Roofus is a radio-controlled snow plow designed to remove snow from roofs of buildings (thus, the name Roof-us) where it would be particularly risky for a human to do so.  Personally, I would like to employ it for my driveway during the winter and sit back with a warm coffee, directing it’s efforts.

Roofus also has additional attachments for use in seasons other than the winter, converting it to a remote-controlled lawnmower, or cleaning machine.

Roofus ranked in the top twenty among 300 entries at the International Design Competition 2007/JDF in Osaka.

Designer: Michal Glogowski

source: Yanko Design

Roofus seems to be an improvement over this design:

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Or this one:

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Who says changing the channel has to be so boring! Why not make a remote that’s disguisable, fashionable, or just plain weird. Well here are the top remotes you’ll ever find…

The Beaded Remote

Imagine a TV remote control combined with beads. You can do much better than pressing buttons, switching channels in hope to find something interesting. Shape your habitual time-spending in unusual form. This bead remote control has numbered beads that are supposed to resemble the buttons on any normal remote, except this remote also offers beads made for customizing your favorite channels. This patent is pending.

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Remote for the Womans Touch

Her Orbit Remote is to be worn like a bracelet, but has all the basic controls on board. So the next time your man watches something you despise, play a trick on him. Show him who’s really in control and doing it with style.

The Button Remote

With this simple remote you can program it to do just about anything. You simply slip it around a button and perform some simple programming and woo-laa, you’ve got you’re own wearable remote.

The All-In-One Remote

The remote controls up to 15 devices simultaneously- SO you could have multiple displays, amp, DVD player all ready to go at the press of a button (while you’re at it, maybe turn on your air con, power up your robo sapien, check your email and anything else you can do with a remote you can do with this). Nice large icons on a bright 3.5 inch display and more importantly, it’s brushed metal and black. Don’t worry about the price either, it’s ONLY a little less then… $700!

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