] The use of robots around the home to mow lawns, vacuum
] floors and manage other chores is set to surge sevenfold
] by 2007 as more consumers snap up smart machines, the
] United Nations said.

CBS News | U.N. Predicts Boom In Robot Labor | October 20, 2004

] TiVo estimated that halftime viewership among its
] customers was up 12 percent from 2003.
]
] The play-it-again company also reported that usage of its
] replay technology spiked a whopping 180 percent, the
] biggest surge ever measured, following the broadcast TV
] debut of Jackson's right mammary gland "as hundreds of
] thousands of households [TiVo'd] to view the incident
] again and again."

TiVo maintains records of everything that its customers view, including everything they ask for replays of! Is the FBI now going to be accessing this information to determine who's watching which TV shows??

TiVo's records of viewing habits