Michael Ansaldo from techhive said that iLife impressed me with its Shinebot W400 mopping robot I reviewed recently. It dared to deviate from the samey offerings in its category and was a better product for it. The iLife A9 robot vacuum does the same, albeit to a less extent.
It starts with the A9’s design. Breaking from the monochromatic scheme used by most robot vacuums, the A9 mixes things up with gunmetal gray trim around its circumference, and a silver aluminum power switch and accent circle on its black top. iLife refers to it as a “classic vinyl record exterior,” and it does indeed resemble an LP. Its dock eschews convention, too, pairing a white inlay with a black outer shell.
The A9’s real innovation though is its new 600ml “cellular dustbin.” Without getting too into the engineering particulars, the dustbin essentially uses a pair of filtering methods and centrifugal force to separate small and larger particles the vacuum sucks up into separate parts of the dustbin, ensuring that it only expels clean filtered air and avoids secondary pollution.
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