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Skateboarding AIBO
psyconaut writes "Sony continues it's line of robotic pets with a new accessory: a $249 skateboard! Why on earth you'd actually want your AIBO to zoom around on a skateboard is another question. The U.S. AIBO site has it here, but the thing looks more impressive on the Japanase AIBO site. Other new AIBO products also seem to include, FINALLY, a self charging station so AIBO can feed himself."
a ROBOTIC skateboard! No actual physical effort involved - just sit on your backside and watch it!
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Ok I know AIBO is not exactly cheap, but $249 for a skateboard?
Aibo's are expensive enough as it is, now you'd be tossing them onto a free-moving skateboard? Money to waste or someone's going to take advantage of the camera in the mall's dressing rooms
Cause, really, nothing says "I'm a counter culture rebel, fighting the establishment" like an Aibo on a skateboard.
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When's the AIBO pooper scooper coming out?
and still have money left? Well why not spend it all on the accessories? :o)
This ad brought to you by the company behind AIBO.
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Why on earth you'd actually want your AIBO to zoom around on a skateboard is another question.
If there was ever a question to which "because you can" is the answer, this is it.
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok
I bet these things will be showing up for kids under the Christmas tree (or insert festival of your choice). I get a catalog called "Lifestyle Fascination" which rivals Hammacher Schlemmer for gadget psychosis. Sharper Image is strictly farm league.
The incredible thing is, this stuff really does sell. Really. Someone liked this stuff enough to post this article. And here I'd thought we'd hit the price/value nadir back in the 70's with disco and the Pet Rock.
How long before someone...
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It Looks to me like it pushes it self along with its legs...couldnt you get the same effrct with a piece of ply wood and some skateboard wheels?
So it can finally chase cars, of course!
The only problem is the reaction of irate motorists being chased by an annoying, skateboarding robot-dog. Once they overcame their initial surprise, could they resist the temptation to brake and reverse?
Seriously, why are the Japanese so obsessed with robots? Whenever there's a new robot toy that has no real practical purpose whatsoever, it's usually the Japanese who come up with it. Why? Do they think they can eventually build a super-robot to keep Godzilla from whopping their asses every time he comes around?
The only reason I keep my Windows partition is so I can mount it like the bitch that it is.
Does anyone actually know anyone that has an AIBO? Just curious :)
....till people start making trojans for AIBO's and use them to attack people. :)
WTF was that!?
Oh, just another robotic dog on a skateboard..
Well... though these things fail to catch my attention just as much as 3d-screens do, I did some reading up on it... and... well - it seems to me there are a couple of things wrong with the whole concept (besides it being completely stupid ;).
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/me waves a finger at Sony (NO, not the indecent one). "Shame on you Sony!"
First of, I am simply unable to see who the buyers are... Is it just me, or do "real" geeks look down on this stuff? Then who's left? Tech-geeks? Probably kids with (too) rich parents... which leads me to the second thing I don't get: THE PRICE OF THE GODDAMN SOFTWARE!
It seems, that you can modify your small doggish robot with some software... but the price is $ 449.00(!!) This puts it out of reach of most kids, as they wont be able to utilize it anyway. Maybe at a tenth of the price, the kids who get the robot in the first place can convince their parents to buy the software as well...
Hmm... anyone working on a open source program to replace the Sony stuff?
Ohh... and another thing: Sony should be ashamed of themselves for claiming that this is an example of AI! Really... the most advanced models (with the CPU clock speed of 384MHz) have only 75 responses. If it were to approach any kind of true AI, it seems to me that it would at the very least have to have a learning-routine and some storage (besides the 16 MB that can be used for stuff like storing snapshots...
Glue your Aibo to the roof of your car, then your Aibo can "drive" everywhere! Better than a skateboard!
Or, if you just happen to own a surplus AH-64D you could stick your Aibo on top (careful it doesn't get chopped up by the main rotor!) - now your Aibo can fly!
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Why on earth you'd actually want your AIBO to zoom around on a skateboard is another question.
The first question is, "why would you buy an Aibo in the first place?".
Today, a skateboard. Tomorrow, whay about a Segway ?
...And go down to your local humane society and adopt a puppy instead.
For the price of the skateboard, you could have everything taken care of, including shots, and for the price of an AIBO, you would have enough money to feed it for its lifetime.
Though they probably will never be able to skateboard, a warm, loving puppy with emotions and feelings will warm your heart in ways a cheesy, overpriced piece of plastic toy cannot.
We are losing our humanity with our silly toys, and we need to get back to real feelings of love and joy.
Many dogs aren't euthanized -- they are instead killed for sport by sadists who run the pound. Right now, there is a mistreated, lonely, and cold dog in your town's pound that is meant for you -- go out and adopt it.
Speaking of skateboards when are we gonna get hovering skateboards like in Back to the future. /me crosses fingers
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A close cousin of the skateboarding Aibo can be found here.
