If you’re looking to shower your family or friends with high-tech gadgets to help in the home or kitchen, look no further than SharkNinja. Featuring everything from a robotic vacuum to a jack-of-all-trades kitchen system, SharkNinja has something for all of your loved ones. Read on to hear more about their new products, including a first-hand review of two!
SharkNinja is a not-so-cleverly named conglomerate that encompasses two very popular retail brands, Shark and Ninja. Shark concentrates on home cleaning appliances like vacuums while Ninja concentrates on kitchen appliances. Both brands are ramping up the technology in the home appliance marketplace.
Recently, Shark and Ninja introduced a whopping 9 high-tech home appliances to the market:
- Ninja Chef
- Ninja Coffee Brewer
- Ninja Cooking System with Auto-iQ
- Ninja Intelli-Sense Kitchen System
- Ninja Intelli-Sense Kitchen System with Auto-Spiralizer
- Shark ION ROBOT 750
- Shark Apex DuoClean Powered Lift-Away
- Shark IONFlex
- Shark Steam Mop
SharkNinja was nice enough to send me the Ninja Intelli-Sense Kitchen System with Auto-Spiralizer as well as the Shark ION ROBOT 750 for testing and review. I’ll go into detail for both, but overall, I’ve been seriously impressed by the innovative features and high quality of both of the SharkNinja products.
Ninja Intelli-Sense Kitchen System with Auto-Spiralizer
This fancily named blender/food processor system is a jack-of-all-trades in your kitchen. The system is composed of a 1200W base that accepts four different attachments: a 72-ounce total crushing pitcher, an 8-cup precision food processor, a 24-ounce single-serve cup with Pro Extractor Blades, and an auto spiralizer. This means that the Intelli-Sense Kitchen System may be able to replace up to three of your current kitchen appliances.
The base has Smart Vessel Recognition so it will recognize the attachment you’ve connected and will display the smart programs specially designed for each attachment on the base unit’s innovative touchscreen. That brings me to the touchscreen, it’s a very slick-looking screen that displays the 12 smart programs and 3 manual settings used to control the Kitchen System. It’s incredibly easy to use and easy to clean.
What I love is the flexibility of the Intelli-Sense Kitchen System. If you’re making smoothies for a bunch of people, you can use the large total crushing pitcher. If you’re making a smoothie for yourself, you can use the single-serve cup. If you’re making hummus, you can use the food processor. It can really do almost anything you need it to. It’s got the power to crush up a ton of frozen fruit and ice and the multiple blades make sure everything in the vessel gets chopped up.
About to make some hummus…
The result…
We’ve made a bunch of smoothies as well as hummus in the Ninja Intelli-Sense Kitchen System, and we’ve been impressed with its versatility as well as its ease of cleaning. Just watch out while cleaning, because those blades are SHARP! My wife, my mother in law, and I all cut our fingers while cleaning the blades for the first time. We’ve since learned our lesson! Our only real complaint is that the single-serve cup with pro extractor blades does not blend as well as the total crushing pitcher with the chopping blade, but that’s tough to achieve.
Smoothing making…
Priced at around $269.99 at retailers nationwide, the Ninja Intelli-Sense Kitchen System with Auto-Spiralizer will make a great gift for any amateur chef in your life.
Shark ION ROBOT 750
Featuring Wi-Fi connectivity, optional cleaning and scheduling via the smartphone app or voice control via Alexa or Google Assistant, Shark’s ION ROBOT 750 is an extremely convenient way to keep your floors clean. The ION ROBOT 750 also features a self-cleaning brushroll to capture long and short hair, dust, dander, and allergens. There are also two spinning brushes on the sides of the unit pull in debris from corners and edges to capture as much as possible.
The smart sensor navigation also ensures the robot can navigate any environment, from wood floors, to carpet, to tile. The sensors are so powerful that they can avoid obstacles before hitting them and it can even ensure it doesn’t fall down stairs with cliff sensors. The ION ROBOT 750’s profile is pretty low, so it’s able to roll underneath furniture to fully clean your floors.
Check out the below “SharkClean” app screenshots:
The dustbin is super simple to empty, as it detaches from the side of the robot with a single button. The lithium-ion battery provides about an hour cleaning time and the robot will automatically return to its charger when the battery is low.
Honestly, I was not expecting a lot from Shark’s ION ROBOT 750 because it is Shark’s first venture into robotic vacuums. I wasn’t sure how well the ION ROBOT 750 would navigate my kitchen/living room with all of our furniture, change in elevations due to rugs placed over hardwood flooring. Let me tell you how pleasantly surprised I was, seeing the “SharkBot,” as we’ve lovingly nicknamed him, cruise around the floor, picking up a ton of dirt, dust bunnies, and crumbs. He nimbly makes the transition between our hardwood floor and the rug without skipping a beat.
We really got a kick out of saying “Alexa, ask Shark to clean the floor,” and hear SharkBot come alive with his beeps and bloops and roam around the living room picking up dirt. There are also buttons on the top of the robot to start/stop cleaning as well as send it back to its dock, so even my 3-year old daughter can control her robot vacuum friend.
I’ve actually come home and said to my wife “Wow, did you clean the den?” Listen, guys, I literally never notice things like this. My wife responds “SharkBot was busy today!” She really loves this thing, too. And it really picks up a ton of dirt. We’ve had to empty the dustbin a number of times, so we know it’s working.
Our only complaint is that the ION ROBOT 750 beeps pretty loudly when it starts and when it docks, and we haven’t figured out how to turn the beeps off or at least reduce the volume. The first time we scheduled SharkBot to clean at 1 am, it actually woke me up with its beeping. But this is a fairly minor complaint.
Priced at $349, the Shark ION ROBOT 750 is a fantastic deal and makes a great gift for friends and family who love technology as well as a clean home!
Source: The Shark ION ROBOT 750 and Ninja Intelli-Sense Kitchen System were manufacturer supplied review samples from SharkNinja
What I Like: High-Tech; Simple to use; Makes everyday tasks more convenient; Great prices; Easy to clean
What Needs Improvement: Beeping is loud on the robot vacuum; Blending can be sub-par in the single-serve cup