Your robot vacuum can now catch you cheating — no joke. I heard about a guy in Taiwan who got suspicious (toothbrush at the vacation house, weird garage footage), then opened the Roomba app and watched his wife with another man — not cleaning, just… you know. He saved the video, sued, and won about $16,000 from his wife and her lover. But plot twist: he got nailed too for recording private activity without consent and got five months in jail plus a fine. So yeah, everyone lost except the vacuum, which just went back to finding crumbs while our smart devices quietly collect receipts for the court.
Takeaways:
I laughed that a robot vacuum’s live cam basically exposed an affair in Taiwan, wild proof rolling on wheels.
We hear the husband used the footage in court and won about $16,000, which is both crazy and kinda satisfying.
But here's the kicker: I also note he got five months in jail and a fine for recording private activity without consent.
I hate to say it, but smart devices like vacuums can be subpoenaed, so our gadgets know way more than we think.
We even riffed on a fake ad for 'Goomba'—a vacuum that won't snitch—because of course we did.
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Speaker A:
It's haystack.
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And apparently, your robot vacuum can now catch you cheating.
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And I don't mean by finding somebody else's sock under the bed.
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No.
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In.
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In Taiwan, this man suspected that his wife was having an affair.
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He had some clues, had seen a toothbrush at their vacation home that wasn't his.
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Saw some guy in a garage on camera.
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Then one day, he opens up the app for their robot vacuum.
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The robot vacuum has a live camera.
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And there he was seeing his wife with the other guy, and they weren't.
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They weren't cleaning.
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That's.
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It's unbelievable.
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Can.
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Can you imagine getting ch.
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Caught cheating because the Roomba rolled into the wrong room?
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I mean, he recorded the footage, took it to court, won about $16,000 from his wife and her lover.
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So the robot vacuum basically became a private investig.
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Investigator with brushes.
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But here's the twist.
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The husband got in trouble, too, because he recorded private activity without consent.
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He was given five months in jail and a fine.
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So literally everybody lost except for the vacuum.
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The wife got caught, the boyfriend got sued, the husband got convicted, and the Roomba just went back to work.
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Like, yeah, found some crumbs under the couch.
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This is the future.
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Your smart devices don't just clean your house anymore.
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They know things.
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Well, until you upgrade to the ones that wink, wink, don't know anything.
Speaker B:
Smart devices like robot vacuum cleaners are equipped with cameras and microphones, and they can be subpoenaed in a court of law.
Speaker B:
Don't let Roomba rat you out.
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Get the vacuum that won't snitch.
Speaker B:
Get Goomba.
Speaker C:
Hey, Goomba, did a woman come over while I was at work yesterday?
Speaker D:
Oh, no, I ain't seen nothing like that.
Speaker D:
Your husband's a good fella.
Speaker D:
Forget about it.
Speaker B:
Goomba covers the entire house.
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And covers for you, too.
Speaker E:
Hey, Goomba, I saw on the ring camera that the mailman came inside.
Speaker D:
Aw, it's nothing to worry about.
Speaker D:
He just came inside to, you know, deliver a package to your wife.
Speaker E:
Oh, God.
Speaker D:
Yeah, that's what she was saying, but you didn't hear that from me.
Speaker B:
When you need a mess cleaned up.
Speaker B:
Get Goomba.
Speaker D:
Hey, nice house you got here.
Speaker D:
It'd be a real shame if something would have happened to it.
