The Underscore Archives

> It's a speaker with wifi?

Aside from the lights and motorised ears the new ones have RFID and
voice recognition as well.

> We could do better than that.

I've heard that from a few people and places, No-one has actually done
anything though.

> And make it open
> standards. All you need is a little motherboard out of one of those
> external HDD units and a Furbie and you're away.

Well, there are photosets here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/natatwo/sets/72057594071598078/ and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lauriej/

I'm pretty sure there are some technical details around somewhere as
well, but I don't have them to hand.

> Hell, I might even try
> that. You could make it a million times smarter and more useful.

I imagine that aside from the practical problems of manufacture, the
difficulty is hitting a competitive price point. As far as I
understand it, Violet make most of their money by selling 'pro'
accounts which let your rabbit receive custom information rather than
just their pre-set services. This is why there's interest in setting
up proxies so that you can take control of it yourself (I think there
are some in .NET, Java and C++ at the mo).

Remember to let us know when you've got something, there's no real
competitor for the nabaztag, so something for the MAKE crowd would go
down a storm.

Cheers,

Phil

p.s. You might want to fix your Apache config, http://conscious.co.uk/
is a 404, I guess you want to redirect to http://www.conscious.co.uk/