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humor Cloud Gadget 2026-04-16

High-Tech Pool Cleaner: Finally, A Way to Prove You've Out-Vacuumed Your Neighbor.

This overpriced, sophisticated little bot is basically a fancy robot nanny for your crystal-clear resort pool. Newly arrived gentrifying 'digital nomads' are buying them because their Instagram feeds demand a visible commitment to excessive domestic maintenance. Having one signals that your understanding of leisure is so advanced that you can afford to automate the mundane. Functionally, it will fail spectacularly due to the persistent, highly acidic drip of questionable septic runoff into the pool every time the tide comes in.

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