DO NOT MOW YOUR LAWN. MAYBE EVER AGAIN

If, say, Bart Simpson were to design a lawnmower (much like

his pops designed a car, The Homer, in season two episode

15 — a classic!), it might be something along the lines of the top-of-the-range, robotic model currently produced by Swedish outdoor power products manufacturer Husqvarna.

It’s called Automower 450X, but we’d like to think of it as The Bart: it looks like a mini

Batmobile (complete with mean-looking headlights), can be pre-programmed from your phone, and — most importantly — requires you to do absolutely sweet nada’s worth of mowing yourself. The sensor-controlled machine trundles across your garden within a perimeter set by a wire buried beneath the topsoil, which a Husqvarna dealer can install for you, and will even find its way back to the charging station when it’s feeling a bit low. It can be set to keep trimming your grass by millimetres, dispersing the tiny clippings back into the lawn as it goes, which also means: no emptying a grass-catcher.

It’s quiet enough to run at night without distressing your neighbours, and if they like it a little too much its location can be tracked by GPS. Entirely no

cows to be had.