The Eureka AirSpeed Zuum proved great for cleaning carpeting, getting out pet hair and deep-down dirt. However, it's air suction at the hose was the lowest of any vacuum in our test. There's no switch to turn off the rotating brush, unfortunately, it scattered some debris left on hardwood floors.Measured Energy Usage: 0.01 kwh/minManufacturer's Warranty: 2 year limitedWeight: 13.6 pounds Worked well at removing deep down dirt from carpet Easy to attach the tools Very low air performance when using the attachment toolsAs most of our followers know I am a lazy geek. I try to get the gumption to get up and about, but after about 15 hours into No Man’s Sky last thing I want to get up and do is sweep the floor. Hello my new favorite little pet….the ILife A4 Robotic Vacuum Cleaner. Our friends over at GearBest heard about my laziness and came to the rescue by sending me the robot to help. Now we all have wanted a robotic vacuum at one time or another. Most decide against it due to the heavy cost but others say no due to bad reviews they have heard from friends or even worse…the internet.

I have seen some of these vacuums reach upwards of $400…ouch. best vacuum cleaner for home use in uaeFor that price I can handle some crumbs on the floor, or maybe even get up and clean it myself. canister vacuum carpet cleanerGearBest knows these issues and that’s why at under $200 (at time of writing on discount for $130.69) you cannot go wrong here.eureka vacuum cleaner india So let’s be clear about what my floors handle on any given day. I have three cats…they have hair, I have a 65lbs American Bulldog that has these little splinter like white hairs that seem to stick to everything, I also have two little girls…they have hair, and then there is my wife who somehow has the ability to lose all her hair every single day and wake up with a full head of hair again…at least that is what it looks like on the floors and drains.

Between animals, kids, and crumbs my floors are a wreck MULTIPLE times a day. The whole first floor of my house is all wood laminate flooring so every ounce of anything shows up. Now with all of that said I have been very skeptical about anything as I would not see a little robot being able to handle this chore. Upon opening, I let (Steve) that is what my daughter named it, charge for about two hours on its base station. I grabbed the remote (yes there is a remote) and hit clean. I sat back, ready to help this little guy out of the tight spots under the table. Not only did it not get stuck but cleaned the whole kitchen, went into the playroom and did that floor, then went all the way around through the hallway making a full circle of cleaned goodness and back to its base. Now this course took about two hours total and covered almost 750 sq feet. I of course had thrown a little crumage on the ground seeing if it would handle it…. Upon inspecting the floor after the first cleaning I could not believe how awesome the ILife A4 did on my floors.

It handled all of the hair and the crumbs from the daughters’ dinner and all of the pet hair from the day. I opened up the debris catcher and although I make jokes about my floor (which really does not look that bad) I could not believe it WAS FULL OF STUFF. From there on I was a believer in Steve. I could not wait to show my wife when she woke up. Upon her awakening I not only showed her the cleaning damage but decided to run the vacuum again. Over the course of the night and the morning….the catcher was filled with a little less stuff but still cleaned a ton more. Check out our Facebook live video we did while it was cleaning: After a month of having Steve the ILife A4 has become part of the family. My daughter cleans up for him every night so he can get his food (that’s what we call it cleaning) and we run it twice a day and it has not failed us once. One thing I will tell you is make sure that you pick up the robot and pull any long hairs out of the brushes that might cause it to get stuck or over-heat.

For those of you wondering we do have two rugs in the kids playroom and Steve handles it with no issues. The A4 has quite a few features as well, like being able to spot clean or just do edges. It handles obstacles well and 99% of the time has found its way back to the base station. I would say compared to some of the more expensive vacuum robots out there this has to be the best that I have tried. Good thing is it is a fraction of the cost. I can say wow and that my family and I love it and have recommended it a million times when we have guest or kids parties. Special big shout out to one of our favorite electronics manufacturer GearBest for coming to the rescue for our household chores! Hit the link here to go grab yours now and put that damn broom away already! Many of you long time readers know that I’m quite the ear bud fanatic. Did you think you would never run out of the space in your iPhone? Class leading mapping & location technology Cleans large rooms quickly & efficiently

Equally comfortable on all surfaces Charges & returns to exactly where it left off Aged design & cheap looking build materials Doesn't always get into nooks & crannies In line with rivals, but still expensive SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) technology Designed to collect pet hair & dust 33 x 32.7 x 10.1cm, 5.9Kg IntroductionEverywhere you look in the tech sector right now complaints are building that we are in a period of evolution not revolution, nothing really excites us anymore. Arguably the same can be said of the new Neato 'XV-25' robot vacuum, a follow up to the Neato XV-15, but - much as the iPhone 3G was to the original iPhone - it feels like the mass market realisation of a revolutionary initial breakthrough.Neato XV-25 DesignNone of which you'll expect when you take the Neato XV-25 (called the XV-21 in the US) out the box. The Neato XV-25 is the spitting image of the XV-15. It retains the ingenious arch shape (the corners are for corners, the curves allow it to turn anywhere) and the build materials are still a little cheap looking with a fetish for plastics and two tone colour finishes.

