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I have a robot vacuum, but I never use it because in order to get it to clean

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my house, I have to first clean my house. See, the problem is I have really

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disgusting roommates. They're my children. And they just leave their

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clothes and their toys everywhere. And I also have pets. I recently had an

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elderly dog. She she's gone now. But these pets, they also make messes that I

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don't trust the robot vacuum to uh handle properly. So, the result is that

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I have a robot vacuum that I just never use uh because it's not smart enough.

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But Narwhal is sponsoring this video to show off their much better. And I'm not

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just saying that Flow vacuum unlike any vacuum I've ever had. It has the mopping

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thing. Like there's water tanks and all sorts of stuff. I'll show you in a second. But on top of that, well, let me

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just show you with photos. I used this thing once already. Spoiler alert. And I

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made these little test piles of Lego to see if it would go through them. I

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thought it would avoid the big pile but go right through the small like

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minefield, but it actually avoided both.

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And not only that, I did the classic baby sock test cuz that's the thing I'm

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always pulling out of the roller on my other vacuum and it left that baby sock

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there. Anything that allows me to be lazier, I will pay for. So, let's take a

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tour of this thing. These are the brushes. I think they clip onto the vacuum. We'll see that in a second. It

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comes with some literature, uh, a quick start guide, a user guide, some safety

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stuff, very important, and a power cable for this to plug into the wall. It has

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to be said, this dock is a bit of a presence. It's pretty big. It has

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handles on the side, but that's because inside it has containers. I think you

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put clean water in one and dirty water comes out the other one. I guess we're

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not done the unboxing. There's stuff in here. Specially formulated floor

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cleaner. one of these. Unlike my old obsolete

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vacuum, uh where I it has a dust bin on board that I like pull off and dump out

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in the garbage can. This one returns to the dock and the dust bin gets emptied

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into a central bag that you only have to empty every sometimes. And actually, it

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came with two of those bags.

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That's where it goes.

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Now that there's some water in here, let me get you excited about this thing's

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damn mopping feature. I'm not kidding. I'm excited. This is the vacuum itself.

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You can see it doesn't have a little like hat on top for cameras and sensors

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and stuff. It's nice and flat, integrated, can go under stuff nicely.

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And giant mop. Finishing the assembly.

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It comes with these little flicky beans.

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So, the reason this is so cool and different is that it doesn't just go

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into its space station, get the mop wet, and then drag that sucker all over your

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house. Instead, it actually has onboard water tanks, a clean one and a dirty

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one. It warms that water and sprays it continuously on the mop. So, you ever

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like go to a hotel and they have that little pancake converter belt or you put

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toast on the thing and you watch the toast go by the heating element and then

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flops down. It's kind of like that. This mop is rotating this way. When it's

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exposed like this, it's cleaning your floor with fresh, clean, warmed water.

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113° F, I think. Uh, and then when it's rotating over here, what's happening is

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it's getting sprayed and then going under this like scraper that's taking

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off all the dirty water and putting into a dirty water tank. So, you get clean

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mop in contact with the floor all the time with clean water. And then you

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don't even have to empty those water tanks. It goes back to its station and

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that water goes in here. And you can see how dirty it is with this clear bucket.

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And that's not all. When it goes back to the base station after mopping, the base

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station actually cleans the mop even better. three different temperatures.

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So, it takes oil off and everything. 176° F. Keeping that mop fresh. That's

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how Linus says it. All right, let's take a little tour of this area while we're

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here. I recognize this. This is the brush. This is the part that I'm always

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pulling out on my other vacuum and getting a steak knife and cutting hair

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out of, but they say that won't be a problem with this because of the way the

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brush is designed and the way the air flows. And there's these side brush

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things. They call it a dual flow tangle-free system. I'm skeptical. We'll

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take their word for it for now. I bet you have to cut a little bit of hair out

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of there sometimes, right? It's a mop, not a miracle worker. Look at this

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clearance. These puppies pop up and the thing just coast to get over like door

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thresholds up to 1.6 in high. Yeah, I

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could get over my sliding glass door and just go and vacuum my balcony if I

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wanted to. And these aren't the only things that go up and down. When it goes onto a rug or carpet, the mop will raise

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so that it doesn't get your carpet wet. And this brush cover, this thing goes

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down so it's like clamping onto the carpet to make better suction and just

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brush like right against that sucker. Why am I so into this? I guess it should

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show you the top too. Like it does have buttons on the top. It's basically a

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rocker. There is a power button. Oo, there are so many peels on this thing.

