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Tuesday, Sep 1
Pleo lover and former Ugobe CTO John Sosoka separates robo-mind and robo-body with two new companies
Why did Pleo-maker Ugobe fail? There are many reasons, but former CTO John Sosoka thinks one of them is that the one company tried to do too much, working on both hardware and software for the lovable little paleolithic guy. Live and learn, as they say, and so his next venture is not one but two...
Friday, Apr 3
Opinion: Pleo-maker Ugobe not totally dead, not totally okay
It certainly seemed like Ugobe was dead-forever a few days ago when we noted that the company's website was seemingly gone and no one was answering the phones, but it's apparently not all bad: the site's back up, and CEO Caleb Chung told the Idaho Business Review today that the company's wi...
Monday, Mar 30
Has Pleo-maker Ugobe folded?
We don't have any official word on this as of yet, but as our main man Ryan Block noted in a tweet earlier (and Wired speculated on back in February), it looks like Pleo-maker Ugobe may -- in fact -- be extinct. As of this writing, the company's site was offline, and calls to the dino-bot factory...
Thursday, Oct 16
Kota the Triceratops unboxing and hands-on
Filed under: Robots We were pretty stoked about PlaySkool's Kota the Triceratops robotoy, but after an hour or so studying the beast with the help of two diminutive guest reviewers, we're just not all that sold. Sure, Kota turns his head, wags his tail, opens his mouth and plays sounds effe...
Wednesday, Oct 8
Kota the Triceratops ships from the land before time to your home
Playskool's Kota the Triceratops is a robot dinosaur that uses 11 sensors to respond to touch and sound by wiggling its horns, wagging its tail and turning its head. It also plays a few "adventure themed songs." Best of all, it can't stampede or impale anyone; like the animatronic Tricerato...
Friday, Aug 8
Liquid Image's underwater digital camera mask now available... in Japan
What's up with Japan getting all the cool toys first? Yeah, we can claim little victories like Pleo and basketball (shared with Canada, some say), but the two 1.5 of those don't even come close to measuring up to Her Cuteness. Differences aside, we're thrilled to see that Liquid Image's unde...
Friday, May 9
UGOBE "shocked and appalled" by destruction of Pleo at Maker Faire
Uh oh, it looks like we've got a full-fledged robot controversy on our hands. At the heart of it, as you might have guessed, is the recent obliteration of a harmless Pleo by a so-called ComBot known as Vicious Verdict at Maker Faire ...
Monday, Mar 31
Pleo finally learns to sit with Life OS 1.1
Although Pleo just got upgraded to v1.0.2 earlier this month, UGOBE is taking the Life OS to 1.1 and adding a laundry list of features to boot. Initially available for install only through an SD card (download via USB should hit within ...
Friday, Mar 14
How would you change Chumby?
As with Pleo, many may argue that Chumby is simply too cute to tweak. But if you can manage to shuffle your emotional attachments to the side for a tick, we're confident there's quite a few things you'd like to see changed. Sure, this totally unique hodgepodge of glanceable information and be...
Tuesday, Feb 5
Engadget Vlog：Pleo 的生活日记
我们在开箱 Pleo 的时候，就有一面有读者朋友说我们那篇文章没内容（事实上，如果能把开箱文写成 Pleo 从箱子里爬出来，那可能就不是开箱文，那是鬼片了），也有读者朋友说我们应该拍 Vlog。对啊！拍 Vlog，于是瘾科技的影片团队[1]开始跟踪 Pleo，直击了 Pleo 怎么过鼠年，会不会怕老鼠呢？小道消息指出，因为 Pleo 没有味道所以如狗狗般的动物比较没有兴趣，但小孩子却超爱它的！废话不多说，快来看看 Pleo 的生活日记啰～
Friday, Jul 27
UGOBE's Pleo stock all dried up
After the months on end of waiting anxiously for UGOBE to actually announce that the Pleo was more than a very lovable piece of vaporware, you'll now be forced to seek other vendors or wait even longer before receiving one of your own. Nary a month after pre-orders went live here in the US, UGO...
Sunday, Feb 5
Ugobe's Pleo dino-bot - Engadget
Apparently Pleo, the 1-week-old Camarasaurus, runs on Ugobe's "Life Form Operating System" (whever that is) and receives sensory input by way of 38 touch, motion, toe, light and sound sensors, moves with 14 servos, has such adorable ...
