Friday, June 20, 2008

iRobot zapped by Olbermann, who gets it wrong

MSNBC host Keith Olbermann tagged iRobot as the third worst in his "worst person in the world" series June 28 for its hookup with the Taser Corporation. Olbermann, however, didn't realize that the Taser was not for the Roomba but for the military robot PackBot, and this transcript misspells iRobot as i-Robot. Oh well. You know they say there's no such thing as bad publicity. However, I bet it doesn't take long before somebody attaches a Taser to an iRobot Create.
Here's the clip:

The bronze to the I-Robot corporation. It makes those little automatic vacuum cleaners that scoot around your floor, not really cleaning your floor, but giving you the sense that you‘re not utterly lazy about vacuuming. I-Robot has now teamed with a stun-gun manufacturer to make a weapon for the Pentagon and the police. They stuck a Taser on their robotic automaton. That‘s right, your Roomba can now shock you into submission.

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