Roomba Is Not FAA Freindly

September 18th, 2003

This week I discovered that the FAA is not a big fan of the Roomba. I was down in Texas for the weekend and took Roomba along to show my brother, and possibly persuade him to join the revolution. Roomba was packed safely away in my bag, but I thought it would be best to check the bag as I'm sure I would have turned some heads and possibly even strip searched if I tried to take this on the plane.

When I got to Austin I had a little blue tag on my bag, indicating that the bag had been searched by TSA when passing through security in Baltimore. I thought this might be because of the Calphalon, also packed in the bag, obscuring the x-ray machines and raising some concern of the baggage checkers. But when I returned back to Baltimore, this time with no Calphalon, I once again had a little blue tag and a note inside my bag letting me know that TSA had opened and searched my bags. My thought is that with all of it's sophisticated electronics and round shape, Roomba must look like a land mine packed in my bag, and TSA wants to make sure its not.

I put together this image in Photoshop of what a Roomba might look like though an x-ray, but if anyone has access to a real x-ray machine and a Roomba, I would love to see what it looks like.

roomba x-ray

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