Amazing magic tricks
Another way to live vicariously through my purchases...I never could skateboard, but dog gone-it, my AIBO can!
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
If you use your Sony AIBO to mimic any positions used in an official Playstation / Playstation 2 skateboarding product you may be sued.
Neil Stephenson's book, Snow Crash. Finally modern-day-tech can make me one of the super-doggies like they had! Wait, come to think about it, the radioactive isotope used to power it (the robo-doggie from the book) were quite nasty, something about a 5 mile zone of radiation... I'll cancel that order.
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I was at the Sony store in Chicago last arround christmas and I asked the guy there where the DAT recorders were at (this was before sony axed their dat line). He replied they don't carry such a specialty product at their store because they were too expensive to keep a stock. It was doubly funny as he was standing next to a carpet with a about 30 ABIOs running arround.
This is much simpler, and you have lots of more oftions, but one way immediately comes to mind:
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And I'm pretty certain posting a guide to -1:Offtopic posting is a pretty sure way too, but we'll have to wait and see about that. At least that would be self-referental, which is somehow almost always magically on topic on Slashdot. Though skateboarding Aibos might be stretching it.
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok
Scooters predate skateboarding by about half a century. They're not the same thing.
Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?
for mom's credit card.
Batteries required for other features.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
Telescoping-spoked wheels on the skateboard, and a Poon for those high-speed newspaper and slipper retrieval. Brought to you by Sony Kourier.
I have two long haired chihuahua's.. the little blighters are heaps more fun than a dumb semi-bot in the vauge shape of a dog..
and they cost me less..
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Skateboards, eh?
I'm just waiting for the day when all of these Aibo's get bored with filming their skateboarding, and start filming Aibos racing themselves in shopping carts and smashing themselves into a brick wall for kicks.
"Hey dude, you broke your left navigational antenna. DUDE, IT'S BROKEN. That's so funny dude! Yip yip!"
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Looks like there might finally be some competition for Tony Hawk.
..."
"... I can't believe it, AIBO has pulled a 720 reverse double dog-paddle air, a trick of his own devising
... and now my toys have more fun than I do.
At least SOMEBODY has time to enjoy them.
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It's all starting to make sense...
Because if you can afford to buy a $1500 AIBO in the first place, you can probably afford to dish out $250 for it.
(Paraphrased from TechTV's "TechLive")
That's not a skateboard. IT's a scooter of some type. on the website It is called a speedboard. It looks somewhat like a snakeboard but thr is no way it oculd be used to do any tricks (at least not without a pretty major ramp). TRicks are the main reason a lot of people skate and it just doesn't seem possible with this accesory
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> Sony continues it's line of robotic pets
Slashdot, where illiteracy is valued above anything else.
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I couldn't find a reference to this anywhere. The AIBO Energy Station is something you flop your dog-robot onto... but it can't do it itself. I thought it would when I bought it too; just wishful thinking I guess.
-- David
David Whatley
Once they overcame their initial surprise, could they resist the temptation to brake and reverse?
This temptation will only be exacerbated by the upcoming release of the electromagnetic 'poon, which the skater Aibo can use to CATCH cars.
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I've been really disappointed with Sony's Aibo. The mechanics are beautiful, but the software is dumb. It can't learn its environment, it can't keep from falling off a table, it can't balance, it can't recharge itself (even with the new charging stand) and it can catch its special ball only under optimal circumstances. Considering that all those things have been done by other robots, and that Aibo has been out for a while, this is a low level of performance for what the thing costs.
Have you not noticed the groinal attachment on its underbelly?
Yet another wonderful invention to have all our fun for us! Woohoo!
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they come up with all kinds of innovative things, but I think the most important of all is bukkake.
First there was the little bulldog from the Powell and Peralta video "Public Domain" and then much later there was Flower, Matt Field's dog.
It might look like the dog is posing, but she can push and turn and actually skate down hills.
And since it's Slashdot I have to be picky and point out that the AIBO's skateboard has handle bars and is therefore some kind of scooter or hand-truck.
feints within feints, wheels within wheels
Last week, I was driving out to get some donuts and I saw a dog running in the middle of the road towards the car. This isn't terribly unusual where I live, and I thought I recognized the dog, but it started looking less familiar as I got closer. At first, I thought it was a chihuahua (very common in these parts), but when I got close enough, I realized it was a puppy.
I stopped the car, grabbed it, and went on for the donuts. The pup was on the verge of starving to death. It had no fat on it whatsoever, and its belly was completely distended from worms. He would have only probably lived another three or four days under those conditions.
My wife and I took him in and got him all fixed up (food, water, shelter, shots, flea bath, dewormer, antibiotics, neutering, and lots of love and attention). He was obviously neglected, and for a few days he wasn't sure how to handle getting attention from humans.
The original owners, whoever they may be, are not getting this dog back. It could be the drug dealers who raise vicious dogs, or just an idiot who thought the dog was fat (from the worms), so should be put on a diet (not fed at all). I don't care.
