The strangest Christmas gift this year (thanks Carol) is my Internet Rabbit. It's a French product (of course) which connects to sets of of Internet services like e-mail alerts, RSS feeds and weather feeds. So what is so special about it?
It is a 20cm high rabbit call a Nabaztag that using Wireless Networking provides information through a loudspeaker (it will vocalise RSS feeds, e-mails and play internet Radio feeds), ears that move (indicating its state) and 4 multicoloured lights which which can be be programed to do all sorts of thing, at the moment my lights indicate the weather forecast.
It also has a microphone that you can use to deliver commands. Press the button on it's head and say "weather" to get tomorrow's weather for your region. We're supposedely going to get snow. It also has an RFID reader in it, but at the there do not seem to be any applications for that yet.
Go to the "My Friend has a Rabbit" at www.nabaztag.com and feel free to send me messages at iansnab.
The whole thing is rather buggy at the moment, and it remains to be seen how useful it it will become (when the community writes more stuff for it), but its already good fun.
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I got one of those bunnies too, milkywave - totally random but strangely fun.
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