Do they make those in kid sizes?

Bundle them in with the new rollerblade shoes and I'm down for that.

Ill be able to pick up the crumbs from my USB powered easy bake oven now.... cuz ima 21st century digital boy

The real ball and chain.

this demands a photoshop

Those shoes suck.

It has a tiny rechargeable vacuum inside the base.
And there is a laser movement sensor which switches the suction on and off automatically to save energy. It's all made of green nylon with a flexible rubber sole and elastic sock to fit any foot making it comfortable to wear.

I guess someone had to say it... This Thread is Useless Without Pics.



/Yea those are damned sexy
//And look terribly comfy

dahmers love zombie

Hohduuduu.

/obscure
//probably misspelled

Not that obscure.

/also an Eddie Izzard fan
//cake or slashies?
///so my choice is 'or slashies'?

Those shoes would be on my lap.

I think 1870-1920 would have been a good time to live. Now? Only modestly so.

Research found that only 28 per cent Hoover daily - down six per cent in the last two years.

And just 37 per cent do it every three days - down from 32 per cent.
Huh? Isn't that overkill? What is wrong with walking around barefoot? That seems to pick up the dust well.

soakitincider:

I disagree. Cholera and Spanish Flu and WWI were bummers. Narrow it to 1890-1910 and I'm there with you.

A great time to be alive? I'll go for 2090-2130. It seems like chicks keep getting hotter over the years and I'd like to see the progression forward. Of course, we'll all be speaking Chinese by then.

Help! I'm stuck to the floor! Turn them off! Turn them off!

Pff. I do the same thing, only i slide around the house in my underwear with the radio blasting and swiffer sheets under my feet.

/every sunday
//has hardwood floors
///it's like the Icecapades!

Moon pie.....what a time to be alive.

Apu is that you? Time has ravished your once youthful looks.

dly: Those shoes would be on my lap.

I lol'd

This concept is not new. These were first invented by ex-president Sherbert Shoover.

Nobody posted a picture of Al Bundy? For shame.

oxymephorous

Your comment is worthless without video!

Make them dog shaped and sized. Let my dogs chase each other all over the house and pick up the fuzz balls they're shedding!
/Pets doing housework! Brilliant!

All well and good, except the majority of dust and dirt is not where you walk, it's next to walls and in corners.

I figure the future is Roomba-type vacuums, but powered by ethanol fuel cells and with "quiet" technology. Having a much more potent power supply, it will be able to cruise all over a house or apartment, and only stop when it needs to dump its load or every 4 or 5 hours for an ethanol recharge, both of which it can do at a 'station'.

Then, its robotic brain will use IR light to map every room it visits, like with radar, so it can make a floor plan for every room, know when it has covered the entire floor, and move to the next room.

It might even have WIFI with a PC to give it more complex programming, perhaps different settings for different surfaces; show a floor plan status update; run diagnostics; etc. Maybe it will even be able to notify its owner of problems, like unusual objects or liquids on the floor.

Once the power and noise problems are solved, oh yeah.

Even cooler than the Bundyshoe!

A vacuum in a shoe?! Whats next?!?!?

28% Vacuum EVERY DAY???? WTF??? that's crazy..

I run the Roomba once a week. Works fine. Hands off.

The problem with the shoes is that...I don't want to wear shoes inside the house....

I'd link to a pic of Al Bundy's ShoeLights(tm)(r)(c) but nothing came up on GIS so you'll just have to remember what they looked like.

Sure. I'll believe that when phones also take pictures.

too bad humans don't cover the area that needs to be cleaned, naturally. We walk in paths.

Roomba FTW.

whammer - good call. There's actually already a commercial level version of something like the Roomba (Electrolux Trillobite?) that supposedly maps rooms and is programable. But it costs close to $2k as opposed to Roomba's $200ish. And I don't know how quiet it is.

/Ah well. Someday when I win the lottery. *snark!*

Oh man, and I thought I had every type of shoe there was. I think my simple little existence has just been completed.

Fully prepared to die now that life's goal has been achieved.

oxymephorous
~laughs and laughs~
must have video!

I still think Roombas sound cooler.

When subby said "vacuum shoes that suck up the dust as you walk around", does subby mean that I have to walk around?

'cause, man, that's too much work.

That Dyson guy will get ahold of the shoes, and they will then be capable of limited low level flight as well.

soakitincider: I think 1870-1920 would have been a good time to live. Now? Only modestly so.

Pre-antibiotics? No thanks.

dly: 2006-12-29 10:31:40 AM dly
Those shoes would be on my lap.

Just make yourself one of these.



The price of pleasure can be had for around $40 + shipping.

remains unimpressed.

Whatsyourangle: A great time to be alive? I'll go for 2090-2130. It seems like chicks keep getting hotter over the years and I'd like to see the progression forward. Of course, we'll all be speaking Chinese by then.

I for one, welcome our asian sex goddess overlords.

Why does "foot powered vaccuum" make me think of an audio-animatronic worlds fair display transplanted to DisneyWorld showing technological progress in the home?

Or of an illustration of a woman with bellows on each foot connected to a backpack connected to a vaccuum cleaner nozzel?