Ugobe has posted another video in their “Behind the Scenes: The Making of Pleo” series. This time, Caleb Chung, gives us a tour of Ugobe labs. In it we get to meet 12 of Ugobe’s employees - from the CTO, to the secretary, to Andrea the object regonition guy.
It looks like a fun workplace […]
Funny.
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Early Pleo prototype without his skin!
The little guy looks a little scary like this!
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In the original press release from Ugobe, they announced that Pleo would have nearly 40 sensors. Now, nearly 7 months later, the number has dropped to 34, and that’s *after* the addition of a camera.
So, where have the sensors gone?
Thanks to Thorn for pointing this out.
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I thought I’d post this picture that’s been floating around. It has changed a bit, with the addition of the camera, but it’s still useful to look at.
Pleo’s Features
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Pleo prototype and John Sosoka
The SF Gate published an article on Pleo recently. In it, they reveal a few new details. For instance, Pleo will weight about 4 lbs. They also give us some help on the perplexing camera problem.
Using a camera installed in its nose, it sees and tracks faces and locations. It […]
In the market survey that Ugobe is conducting, one of the questions asks you to choose which behaviors and abilities that you think best suite Pleo and your tastes.
The following list is given:
Dances to music (beat recognition)
Over 450 distinct movements and behaviors
Plays games with you (i.e., hide and seek, tug of war, etc.)
Ability for […]
In the user survey that Ugobe is conducting, they have images of three potential boxes for Pleo. They ask you to vote for which you think is the most attractive and appropriate based on your previous survey question answers. In the survey, I picked the 2nd option, but now that I think about […]
All of you that have signed up on Ugobe’s website to receive updates probably received an email late this afternoon. For those of you that didn’t, I’ll fill you in on some of the juicy tidbits.
First off, Ugobe “officially” announced that it’s pushing back the relase date of Pleo untill March (hopefully).
Secondly, the stated […]
Apparently Toys R Us didn’t get the news about Pleo not getting released till March. Pleo apparently is available for “pre order” (pre preorder?) on Toys R Us’ website, with a release date of 09/15/2006. Can someone clue them in?
Their product description reads:
Pleo is an actual Camarasaurus Dinosaur with fully organic lifelike movements, autonomous […]
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