December 16, 2006
Tech Grinch’s Christmas List: No. 6 Pleo the dinosaur
Continuing our countdown on the Top Ten Tech Trinkets you can’t buy this Christmas…
6. Pleo the dinosaur: It seems a geological age since Ugobe announced their revolutionary robot. In fact, it was February and it was supposed to go on sale in the autumn at around $200. Now it looks like shipping in March 2007 at $250.
“We don’t think like a toy company, we are more of a robot company,” says Bob Christopher, Ugobe chief executive, explaining the grinch-like attitude of ironing out the kinks and denying kids at Christmas.
Ugobe is a neighbour of Pixar in Emeryville in the Bay Area and has Apple connections that boost its aura of cool. Pleo may be prehistoric but Ugobe is expected to use and license the Artificial Intelligence it has created to allow futuristic figures to act out video games on your coffee table at Christmases to come.
10. An Enzo Ferrari
9. Halo 3