In the former case, I hope the community pulls together to put an end to this activity. In the latter, the idiot should probably stick with an Aibo because that's about all s/he is smart enough to deal with. (And that's only if the Aibo is entirely capable of self-operation from the moment you open the box.)
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Seems to me like our pal can't stand on his "skateboard", either. Can he fall off? Will we see Aibo in Thrasher Magazine?
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That's great. I made it a quote of the day on my site, caution, inc.
Too bad I used up all my mod points today, cause you'd have gotten them.
jred
I'm not a mechanic but I play one in my garage...
"karma whoring" yep -read SKO's journal...
Since when did skateboards have handlebars?
exec1: How can we justify raising the cost of this new speedboard in order to make more money?
exec2: Well in the past, when companies wanted to make technology more expensive without adding anything useful, they packaged interchangable color face plates.
exec1: Of course! But that wont work in this case, what can we change the color of instead?
exec2: The handlebars?
exec1: The handlebars!
Includes interchangeable handlebars (orange, black, and white)
What a "feature", as if all the AIBO stuff wasn't expensive enough already.
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# Neuters it but gives it NEUTICLES [neuticles.com] so it won't know that it's been altered!
I'm sorry, but putting fake nuts on your dog so that it thinks it's still licking them is wrong.
Almost as bad as a skateboard riding robot pet... oh wait
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
is listed under accessories.
War-dog-walking, anyone?
The latest Slashdot meme.
One step closer to my own rat thing...AKA Jet Dawg. Now if I can only overcome the cooling issues.....
Ever since I replaced my RealDoll with a dog, I've been much happier.
I thought the $250 price tag was over the line, but after noticing that it comes with interchangeable handlebars (orange, black, and white), this skateboard is well worth it.
.smell my feet.
I can see the focus group on this:
Sony: Yeah, we made this great robot dog thing, it walks around on it's own four legs. Err, I guess it's kind of slow, and clumsy. It doesn't really do all that much. Ah, yes, that's the ticket. A retrofit.
Let's give it wheels.
DOH!
To Sony from a robot loving geek. Walking robots are really cool and shit, but not always optimal. Consider a home robot that uses a simple-but-robust system of wheels, and use some of that R&D budget for something with a brain.
Just a thought.
The Screensavers were talking about this a week ago.
The slashdot editors should be more interested in an Aibo that fetches today's paper.
Maybe then we can get News for Nerds, while it still matters.
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
AP is reporting that the legendary Tony Hawk is hanging up his skateboard, and moving on to bigger and better things.
When asked what prompted his departure from the sport, Mr. Hawk replied "I don't know how I can compete against this. I mean sure, the thing probably can't method to save it's ass, but that kind of cuteness just sucks the life out of the sport. I figure I'll just take up base jumping or something. It'll be at least a couple more years before that job-stealing, mechanical fleatrap can open a parachute. I hope."
If the beast can drive me in my car to work then I'll be impressed. Would be usefull 2. I could finally catch some Zzz stuck in traffic jams.
The glass is half-full. With poison. And there are cracks in the glass. The dirty, dirty glass.
To see a real dog skateboarding, see www.chevalet.net/pomp (click on "escapades" for realplayer action).
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Too expensive... Seems that everything Aibo-related is very expensive... Using some hacked software for Aibo I think that one can make a skateboard, surfboard o paraglider for Aibo, the stunt bot :-)
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For all the quality Aibo on Aibo movies and pictures you can imagine!! You won't regret it!
We are losing our humanity with our silly toys, and we need to get back to real feelings of love and joy.
Who says you can't own an AIBO *and* a real pet?
Give me a break!
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Think about all the time that went into designing a machine that can walk on four mechanical paws. Now throw all that away and make it use wheels. Uhm maybe I'm missing something here..
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Most people who talk about the AIBO speak of running out of money. Well, this is obviously a toy not for us people then. For me, a universal remove for $19 is basically disposable .... if it breaks, so what! Thats just because I make enough to where $20 is change.
... it obviously isnt for you.
For my uncle on the other hand, $249 is chump change, and $1200 isnt going to break the pocket book. To the obvious market, this is like buying an offroad radio controlled vehicle for $80 and have it romp in the mud and jump over curves. Someone who is only making $5/hour and having to keep a low rent would never buy an $80 vehicle and extra batteries.
So if you are complaining about the price
duh ...
feints within feints, wheels within wheels
is demo technology for when the Japanese decide to disclose the full extent of their technological dominance... by becoming borg.
I hoped I wouldn't live to see the day when life imitates explodingdog.
Can the monsters and the red robots be far behind?
Wilbur Kookmeyer I presume...
Here on Earth real Skaters (skateboarders) shorten the term skateboarding to skating. As in I'm gonna skate a killer pool after work (I am too In Real Life). Those sorry fools that put on wheels under each foot are called Bladers but more to the point they are called Fruity-Booters or just plain Booters due to the Gay Ass tricks they do, whilst getting in the real skaters way.
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