The Singularity cleans my carpet

*I see that, after seven years, somebody has finally bothered to invent a competitor for the only commercially successful domestic robot. You know: the Roomba, that blind hockey puck that bangs into walls.

*I don't mind it much that techie blogs run eager gadget ads rather than actual news copy — gosh, that's what blogs are for! — but "singularity"? That's a singularity a-borning there — a Roomba knockoff with a laser range-finder? This isn't exactly a wildly accelerating exponential ramp ...