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FeaturesOut of the box, Nabaztag is 23 cm in height and weighs 418 g. It can send and receive MP3s and messages that are read out loud as well as perform the following services (by either speaking the information out loud or using indicative lights): weather forecast, stock market report, news headlines, alarm clock, e-mail alerts, RSS-Feeds, MP3-Streams and others.There is an API, with bindings for multiple programming languages including Java, Perl, Python or PHP, available to program the Nabaztag.At first talking only in English and French, as of June 2007, Nabaztag fully supports services in German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch. CommunityNabaztag owners can join social networks to share photos and videos on websites like Flickr and YouTube. Users can create podcasts (dubbed Nabcasts by Violet). There are currently over 100 of these available, mostly in English and French, created by different users on a variety of topics.Since Nabaztag can be programmed to provide new services using an API as stated above, there are dozens of services available to date from other users, including a Dashboard widget and a lottery alarm.December 2006 (most notably around the Christmas December 25 timeframe) the unexpectedly huge quantity of sold rabbits caused many troubles for Violet, the maker of Nabaztag. The Nabaztag device acts as a client to the French-based servers. When users attempted to register their new rabbits, the centralized servers were unable to handle the demand resulting in Service disruptions, server unavailability and data integrity problems caused by frustrated users creating multiple half-finished registrations. This resulted in a major customer service problem for Violet. Thus it could be argued that the fundamental philosophy of Nabaztag (that all objects should be connected together on the internet and connected by a server maintained by Violet) is fundamentally flawed (e.g. the server sometimes can’t cope with volume of traffic, services have had to be switched off, unreliable response times often slow to hours rather than seconds) and could ultimately lead to the Rabbit’s demise.In March 2008, Violet changed their server infrastructure and bunny software to use the standard XMPP protocol. Bunnies are now sometimes reacting within seconds, instead of minutes, although this is by no means consistent and long delays do occur sometimes. The change caused service disruptions and problems for a couple of weeks.Bugs however continue to plague the Nabaztag system even with the new ownershirp, with little to nothing changes to the web site and the general support. Furthermore, both the my.violet.net and the my.nabaztag.com site are active at the same time, with new services appearing only on the former, and user made fancasts usually only be able to be linked by the latter. Technical specificationsThe device embeds a PIC18F6525 microcontroller, a BenQ PC card 802.11b Wi-Fi adaptor, an ml2870a Audio-PCM sound generator, an ADPCM converter, two motors to activate the ears, a TLC5922 LED controller, and a small amount of memory.The embedded software handles the TCP/IP stack and WiFi driver. It also implements a virtual machine which is able to execute up to 64kb of code. A dedicated assembly language exists to program the different features of the device. Nabaztag/tagOut on market on December 12, 2006, Nabaztag/tag is an improved model of Violet’s Nabaztag. The new model supports mp3 audio streaming for internet radio (with preset radio stations and an app allowing to add your own stream that does not work) and podcasts. This second version Nabaztag has also added a microphone that allows for voice activation of some of its services. However, despite text on the website claiming that new services will be available soon, the number of working voice activated services remains less than a handful. A final added feature is a built-in RFID reader to detect special-purpose RFID tags (ie ISO/IEC 14443 Type B). Nabaztag advertisement is presenting the ability to identify objects (depicted are e.g. keys).Nabaztag/tag can, as of November 2007, use RFID tags to read special edition versions of children’s books by the French publisher Gallimard Jeunesse. In October 2008, Violet launched RFID Childreen Books with Penguin Publishing House. Further RFID services and support have been promised).Violet has now started selling the Zstamps and Nano:ztag’s (little mini Rabbits with Zstamps inside them) and another called mir:ror which is its own RFID system separate from the NabaztagThe Wi-Fi was also upgraded to support WPA encryption, and now uses a cheaper SoftMAC card instead of the BenQ device which embedded its own 802.11 protocol stack. AwardViolet was awarded honourable mentions, category Small companies of the DME Award 2007 for Nabaztag.Nabaztag/tag was awarded for Netxplorateur of the Year in 2008.Nabaz’mob was awarded by Prix Ars Electronica Digital Musics 2009 (Award of Distinction). See alsoInternet of ThingsUbiquitous computingTux Droid References^ Violet^ Mindscape rachte officiellement Violet et son Nabaztag^ Mike’s Nabaztag Page^ the PHP/Nab homepage^ the Nabaztools homepage^ Online store description^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologyreviews/3490743/Gadget-reviews.html?image=2^ The “smell” feature is demoed in a Flash movie at the Nabaztag website.^ “New Nabaztag/tag”. i4U. November 9, 2006. http://www.i4u.com/article7067.html. ^ http://www.designmanagementeurope.com/site/index.php?page=9^ http://2008.netexplorateur.org/Net100.php?lang=EN^ http://www.aec.at/prix_history_en.php?year=2009 External linksOfficial websiteMusics/Radios on your nabaztag – Musics/Radios on nabaztagThe Nabzone – All you need to play with your Nabaztag and custom your Smart RabbitNabaz’mob – the opera site Categories: Pet rabbits | Virtual pets | Pets | Entertainment robots | General robotsHidden categories: Articles with peacock terms from May 2009 | All articles with peacock terms | Articles needing cleanup from March 2009 | All pages needing cleanup | Articles with weasel words from May 2009
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