I saw one of these last week while in Atlanta and I think this is one of the COOLEST toys ever! Why didn’t they have these when I was a kid?
If you haven’t seen it, Pleo
is a robot baby dinosaur. It has a camera-based vision system, two microphones (naturally for its two ears), an amazing combination of touch sensors, tilt sensors, and infrared sensors and detectors. It is configurable via mini-USB and even has an SD card slot for downloads. There is also an API called PDK (or Pleo Developers Kit), which means some script kiddie (maybe even me) is eventually going to program the dinosaur to eat your child!
It’s like a pet that doesn’t need food and doesn’t crap on the floor.
Will Tristan get it for his birthday? Absolutely not! If Daddy couldn’t have a $350 toy when he was 5, neither can Tristan.
