OMG!! I just discovered the coolest toy since tickle-me-elmo!!! It's called Pleo, and it's a robotic dinosaur. But this isn't your average robotic toy... This thing has sensors out the ass!! ... literally. It also has a sophisticated AI which it uses to learn things over time and has a variety of preset behaviors and reactions like tickling underneath its chin, holding it up by its tell and having it complain. I have a friend who bought one of the first 1000 units while he was in the U.S. and he brought it to the office today... soo freakin' cool.
The really cool part that interests me though is that the makers of Pleo, ugobe (You go become), has developed an Open Architecture behind their Pleo robot allowing anyone to plug in a USB cable and program their own behaviors into Pleo. You can download programs people have made on the internet for example and get some pretty cool behaviors like evil , evil, dinosaur, etc.
I have some ideas already. The Pleo has both an IR receiver and transmitter. With this, it can communicate with other Pleos, but it also means it can intereact via IR with say your TV. The idea I have is to combine these sensors with the use of image processing to get my Pleo to play Tetris with me by reading the colored-blocks falling on the screen and making decisions!!
This will also be my baby daughter's first birthday present! (May 19).
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