Do you hate having to wash the windshield or car windows regularly but want a perfect shine each time you go out for a drive? Well, you can apparently leave the job in capable hands now: robot hands, to be precise. An automatic auto glass cleaning device has just been released for sale in the UK recently, with orders already stacking up for the handy gadget every finicky car owner—or housekeeper would love to have.
The item is called Windoro, and it is being marketed as the first automatic cleaning robot for pane glass or windows. It was actually released last year in Germany, and won high acclaim there, being one of the stars of the Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin, also known as the IFA at the time. In fact, it sold over a thousand units there, and immediately showed that it had great marketing potential.
Now, consumers from Ireland and the UK can order the item from the manufacturer’s website. If you are wondering how this robot works, it is actually quite simple, yet at the same time ingenuous. The Windoro unit, instead of being operated by some sort of pulley system that drags it across the glass after being set up in a complex rig over the area to be cleaned, simplifies the matter of working on the glass surface by attaching to it in itself. The attachment is actually through magnetism.
If you were to use this item to clean your auto glass, you would have to take the two parts of the device—they look like robot or metal versions of the two bread halves of a sandwich—and set them on opposite sides of the same piece or pane of glass. Hence, if you are trying to get it to clean your windshield, you would place one half on the glass from the interior and the other facing it on the exterior. The two clamp together by means of the attraction produced by the Neodymium-type magnets in their bodies. The brilliant part of this is that you can prevent your auto glass from being damaged by modifying the strength of the magnets.
The device has LED lights that help the user figure out how high or low to set magnet intensity, as they flash red when it needs to go down and yellow when it needs to go up. It can only work on auto glass that is within the 5 to 25 mm range in its thickness, but this fits the bill for your typical auto glass measurement anyway, so car owners should not worry about the device being incompatible with their windshields. While UK and Ireland consumers are already welcoming the item on the market, US consumers shall undoubtedly be the same once the gadget hits shores stateside.
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