20-something entrepreneur. Lives in San Francisco. Takes photos.
House 2.0 has a Roomba (vacuum robot) named Rani. Kara and Amit made a video about her adventures cleaning up the streets of New York City.
See it on Vimeo
If you like this, check out Amit & Kara’s Photojojo!
Neat! Rani’s on the MAKE: Blog! and Gothamist’s Video of the Day!
Update: And now Gizmodo, too!
Posted on 26 April '06 by Amit Gupta, under General, Technology.
#1 Posted by dave (26.04.06 at 18:12 )
great video! hope you got the cup cakes for free for advertising the much overrated Magnolia!
they’re good… but just cupcakes c’mon (I’m French and I know pastries)
good work!
#2 Posted by steve cooley (26.04.06 at 18:54 )
Two, no six, no twelve, BAKERS DOZEN!
#3 Posted by Matt Williamson (27.04.06 at 00:21 )
That was excellent!
#4 Posted by bill (27.04.06 at 09:19 )
THey should get the Scheduler upgrade to put that thing to work while they are out. This is how it starts, we have all seen The Terminator. They start doing what they want, being lazy, going out on the town then one day BAM! The humans are all slaves or energy pods or just plain dead… so yeah… they should get the Scheduler upgrade.
#5 Posted by Jason (27.04.06 at 13:03 )
Great video! You are going to get slammed with traffic if you’re not careful. :)
#6 Posted by Ian (27.04.06 at 16:55 )
You made Gothamist today too! Great clip!
http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2006/04/27/video_of_the_da_18.php
Love the bunny project too!
#7 Posted by Needcoffee.com (01.05.06 at 09:00 )
I Am the Modren Man
As the world population declines in the face of “Have a kid? What, and make the Roomba feel threatened?”, we’ve seen the little guys playing pool and getting dressed up. Now here’s one that’s an action movie star. Egad.
Direct link for the …
#8 Posted by Needcoffee.com » I Am the Modren Man (01.05.06 at 09:03 )
[...] As the world population declines in the face of “Have a kid? What, and make the Roomba feel threatened?”, we’ve seen the little guys playing pool and getting dressed up. Now here’s one that’s an action movie star. Egad. [...]
#9 Posted by Neatorama » Blog Archive » Kara and Amit’s Roomba. (01.05.06 at 10:28 )
[...] Link (Thanks Amit Gupta!) [...]
#10 Posted by Amit Deshpande (03.05.06 at 08:30 )
Oh Guys! This rocks! Slick Editing. I like the swingin’ robo part! LOL~
#11 Posted by Robert (24.02.07 at 10:54 )
This was great and funny. Keep up the good work!
Amit's an entrepreneur.
His latest project is Photojojo. If you like photography, you will like Photojojo.
Before Photojojo, he was a founder of The Daily Jolt, an online community on 100 college campuses, helped create a non-profit called ChangeThis with Seth Godin, and brought the technology un-conference BarCamp to NYC. He also started a weekly casual coworking session called Jelly.
And he's consulted for companies such as Pearson, Apple, and Creative Good and co-authored The Big Moo, a WSJ best-seller, with Seth Godin, Malcolm Gladwell, Guy Kawasaki, Tom Peters, and others.
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