Adventures in Technophobia: Robot vacuum cleaners

Man, woman, vegetable – the beautiful thing about robotic hoovers is that they know nothing of gender wars, says Jessie Collins.

While I am aware that I’m writing this in our more dedicated men’s issue, there is one thing about household technology that behoves us all to celebrate: it is as important to the emancipation of 50 per cent of the population as any other equality movement in the twentieth century. Yes,

I’m looking at you, washing machines and dishwashers. You have freed womankind and, with your blank faces and monotone styling, are as gender-neutral as ...