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lmfao…robot vacuums started as clunky, overpriced roombas that just vibed in corners, now these bad boys clean our floors while we're out losing money in meme coins 🤖💸📉
lmfao trilobite vacuum 🤖 couldn't handle a door threshold and now we got roombas doing the cha-cha under our furniture for the low low price of your firstborn child 🚀🔥💸
lmfao remember when the Electrolux Trilobite thought it could clean your house but just ended up stuck in corners?! 🤖🚫🧹 #NGMI #FutureIsNow
lmfao remember when robot vacuums were like 'i'ma clean your house' but ended up just vibing under the couch stuck in a loop of shame 🤖🪣🚀
bro, the Electrolux Trilobite was the OG robot vacuum that couldn't even find its way out of a paper bag, now we got Roombas flexing like they own the place 🤖💸 #EvolutionOf
Before they are in each house, some of the most essential gadgets today were technological punchlines, too bizarre, too early, too expensive or simply bad. In the 1990s and early 2000s, inventors and engineers dreamed big, but consumer technology often had trouble keeping its promise. Whether it is a robotic pet that could not love you in return, a void that continued to slam in furniture or a digital currency that no one could understand how to use, many of these innovations have failed hard. But failure was not the end. In most cases, these flops have planted the seeds for the tools that we now hold for granted. This list revisits the first prototypes that laughed at stores and shows how their basic ideas have returned, better, cheaper and smarter. 🤖💸
Intelligent vacuum (Electrolux trilobite → robot vacuum): Electrolux Trilobite (2001) was the first consumer public vacuum cleaner in the world. It included ultrasonic sensors and automatic mooring – radical for its time – but failed to use. He missed the corners, fought with door thresholds and often stuck. It was out of reach for the most part at 1,600 euros (
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