It looks like a Super Nintendo was squashed under the heel of a giant horse.This is a problem. Compared to the slick lines and finish of the iRobot Roomba 780, for example, the Neato XV-25 looks like the brandless knock-off you'd find in an unwanted catalogue dropped through your mailbox. When you get to the technology inside, however, this is a huge disservice. The same can be said of the charger which, while conveniently flat for positioning against a wall, is essentially a hollow plastic shell which houses a power brick.There are things to like, however: the inclusion of an LCD display makes programming daily and weekly cleaning schedules a doddle – especially compared to the Roomba range which mysteriously continues to ignore them – and removing dirt is simple: just pull out the collection box (indicated by the red handle). At 33 x 32.7 x 10.1cm the Neato XV-25 is also fairly compact, though it is heavy at 5.9Kg – something you'll notice when it runs over hard floors.Neato XV-25 FeaturesLove or hate the look of the Neato XV-25, however, what has come to define Neato's robot vacuums (and redefine them in the sector) is how they go about their business.

Neato was only formed back in 2009 and didn't release its first product until 2010, but what got investors hot under the collar was the SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) technology at their heart. Unlike so-called 'bump bots' which seem to take an almost random approach to cleaning, SLAM robot vacuums calculate their every move.What SLAM does is build maps of an environment while simultaneously keeping track of its location within them. The theory is it almost never needs to bump into any surface and it will clean logically: first by tracing the corners, then cleaning the rest of the room in long strips. The whole approach is somewhat akin to how a farmer ploughs a field. smavco Bundle 205-0001, 945-0005, 945-0006 Battery Neato XV-12, XV-14, XV-15, XV-21, XV-25 All-floor Robotic Vacuum Cleaner Plus Short Flat Micro USB Cable, 3500 mAh December 3, 2012, 9:26 am I hope that Neato has resolved the issue of the wheel plastic breaking that they faced with the neato xv-11 model.

April 28, 2013, 3:43 am I've had a Roomba 560 for the last 3 years and have absolutely LOVED it. The amount of dust that it picked up from what appeared to be a clean floor everyday always amazed me. But, when I tripped across an article about NEATO I got intrigued by what was described as the precision of its navigation system because while love my Roomba, its random banging around was beginning to irritate me. Sometimes it would clean the same room 3X and miss entire areas of the house and when it bangs into stuff it does so with a particular harshness. I overlooked all that justifying that is it after all a just crude robot which does a good job of sucking stuff up.I bought a NEATO XV-21 to try out and immediately said goodbye to my beloved Roomba who quickly became a distant memory.NAVIGATION: The Neato's Navigation in a word is "Phenomenal" It's precise, never cleans the same area twice and with the firmware upgrade, the navigation around corners is stunningly good. Because it's so good at knowing where it is, where it was, and where it needs to go it cleans the whole house in about 3/4 of the time Roomba used to cover the same spots twice.

NOISE: The only concern I had with making this purchase was the reported noise volume of the Neato. I read lots of posts, reviews and watched a ton of YouTube Vids. Some even compared Roomba to Neato and all of them showed Neato being slightly more noisy but it was just marginal. I watch one Vid that showed Roomba at 78 Decibels and Neato at 83. The story that none of that data can tell is what kind of noise it is. The Roomba to me was always LOUD. Now that I've got NEATO, Roomba was WAY LOUDER. Roomba has really noisy mechanical mechanical. The motors in the wheels are produce really irritating and loud whining noise in addition to the vacuuming sounds - but I kind of put up with it jutifying that it was part of the package and that it needed these motors to do its job. The NEATO on the other hand does generate noise but it is a much softer noise - it's the sound of airflow socking in and blowing out but the motors that drive it are far quieter. On a decibel meter it may show a higher decibel count but my wife and I both agree that the NEATO is far quieted and the sound it does produce is far more ear friendly.

Overall, my wife and I both agree this was a very worthwile upgrade so put ROOMBA online and she was sold in minutes. I can't imagine selling our now found friend NEATO Mosquito who we have nick named "Skitter". September 14, 2013, 11:30 am I have an xv 21 neto vac which i now hate the stupid thing quit after ramming its way out from under a desk and now the display is out and this is the second machine iv'e had and it started acting strange and bumping into chairs and getting stuck in open places for no reason I'm taking this thing back to bed bath and beyond maybe they will replace it a waste of good money i could have used to it pay for a rainbow vac which is the best .. January 25, 2014, 8:20 am February 11, 2014, 9:34 am I love my Neato XV21 and am now only more blown away by Neato's service. Elsie (what we lovingly call our XV21) started giving me errors and after a few e-mails, Neato has replaced my old model with the new XV25. Keep in mind I live in South Africa.

They have no stores here. They simply listened (well read) my problem, we tried an option or two and then they shipped me a replacement. I was totally blown out of the water when I did not receive an XV21, but the upgraded XV25. No cost, I just mail the old one back in a pre-paid courier box. I did extensive research on robotic vacs - living on a farm with 2 German Sheppard, two cats and three horses added with the (ab)normal amount of dust of a farm . . . well I needed something with sucking power :) , not just something to move the dust and pet-hair around. This seemed the only viable option in all the reviews. The Neato has more than satisfied my expectations. One of the best features is that it's design is so simple. Nothing can really break with normal use and nothing can get stuck in complicated places, like pethair. It works, it returns to it's station and recharges, then goes on where it left off. It takes up to 3 recharges to clean my house. (We live in a renovated barn, which is huge)