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Second Generation Aibo Specs Officially Released
pastie writes "The second generation Sony Aibo now has a full and glorious specification at the Aibo homepage. "
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Second: I'll buy one when it's capable of being a guard dog, a la Snow Crash. I'd love to see the neighbors get mangled by my nuclear attack dog!
Well, if you look here, you'll see that "AIBO learns from your praise or scolding. Praise it for playing with its ball, and it will enjoy playing with the ball more than ever. But if you scold AIBO when it is only looking at the ball, it will soon ignore the ball altogether."
So I suppose if you scold it when it's around you, it will ignore you, but if you praise it when it's around the neighbours, it will go after the neighbours.
Some computerized weaponry and a little bit of hacking later, you have a psychologically-warped little robot dog that's armed to the teeth.
I can spell. I just can't type.
their choice of location for the "PC Card Slot" is rather amusing. (Or disgusting, depending on your sense of humor levels....)
"Umm...I think your robot dog is humping your computer..."
"No, he's just uploading data."
"Don't tell me. He uses burst transfers, right?"
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A real pure bread dog or cat costs only a few hundred
Actually, you can probably knead a pure bread dog (or cat, for that matter) with buying a couple loaves of bread from the nearest Safeway and softening it with water. You can leave it soft if you're a cat person with a longing for a warm, fuzzy cat, or bake it at 400F for that hard Doberman look.
A purebred dog can be more fun since it's actually alive, and it can lick you in the face, catch a frisbee and all.
Yes you are right. Think of all the personal info they could gain with that thing. All they would have to do is drive a little black van within about 200 feet of your house (the range of most wireless LAN cards these days). Then they would have to control the dog over the network so that they can maneuver it into position so it doesnt just take pictures of walls and such. Then they take the picture (of what?) and download it over the LAN.
Yep, that sure is a great way to collect data on customers. Drive to their houses and control dogs and have them take pictures of toilets or wallpaper or people's feet. Every big company would kill to get this kind of great marketing information! And they get it so easily, too!
Bah.
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I dont know about the rest of you guys .. but i dont feel quite comfortable with the positioning of the battery pack.
i can just see it now.
Is your dogs batteries falling out ? or is he just happy to see me??
If you hack Aibo, you're just a hacker.
If you hack a real dog, you're a mad scientist and people call the ASPCA.
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