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LEGO Roomba Sweeps Bricks off the Floor

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You know you’re a LEGO fanatic when you have to build a sweeper out of LEGO just to clean all of the other LEGO pieces off your floor. The LEGO Rumba is just such a device. It’s part street sweeper, part dump truck, all awesome.

The Brick Wall’s sweeper is made of LEGO Technic pieces and it’s designed to clean up their room so they don’t step on any of those pointy bricks. It has an arm with a claw that can be remotely operated to pick up larger pieces, and a collection bin that gets emptied dump truck style when it’s full.

It seems to work pretty well, and that arm can pick up some very large pieces. If anyone out there is thinking about building a large LEGO city, you’re gonna want this thing to roam the streets, cleaning them up and picking up plastic trash from the curb. So I guess you’ll need a LEGO landfill too.

LEGO really needs to sell this to keep all of our feet safe. There’s nothing worse than stepping on LEGO pieces. Owie! This should be a mandatory accessory whenever a kid gets a LEGO set.

[via Laughing Squid via Geekologie]

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The Cyclist Sweeper-Upper

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The broom wagon, or “voibure balai” as it is known in France, is a broom-adorned van that sweeps up straggling riders in the Tour de France. This grim reaper of the race has gone largely unchanged over the years which inspired designers Florian Mack and Sebastian Russ to take a stab at imagining a better bike-and-people-picker-upper!

Simply called the Sweeper, it not only picks up riders but provides them with a place to rest and regenerate in the back of the vehicle. Unlike the intimidating reputation of the broom wagon, the Sweeper serves as a sanctuary for suffering riders who can rejoin the race later. Its missing-midsection is purposefully designed for a better way to transport the delicate bicycles – something very important for riders who’s machines can be worth upwards of $10,000. Rather than laid down in the back of a van, the bikes are suspended and safely kept out of harms way.

Designer: Florian Mack & Sebastian Russ

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OCD Street Sweeper

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The X-CAV street sweeper eliminates the need for multiple machines of different size to do the same job. To adapt to any size street, the undercarriage parallel to the cleaning unit can be extended from 140cm to 300cm. The combination of horizontally and vertically rotating brushes ensures an optimal cleaning coverage at the curbstone in addition to under the sweeper itself. The best advancement however, is an extendable vacuum arm for detailed cleaning under park benches, between cars and other tight spaces. See it in action!

Designer: Carlos Schreib

X-CAV – Intelligent Street Sweeper from Carlos Schreib on Vimeo.

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All-in-One City Sweeper Concept Truck Cleans Streets, Plows Snow, and Hauls Garbage Away

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Everything’s multi-functional these days, so why not extend that concept to vehicles? More specifically, to street-cleaning trucks? I’m sure you’ve seen sweepers at work on your street, but they’re kind of wasteful, if you think about it. For one, they’re just parked in the garage when winter comes along. You won’t be sweeping up the streets the whole day either.

Designer Michał Markiewicz took all this into consideration and eventually came up with the Multifunctional City Sweeper concept.

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He basically combined the three functions I mentioned above to make this the city sweeper truck that’s fit for all occasions and multiple uses. It’s a sweeper truck in the morning, a garbage truck in the afternoon, and a snow plow during winter. It’s basically got everything covered – and all in one truck.

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Save on gas, save on space, save on government resources, and save the environment. Pretty cool, huh?

[via Yanko Design]