For those of you that live in snowy climates, it will be a disaster every time when the winter is approaching, as you’ll need to shovel tons of snow off your driveway. Furthermore, spending hours shoveling under the cold and chilling weather is definitely the hardest and tortured moment…

Well, with this smart snow shovel, your nightmare can be ended now! For your information, snow shovels, or also known as “i-shovel” is the world’s first autonomous robotic snow shovel. This i-shovel can detect the snow accumulation and cleans the driveway automatically. It has a built in computer to control the shoveling process and various sensors to figure out the perimeter.

The i-shovel is fully designed to wake up and shovel away the snow, whenever it starting to sense any reasonable accumulation of snow. Although this i-shovel is an underpowered motor, but the good thing is it can keep the driveway clear even in heavy snowfall!

Are you interested on this gadget? Hold on a minute, this i-shovel is still in the prototype phase, but you might be able to buy it soon in the future (Or, you’re the impatient type, then you could try to build your very own snow shovel!).

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