ambient device: nabaztag
For those of you kinda looking at me funny through the computer screen when I wrote “ambient devices”, I did not make it up. This is what Wikipedia has to say:
Ambient devices are new genre of consumer electronics, characterized by their ability to be perceived at-a-glance (also called “glanceable”). Tie this at-a-glance technology into an internet enabled device and you get something like the Ambient Orb, “a glass lamp that uses color to show weather forecasts, trends in the stock market, or the traffic on your homeward commute”.
I’ve never had an ambient device, but this Nabaztag (aka WiFi enabled rabbit) is cute enough to kinda make me want one. Thanks to my mom for sending me a link about it. According to this Yahoo! Tech review, if you speak into its belly, it will tell you about the weather. If he smells your car keys, he’ll excitedly tell all your friends that you are home. And he can teach your other iAnimals how to talk back to you.
I posted a larger article about the Nabaztag and other ambient devices (like the Chumby and AmbientUmbrella) on ThreeMinds. When I asked through the network if anyone had had experience with a device, it turned out that someone actually had a Nabaztag that they were bored of playing with. So, they volunteered to send it to me to watch over for a little while.
Looks like Roxy is going to have to house sit for my ambient bunny too 
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