I know this is no longer cutting edge, but I nevertheless intend to bore you with my current favourite toy, the WLAN rabbit.
When I first saw a Nabaztag, in a showroom, I asked the sales rep what it did. He didn’t have an answer – not good coming from a salesperson, but after now having played around with the device for a couple of hours, I can sort of understand him. If you’re used to “this is a notebook PC”, “this is a mouse”, “this is a smartphone”, and so on, explaining the Nabaztag/tag in equal brief can obviously prove difficult, especially since the Nabaztag/tag is part tool, part toy. (Note the “/tag” suffix that indicates the current version.)
Among the features that make me believe I would be able to successfully write down a Nabaztag/tag as a deductible business expense are the RSS feed reader, the time and reminder announcements, and the email alerts. Then there is the leisure department, filled with common toys such as MP3 and podcast player as well as with more unusual ones. Examples in the latter category include the Nabaztag/tag wiggling its ears in loving synchrony with its online significant other, performing tai chi exercises, and issuing you a weekly report card.
As for the future, you should soon be able to specify actions Nabaztag/tag should perform when it finds a special RFID tag (to be sold under the name of Ztamp) nearby. Girlfriend home already? Mail picked up? This feature sounds like fun, although there are obvious privacy worries as well.
Anyway, assuming (or once) you have sailed through purchasing and/or building your home or office WLAN, perhaps a Nabaztag/tag would be in order? What do you think? Please post your comments!
(Oh, and I did receive lots of cool - and warm - non-gadget stuff as well; no prejudice intended!)
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this toy sucks. not only does the entire list of features exhist with any current OS, but it proxy’s to Violet’s site to give you this info. WHERE is the “new” this thing does not do anythig spectacular. I have a bunny, so do i, nw we can be friends and jerk off over our plastic french disco lights~! I suggest that no one get this tihng. Website sucks, setup sucks, 45sec max audio feeds, lame lame lame… so lame and not so cute. i hate you rabbit. and your overloaded servers. get a ipod, get a ds, get a fucking cat, cause this rabbit is cooked.
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