately. Lastpass also had a fantastic form filler tool. I can sign up for a new account or fill in shipping information in one hotkey.
For the robo-vacuum, do you find that it does as good a job as you would do? My old roommate had a roomba and it was novel for a while, then I realised that I could do a better job in 5 minutes. I will buy one of these vacuums if you can confirm that it actually cleans as well as you could. Please say it does. I want more robots so badly.