Comments on: Bunnies!

Bunnies!

bustmakeupleave — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:06:17 -0800

Can a Bunny be your friend? Move over Tamagotchi, Move over Elmo. He can talk, smell and has a bellybutton. Strange, but kind of cool...unless they turn into this.

By: Bookhouse

Bookhouse — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:13:39 -0800

Well, that makes my pet rabbitt look like so much worthless fur.

By: adamms222

adamms222 — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:22:19 -0800

Is it possible that the Japanese are simply leading the charge of creating substitutes in anticipation of humanity's eventual decimation of all organic animal species?

By: gurple

gurple — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:22:22 -0800

Hey. Hey. I was expecting to find that annoying and useless, but that actually seems pretty cool. $150 or so for an ambient weather/traffic/stock market indicator, plus other crap, isn't so bad. Too bad it looks like a rabbit, and all.

By: konolia

konolia — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:25:07 -0800

Too bad it looks like a rabbit, and all. That's not a bug, that's a feature.

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:26:49 -0800

I would have to kill it. and eat it.

By: roll truck roll

roll truck roll — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:37:08 -0800

I wanted to get myself and my brother these for Christmas, but they've been backordered on thinkgeek for months. They're finally supposed to come this week. People on the internet have done some cool stuff with these. There's a video on Youtube of a Nabaztag giving orders to an Aibo.

By: ArkhanJG

ArkhanJG — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:39:18 -0800

This one's a French product, not Japanese (the theme song in french is... funky). I bought one just under a year ago as a valentine's present. It's never worked, and it's going back - again - for warranty repair. Usually takes a month and a bit to go and come back. It should be a rather funny and quirky. If we can ever get it to start up properly for more than 10 seconds before it keels over and dies.

By: gurple

gurple — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:40:18 -0800

Looks like initial reports are grim.

By: chococat

chococat — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:46:45 -0800

Ugh..this is going to be all over Metachat.

By: tkchrist

tkchrist — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:52:24 -0800

This is vaporware. FAKEFILTER!

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:55:02 -0800

Jump, bunny, jump!

By: delmoi

delmoi — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:56:46 -0800

my that's stupid.

By: kuujjuarapik

kuujjuarapik — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:58:29 -0800

You should be able to eat your pets in a time of crisis. This one looks too crunchy.

By: amarynth

amarynth — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:58:31 -0800

Ha. I saw that in Bust's gift guide a few months ago, but they didn't include any details as to what it actually did, so I assumed it was a sex toy.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:59:52 -0800

delmoi: you say that now, but I bet you didn't know you could keep recipes on it. That's right, recipes. You upload a recipe, and it recites it in a creepy artificial female voice, line-by-line. You'll be making stroganoff and your horrible rabbit will ruthlessly intone Tiimmee TO ADD THA sourrr creeeem, and its ears will whirr mechanically, and it will glow hatefully at you.

By: papercake

papercake — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:00:37 -0800

Sure, a bunny could be my friend. I've had friends who cost me a lot of money, seemed to be cool to hang out with, but ultimately sat around and did nothing.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:04:21 -0800

... and then pooped under the couch.

By: Kloryne

Kloryne — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:12:23 -0800

What an utter waste of technology. (I want heeem!!)

By: quin

quin — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:13:40 -0800

Sure it's cute, but until it can eat parsley like a wood-chipper, it won't ever be my best friend.

By: goml

goml — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:20:55 -0800

Ugh..this is going to be all over Metachat. You are half right...

By: mcstayinskool

mcstayinskool — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:42:08 -0800

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Betty Chu's Bunnies was the best BUNNIES! FPP of all time.

By: jenfullmoon

jenfullmoon — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:03:41 -0800

I kind of want one, and I am still not all that sure what it does. Or at least, I have no idea if I'd actually use it. But...they're cute! They light up! People give them outfits! They do some kind of made-up rabbit tai chi (whatever that is)! Okay, I'm just a sucker for rabbits, period. I'd get it if it was cheaper than it is, just to have it sit around and look cute with the rest of the office toys. I don't think my coworkers would appreciate it talking when I got e-mail, though.

By: Freen

Freen — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:23:08 -0800

Needs more hair.

By: cenoxo

cenoxo — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:43:41 -0800

Meh — I don't see any place to balance pancakes. Skewering them is not the same.

By: Green Eyed Monster

Green Eyed Monster — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:37:38 -0800

I think I'm going to hang in there with the living, breathing cat for now. He can't give me a traffic report, but he's the best at lap-warming :)

By: ErWenn

ErWenn — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:42:13 -0800

I don't think it's a terrible idea, despite the silly theme, annoying marketing, and possibly (if the reports are correct) faulty execution, but I'm kind of weirded out that all the pictures and video on the website appear to be badly rendered mock-ups. They might just have been badly Photoshopped into their backgrounds, but I can't tell. Makes the whole thing feel like a joke or a hoax. Note: I don't actually think it is a hoax. The imagery just makes it feel like one.

By: k8t

k8t — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:51:56 -0800

My bunny is nabojan if anyone wants to be friends.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:37:38 -0800

I like my bunnies low-tech. Brer Rabbit in Tales of Uncle Remus or Bunny chime ball.

By: Samizdata

Samizdata — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:01:12 -0800

Screw this. No WPA support? No insecure lagomorphs for me. Besides, the only good lagomorph was... At least you knew what you were getting...

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:44:16 -0800

If I spent enough time at home to justify spending more than $10 on any home furnishing that I can't sit on or keep books in, I would definitely want one of these. I wish I could have one of these at work and it would say things like "Time to brew more Henry's Blend!" and "Creamers need refilling!" because the timers that we have drive me out of my farking mind. It would be so much more pleasant to have a small electronic rabbit reminding me to go and check the lobby for detritus than beepbeepbeepbeep. beepbeepbeepbeep. beepbeepbeepbeep. That sound haunts my dreams.