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...smart enough to avoid steps or other kinds of drops, and what's nice is that it won't cross any boundary that's over three millimeters high. Chances are, the Scooba will respect a door jamb or other low boundary separating your kitchen and bathrooms from the rest of the house. If not, the kit comes with a Virtual Wall that creates an invisible border that the Scooba will not pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: iRobot Scooba Floor-Washing Robot | 12/7/2005 | See Source »

...clubs,” says Fox member Daniel T. Erickson ’05.“Who wouldn’t want to be in a club with such humble guys?” Then, Erickson, detecting the faintly audible whisper of an envelope passing under a door jamb, turned and lunged at what appeared to be a punch invitation to the Fly, only to discover that it was in fact the foreclosure notice on the Fox’s house...

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Gossip Guy | 10/16/2003 | See Source »

...business about how to build a computerized mousetrap. These opposite life-styles would give me circuit overload. My tweeters would burn out and my only insulation would be my bedroom door, which remained closed for most of my life. I had to put towels under the jamb so I couldn't hear the classical music and the computer logic. My bedroom was like all the rooms of all the kids in all the movies I've been a part of. It was a compost heap of everything I never put away. It's still that way today. Gravity undresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Autobiography of Peter Pan | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...third son, Frederick Carlton Lewis, was slower in developing distinctive tastes and style, and just plain slower in developing. Though he is more than two years older than Kid Sister Carol, she quickly shot past him in height and bearing. Pointing to the indisputable calibrations of an upstairs door jamb, she assigned him the nickname "Shorty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: No Limit to What He Can Do | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

Chuck Lumley (Henry Winkler) is a human fire hydrant for the mad dogs of Manhattan. Delivery boys smear mustard on his door jamb. Sex with his fiancée, a compulsive eater, is a quick kiss between bites of Mallomars. And his new partner on the night shift at the city morgue. Bill Blazejowski (Michael Keaton), is trouble: a pin wheel of sputtering ideas, a motormouth that roared. Out of desperation and a growing fondness for the girl next door (Shelley Long), Chuck devises a scheme that will make them all rich: he and Billy will act as "business agents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Slaphappy | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

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