This Hybrid Robot Cleaner Vacuums and Mops All the Floors In Your Home

This Hybrid Robot Cleaner Vacuums and Mops All the Floors In Your Home

If you’ve got a mix of hard and carpeted floors in your home that you just don’t feel like cleaning, you usually have to rely on two separate cleaning bots to get the work done. But you can write your Roomba and Scooba a letter of recommendation and send them on their way now that Moneual’s new Rydis H67 promises to tackle both tasks with one machine.

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Tide-Infused Inks Makes These Shirts Self-Cleaning

In a breakthrough that could vastly improve life for college students—and their parents—around the world, Tide has developed what could very well be the world’s first self-cleaning t-shirt.

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Glove Bucket Lets You Avoid Stuff You Don’t Want To Touch

Glove Bucket Lets You Avoid Stuff You Don't Want To Touch

Even if you don’t mind getting your hands dirty now and then, some tasks involve harsh and dangerous chemicals you should probably avoid contact with. And while it doesn’t guarantee you won’t catch a whiff of a fume here or there, the Glove Bucket does provide a simple and safe way to keep harsh cleaning agents off your skin.

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How To Be A Fly On the Wall From 100 Feet Up

Last month we wrote about what it’s like to be a window cleaner in New York City. The New York Times did a video profiling veteran Spiderman Brent Weingard and documenting him cleaning windows or just, you know, hanging out. It was great. But you gotta wonder who was behind the camera on that piece. Because whoever it was was up there too.

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A Carwash For Bikes Means It’s Ok To Ride Through That Mud Puddle

A Carwash For Bikes Means It's Ok To Ride Through That Mud Puddle

Riding your bike through a full-size carwash is one of the easier ways to seriously injure yourself. But who has the time to take a hose and sponge to their bike after a dirty off-road ride? The rich and famous, maybe, but for the rest of us an Italian company has developed a carwash for bikes—or a bikewash, if you will—called the QBike.

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A Dirt Savvy Vacuum That Greenlights a Clean Floor

A Dirt Savvy Vacuum That Greenlights a Clean Floor

It’s easy to tell when hardwood floors are clean, but it’s not so obvious when it comes to carpets. Who knows how much dust, dirt, and debris are hidden amongst those fibers? So instead of randomly running a vacuum over every inch of your living room, hoping it’s clean, Samsung’s new Motion Sync vac tells with an impossible to misunderstand red light/green light approach.

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Clean Your Grody, Nasty, NSFW Laptop Keyboard in 30 Seconds

Clean Your Grody, Nasty, NSFW Laptop Keyboard in 30 Seconds

We live with our computers. We eat at our computers. We fall in love and cry at our computers. Of course our keyboards are festering petri dishes of filth. But you don’t have to live in a perpetual state of …

    



Tag Along With the Fearless Badasses Who Clean The Windows of NYC

Cleaning sucks, but just be happy you don’t have to do it from dizzying heights. New York City’s window washers cleaners have to be some of the ballsiest cleaners out there, and they dangle from buildings everyday like it’s nothing. The New York Times took a closer look at their squeegee-ing heroics, and it’s terrifyingly awesome.

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A Rare Behind the Scenes Look at How Dyson Torture Tests Its Vacuums

Did you know the polycarbonate plastic material that Dyson uses for the dirt collecting bins on its vacuums is the same material used to make police riot shields? We all know that Dyson makes some of the best vacuums on the market, but the company is now giving us an inside look at its R&D labs and exactly how it ensures its hardware sucks so incredibly well.

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You’ll Wish You Had a Reason to Make This DIY Magnet Vacuum

Having to sweep up thousands of tiny metal shavings is admittedly a pretty uncommon chore. But doing it by using a super powerful neodymium magnet to just suck it all up and drop it in a box looks like such a freakin’ blast. I’d take that over washing dishes any day.

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