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Vacuum goggles

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A pair of VR goggles that facilitate vacuuming the house, they display a normal view of your dirty carpet with the aid of two small cameras mounted over the eyes. While vacuuming, the head of the vacuum cleaner digitally paints the floor in your goggle view, so you know where you have cleaned and where you missed a spot.
simonj, May 05 2009

21 Quest, yesterday http://upload.wikim...yLoganshakenvac.jpg
[calum, May 05 2009]

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       // You can't tell if you've missed a spot?   

       ask my wife about that
simonj, May 05 2009
  

       <crickets chirping> so anyway...
simonj, May 05 2009
  

       I rather like the idea with the camera attached to goggles. I get a very sci-fi-ish feel to it. And the visual would be cool too. Wear your astronaut suit and have a go at the floor. Make it fun instead of trugdery. Scare your soon to be ex-spouse when they come home from work early.   

       I give it a + yes bun.
blissmiss, May 05 2009
  

       The alternative is to affix to the rear of your vaccum a bush through which drips, from the handy reservoir, a steady flow of white emulsion, such that all areas over which the vacuum has travelled are coated in a fresh layer of brilliant "Arctic Spume".
calum, May 05 2009
  

       So there is this system that can extract 'floor' from a natural 3D scene, pinpoint the current location, and paint a representation of the scene with a color.   

       This is essentially a robotic vacuum, with the motor and random-walk generator being you...
loonquawl, May 05 2009
  

       I like it because sometimes after I put the vacuum cleaner away, I see a spot I missed! +
xandram, May 05 2009
  

       //The alternative is to affix to the rear of your vaccum a bush through which drips, from the handy reservoir, a steady flow of white emulsion, such that all areas over which the vacuum has travelled are coated in a fresh layer of brilliant "Arctic Spume".//   

       As a second order alternative, cover the entire area with white powder and vacuum it up. (Capture cleaning powder, for instance.)
ldischler, May 05 2009
  

       [calum], sp. "brush"
calum, May 05 2009
  

       No, I think [calum] actually intended that you attach a bush to the rear of your vacuum cleaner. It gives that outdoors, herby smell to the room.
normzone, May 05 2009
  

       And hides your nudity.
blissmiss, May 05 2009
  

       From the title, I was hoping this device would form an airtight seal around the upper face, and gently remove foreign particles from one's eyes.
ed, May 06 2009
  

       From the title, I was hoping this device would form an airtight seal around the upper face with a vacuum within, thereby causing the eyeballs to protrude past the eyelids, thus dispensing with the invasive clips otherwise necessary for the Ludovico technique.
bungston, May 06 2009
  

       rename to AR vacuum goggles for my bun
Voice, Apr 25 2010
  

       //Make it fun instead of trugdery// Yes. [+]
mouseposture, Apr 25 2010
  

       Just take a bag of sequins and explode it in the centre of the room. Then vacuum. Any areas you have missed will be indicated by the presence of sequins.
MaxwellBuchanan, Apr 25 2010
  

       To save buying sequins, powder, or anything, just take the dust bag out of the hoover, and spread its contents over the floor before hoovering as normal. This will also save on having to empty the dust bag outside.
pocmloc, Apr 25 2010
  
      
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