AIBO Via E-mail

digicosm2 writes "In honor of AIBO's fourth anniversary, Sony announced some new AIBO-related things today, including a new 'Cyber-Blue' color. But more interesting is the 'AIBO EYES' software, which allows you to control AIBO from anywhere in the world, via email. You can even receive snapshots of your home from him to your mobile phone! Might make a great (and unobtrusive) security camera or webcam..." I just want them to produce the Cerberus ^? version.

Comments

Re:fp?

[Anonymous Coward]

Control the Aibo through mail? My god, it must feel like steering the pathfinder on mars.

[move left] ...oops...

Planting AIBOs

[Arc04]

This will now open up the oppurtunity to secretly place an AIBO in the cupboard of an unsuspecting victim, and then, in the dead of night, get it to creep around taking pictures of the occupants. ;)

MUAHAHAHAHAHA!

Sounds like Dr Evil is now working for Sony - watch out Austin Powers!!!!

Re:Planting AIBOs

[Anonymous Coward]

sister in-law is in the shower/changing, etc.

Leave out the "in-law" bit and you've got it.

Sony Marketing

[alephnull42]

Oh Great. After several years, the Aibo now provides the functionality of an X10 digital camera on legs.

- Couldn't they have thought of this sooner? Hardly sounds worth a press release
- Barking Popup ads anyone?

Paranoid chicks.

[Dri]

"I won't do it in front of the dog" gets a whole new meaning.

Dog with an IP address

[swifticus]

If this means I can finally get a dog that has an IP address, I'll take it.

Re:Dog with an IP address

[Findel]

I would hate to see how you ping your dog.

Insecure?

[sould]

Hmmmmn

I wonder if I can get someone else's Aibo to wander round looking up skirts, watching peoples banking passwords, etc etc

I'm sure anyone able to forge email headers are looking foward to this.

Pushing technological boundaries

[Zayin]

[...]said Victor Matsuda, ERA's vice president. "Over the last four years, we've pushed the boundaries of what robots can do and with AIBO EYES, the market is witnessing the future of things to come: A robot that is not only a companion but also offers practical applications."

We're impressed, Victor. You must really have been pushing the boundaries hard to come up with all these innovations, like transferring images and communicating through email. You can even use your mobile phone! Wow.

Further, AIBO EYES will also enable owners to remotely e-mail message commands to AIBO and have the robot perform selected songs, such as When the Saints Come Marching In and Ode to Joy.

You mean "practical applications" as in singing "when the saints come marching in"?

Security camera?

[oniony]

The last thing you want to put a security camera in is the first thing to be stolen.

I'd put my security camera in my Microsoft Barney. I'd say he'd be around taking snapshots throughout the whole afair.

Re:Security camera?

[Gordonjcp]

Ooooh, I don't know. It would keep track of where it's being taken, getting photos all the time...

One day crackers are going to have more fun...

[shotgunefx]

Thank god the bubble burst before iDoors and other such stupid crap. I look forward to the day when everyone's pad is decked out in the iFridge, iFrame, etc.

That way, when they discover flaws, they can spoil all the food in my fridge, replace the pic of my girl on my mantle with some obscene imagery and then spy remotely on me as they sic my electronic dog on me :P

a $1500 security cam?

[nai]

Gentle idea for the robber entering your home and seeing your brand new aibo. Maybe it can send you a picture of the guy?

- You're entering a private property. Please leave now.
- Ok, now take me down, please...
- Well... At least don't forget my speed board...

I can see it now....

[fishbert42]

... some rich guy's AIBO starts going completely nuts when its email address ends up on a few dozen spam mailing lists.
Maybe it'll even maul an old lady in the process.

Good security

[CptChipJew]

The AIBO now can provide excellent home security. Of course, a 120lb pitbull can provide good security too, and could be purchased for $100.

Re:Good security

[Anonymous Coward]

You could strap a small computer and digi-cam to the dog and get pictures of it ripping up intruders. That sounds more entertaining to me.

A post for this dog!

[jkrise]

A dog with an IP is not as exciting as a dog that says, I need to Pee.

Accessory to AIBO: A mail-controlled P-post.
Operating system: eXPee and below.

Robotics

[simgod]

If former decade was about internet boom and network connectivity, the next will definetely be about robotics. The problem about robotics today is that they are tough to build - I mean the development of both hardware and software was until now the domain of academic work. Than you Sony for doing what IBM was doing in the 80's with the personal computer. Someone must set a standard and make parts interchangable. I'm just sorry that these AIBO things are so expensive. Just imagine the possibilies of entering mainstream at an affordable prize. The whole robotics market and development will boom and soon you will able to program your own humanoid machine to do some serious work for you around the house. History repeats itself. Our society will again be built on slaves (for some time). After that ...

One step closer to slam hounds

[nounderscores]

Anybody remember William Gibson's idea for a slamhound assasination device? it was sicked on Turner in count zero. Slamhounds are biological creatures based on dogs which have all of a dog's tracking abilities and physcial characteristics except that they are missing a few internal organs and have a large bomb implanted there instead.

I really don't want to be chased down the street by cute little explosive abios controlled by somebody tapping away on their mobile phone as they sit on the balcony of a rooftop coffeeshop table sipping a laté and cursing in slang-free french.

Give the dog a bone

[Findel]

Kinda give a new meaning to "Give the dog a bone" aswell.

Also, I cant wait to see what happend when it recieves some of the spam you are all talking about. I can just see the dog making his/her/its ways into the bedroom in the morning to find its owners in bed. Then it starts to read the email it just got:

"Hey..you need a bigger Jonson! Or why dont you try Viagra, that might help?"

Is it so complicated?

[RMH101]

All I want is a semi-autonomous robot about the size of, ooooh, say a hippo. With massive servo-controlled hydraulic jaws that go "psssssst". And angry glowing eyes. Is this so hard for Sony to grasp? Enough of the cuteness, already, I want something that's *dangerous*, unpatched and connected to the Internet.

Ric

Re:Sold!

[stu_coates]

Looking at my email, it's only a matter of time before my Aibo offers to make my penis larger, give me a loan, and let me know that hot sluts want me!

;-)

Unobtrusive?

[vjmurphy]

"Might make a great (and unobtrusive) security camera or webcam..."

Yep: nothing says unobtrusive like an expensive silver (now in blue!) robotic dog. No one will notice that, nosiree.

Aibo AI Mind

[Mentifex]

The Aibo AI Mind is available to make your pet robot dog a more intelligent companion for you.

The User Manual of the Aibo Kennel Club Robot Artificial Mind teaches you how to interact with the Aibo AI Mind.

A more recently updated Mentifex AI version is freely available for tinkering and for installation in more humanoid robots than the Aibo.

Technological Singularity is on its way -- thanks to the Sony Aibo robot dog!