Sunday, December 16, 2007

Wifi rabbit

I got myself a Wifi rabbit, also known as Nabaztag.
The newer version has a (useless) RFID reader and a (useful) microphone, i can ask him about the weather forecast by telling him "Meteo" while i press the button on his head.

There are several Nabcast and Nabgets you can subscribe too. Here is the list of elements i use:
- Avent calendar, every day a Christmas song is played
- Speaking clock (on every hour you get the time)
- News, breaking french news as they happen
- Meteo, twice a day
- Techcrunch news as they arrive
- Tai Chi, Rabbit doing tai chi once in a while
- Van Damme attitude, Jean Claude Van Damme quotes

There are also two Facebook applications that i use:
- One is supposed to tell me the new status of my Facebook friends, it stopped working recently
- Send me a message from my facebook profile, unluckily sending messages is a paying option of Nabaztag, without paying you are limited to few messages a month... Another drawback is that the messages are displayed with a French voice (accent)...

2 comments:

loci said...

so you're recommending the rabbit as a geek toy? :)

Thomas Heute said...

Actually, i think i will get bored pretty fast. It's still a quite expensive gadget with too many limitations.
If you are interested about the API:
http://help.nabaztag.com/fiche.php?fiche=29