This adorable little device looking something like the offspring of EVE and WALL-E is the Mint, a robot mop for your floors similar to the Roomba, but unlike the Roomba, the Mint complies with Jobs’ own requirements for absolute silence in his devices.
Since it lacks a vacuum or spinning brushes, the only noise you’ll hear as the Mint whisks across your floors is the a barely audible squeegeeing.
The tiny robot uses NorthStar Navigation to prevent it from mopping the same spot twice. It costs $250, which doesn’t necessarily beat the alternative — a Polish maid scrubbing your floors in a tank top — but is certainly cheaper in the grand scheme of things than the resulting temptation, and the lawsuits that might follow.
[via Gadget Lab]
