Fall is gutter cleaning season. It's also fall-off-the-ladder-and-break-your-collar-bone season. Why climb down, move the ladder, and climb back up, when you can reach. Just. A bit. Farther...

The folks who made vacuuming your floors easier with the iRobot Roomba, are making cleaning your gutters easier - and safer - with the Looj, a robotic gutter cleaner that let's you set the ladder up once and clean 80 feet of gutter in about 10 minutes. (Check out the Looj in action in the demo video below.)

The Looj has a three-stage auger that spins at 500 RPM, breaking up clogs, flinging out debris and sweeping the gutter clean. The handle detaches and becomes a wireless remote you use to drive the Looj forward and backward, as well as to control the rotational direction of the auger, so you can make sure everything gets cleaned out. Without repositioning the ladder. Or leaning too far over to get that last clump of leaves.

It's waterproof in up to one foot of water, so you can use it in clogged gutters and rinse it clean with a hose after use. And at $99 for the basic package, it's less than the hospital bill you got last time you cleaned the gutters.

$99-$169
www.irobot.com