Here’s the best way to show that you’re a fan of classic arcade games and also like a clean house. Program five Roombas (the spooky robot vacuum that looks like a bathroom scale) and make them think they’re Pac-Man and his four ghost buddies [via Techeblog]:
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JHtX2JwZAY 560×340]The puppet master of these Roombas, Jack Elston, controls Pac-Man on his computer, and the PC transmits the joystick movements to the five Roombas. We better keep this guy away from our other appliances — he might make our toaster think it’s actually Mega Man.