PLEO Dinosaur - A Ugobe Life Form
Sunday, December 30th, 2007 - 11:20am
Ok so I just got an advertisement about this product and it looked interesting. All I can say is this little tiny anamtronic type pet is amazing. I watched all the videos and read up on this little tiny dinosaur and it's quite impressive what Ugobe has done. Even though the charge only lasts about an hour (4 hour charge) it's still a pretty neat little toy/pet/robot thing. If you can afford the $345 price tag.
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Funny, I was just looking at these a little bit earlier. I've been watching these for a while, they were mentioned in Robot magazine a while back. They seem really interesting but I had thought they were shooting for a lower price point.
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Interesting, a bit of forethought by the designers to include negative responses to stimuli as well.
How... delicately put.
I've been following this robot and I have to say that I want one. I've been trying to suggest to my wife that we get one as a pet for our daughters, but she's not buying it. It's cheaper than the Sony AIBOs were and, from what I've read, just as good or better. A couple of years ago I read an article about them and how a prototype caught fire and you could see it burning inside through its skin. I thought that was bizarre that a consumer toy, prototype or not, would have those kinds of issues.
There are a lot of videos on YouTube of Pleo in action.
They had that thing on the 1up show recently. Looked kinda creepy.
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I wonder what my cats would do to it.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
At first I thought that said "I wonder if my cats would do it." I wasn't quite sure what to make of that but I do really find the idea of you saying that amusing.
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They are a horny bunch.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
Well, the cats I know supdivide the world into a) stuff to eat, b) stuff to be afraid of, c) stuff to have sex with, d) toys, and e) landscape. My guess would be that they'd start with b), move on to d), interrupted by (hopefully) short bouts of a) or c), and eventually settle on e). Much like their treatment of little children, really.
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