PingMag’s Top Five Wi-Fi Toys
January 10, 2007
PSFK today links to a great post at PingMag which looks at the "top five Wi-Fi toys in Japan" — focus on the word "toy." Most of them are round, and most of them are extremely cute…
There's the Nabaztag Wi-Fi Bunny, which can actually be kinda scary…
There's the Chumby multifunction Wi-Fi device…
There's the oh-so-useless Ambient Orb…
There's NEC's relatively basic R100 prototype robot…
…and there's the even more basic PhotoVu Wi-Fi picture frame.
They're largely pointless, and kind of strange… but they do serve as a very interesting exploration of what Wi-Fi can offer in the home when you look beyond basic computing and multimedia functionality.