Entertaining Appliances!

We all know that mundane household task's can be boring, for example, doing that bit of dusting or washing up that you've been putting off for day's, or the vacuuming. wouldn't it be great if you could somehow turn those mundane everyday task's into something fun?

Well, the mundane task that I've decided to focus on, is vacuuming, it's a job that I have a particular hatred for, and I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who would whole-heartedly agree that it's a very laborious and boring job. When I approached looking at how to make this more fun, the first thing I had to think of is why is it boring? Well I came to some conclusions:

1. It's monotonous - All your doing is pushing the thing around the room.
2. Vacuum's generally look boring. - Vacuum's aren't exactly fun things to look at.
3. It's just not fun! - Nuff said.

So, what could you do to make it more entertaining? Well, let's tackle the first problem,
pushing the silly thing around.

So how could you make pushing something around fun? Well for a start off, don't push it around at all! My initial idea was to hook up a remote control device to it, meaning that you could sit from the comfort of your chair, driving the thing exactly like a remote control car! You might be thinking, "Hasn't that already been done?" well I found out it has, but I'm proposing much more than just that, my idea is to also include a timer into the hoover, so that you and your flatmates or family can have time-trial races, and see who can get the best time hoovering the entire room. It will store your best time for each room, and your average times overall in your controller that will be displayed on an LCD screen, so you can try and improve on it every time you need to hoover up!

There is also the problem of it looking boring, vacuum cleaner's just aren't generally aesthetically fun things to look at, so the idea that I had was to have custom skins for your little hoovering buddy, for example a mouse, complete with tail and ear's, or a dust eating ravenous monster, or even a classic car design the possibilities would be endless, new ones could be brought out all the time, as there will be easy to use fittings to attach each one.

It will also be possible to have more than one running at the same time, because there will be a switch on the controller, for up to four different radio frequencies, meaning you can have a radio controlled vacuum races in your living room!

So in conclusion my idea is:
1.Radio controlled hoover.
2.Inbuilt timing device, with - best time and average time, displayed on an LCD display on the controller.
3.Enabling more than one to run at once, by being able to choose from four radio frequencies.