Mint Cleaner- 01.07.10
It’s always hard after a full day of racing around the show floor at CES to decide what to share first - as my body wants to dive in a bubble bath and my brain is getting ready for drinks, dinner, etc. SO, don’t laugh, but the first thing i have been craving since i saw the adorable minimalist mod booth… Mint: Automatic Floor Cleaner… think swiffer meets roomba, but with a design treatment by Yves Behar’s Fuseproject… and hyperintelligent guts by Evolution Robotics, Inc. This feels like my Method oMop’s futuristic robotic relative. So yes, stunning, wicked smart, cleans with popular we/dry cleaning cloths (think swiffer/pledge/etc), AND charges upright!
Also fun? Besides the booth design and beautifully designed product? They throw coffee on the floor… let it dry a little… then demo the machines. And i love how versatile the concept is, you can use any cloth ~ and the panel that they attach to is MAGNETIC! More pictures of the details and a video on the next page from my CES discovery of Mint! (It officially launched at midnight!)
Basically you wrap the cloth around, and press the sides into the teeth to hold it in… then just let it magnetically snap back on to the base!
Recently purchased a Mint for my one story house. The sales person on the phone told me all the great things that Mint could do. I asked if Mint would be able to clean my one story house (approximately 1,800 s.f.) with the Mint and one cube while I left for the day. They said that was what it was designed to do! The only time that you need another Mint or box is if you had more than a one story house. I thought that was great. Super excited to receive my Mint.
Mint arrives and found out that it only cleans up to 300 s.f. while I am away and does not do the entire first floor. I also found this out by calling the supervisor at Mint. The information about the 300 s.f. is not in the manual or the FAQ on the website. I was also informed by the sales person that is why there is a special to purchase another Mint for a discounted price…since you will need at least two of them if you want to do what the advertisement of the Mint leads you to believe it will do.
Extremely disappointed at the lack of truth in advertising for this product and the lack of care from the management about the unethical business practice of trying to increase revenue without accurately potraying what Mint is capable of and unable to do. I think if they want to stick around this industry that they really need to do a better of job of not trying to feel like they just “conned” the consumer.
----- Michael 23.08.10 13:36