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There's a home button. Oh, okay. That

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comes off without any levers or anything. There's this peel. Oh, good

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thing we got that out of there. And underneath the cover, we have an explanation of all those parts that I

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pulled out earlier that I didn't know what they were. So, this is the dust bin, which you can manually pull out.

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And there you can see this is the insert bin that I had an extra for. And this is

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the filter that I had an extra for. Nice to have extras.

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I'm trying not to like anthropomorphize this thing too much, but kind of looks

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like a face on the front, and that's cuz it has these two cameras, which are key

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for its object detection thing. It has this AI chip in it that allows it to

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recognize over 200 normal household objects uh like that baby sock and go

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around. And the way that it can easily go around and the way that it can look at those objects is with these two

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cameras. They say it gives a human-like vision like stereoscopic vision. So it

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can see how far away it is from stuff. So when it sees something like a baby

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sock that it doesn't want to run over or poo, it can get close to it but not hit

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it. And actually in the case of poo, it doesn't even get close. It stays 15 cm

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away, which is probably a good call. I actually have had a robot vacuum poo

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smearing crap catastrophe before. I caught it early, but

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Jesus. All right, I'm going to show you all the cool options you get when you press play on this thing. That requires

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me to show you the app a little bit. So, you select your device. I know I'm

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coming from like ancient technology here, but this map is so much better. In

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the previous vacuum, I I had, you had to like create zones yourself. Like, you

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had to draw on the map. this thing. It mapped the place and then it knows what

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it's looking at. It even drew little couches and crap on here and it does its

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own labels like, "Oh, this is a living room. This is a master bedroom." And

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then those are zones. So then you can just tell it to to do those. It's just

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way more automatic. And when you go to actually run it, you get the option of vacuum, mop, vacuum, and mop, vacuum,

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then mop. I have vacuumed before, so I want to just check out the mopping

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action. So let's do it. Hit that. Hit it. Is a play button. There you go. The

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whole house will be cleaned if no zone is designated. Detected heavily soiled

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areas. You're still in there. Detect long neglected areas.

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And check this out. But he even recognizes like little places where you

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have speaker wire or chargers or cables uh somewhere in your house. That's one

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of the objects it recognizes so as to not, you know, get them caught in the brush and drag them all over the house,

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which has happened to me before. Oh,

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look who's here.

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I'm going to set it to vacuum and mop at the same time and just watch it work.

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Look how it moves it around. I think it did that cuz it's trying to get right in

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the corner, which is one of the things it says it can do. It moves the mop out

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of the way. And those little brushes that we installed earlier, since they reach outside of the circumference of

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the circle, they can actually reach little corners like that. Zang.

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>> Oh, look at the mop moving. Yeah. That's great. >> Look at it edging.

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Oh,

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I was curious to know how wet the snail trail is. Like, would I step on that

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with my socks or whatever? And the answer is yeah, it it's damp to the

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touch, but even now after just rubbing my hand, like dry now. So, good to go.

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Good to walk on. But can it navigate our

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wire racrack? Imagine it just goes home. Nope.

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Well, that was quick. >> Made a fool of me. So, thanks to Narwhal

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for sponsoring this video and showing off their Flow vacuum, which has an MSRP

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of $1,500, or has a launch price of

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$1,100, or you can pay $100 more and get

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this version where the the base station gets plumbed into the wall, so you have

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to mess with the water a lot less. That is only available in select regions