So The Pleo Was Star Of the Apprentice - And I Missed It

Apparently The Pleo was star of the The Apprentice and I chuffing missed it! Hopefully this will mean that Ugobe will keep it going in some way or another after they "went bust"!

And if you did want to buy a Pleo, I've searched for the cheapest prices and here they are:

Download the Halloween Pleo Personality

Ugobe have released the new Halloween personality. I'm going to install it and take some video. Has anyone else done it yet?

Cool Pleo Stuff From Amazon

Don't you just love the guys that make their own stuff and put it on Amazon? Well there's loads to choose from to adorn your Pleo, from dog tags. But it's more fun to buy yourself some T-shirts, sweaters and mugs :-)

Pleo V2? Coming Soon

I'm sure the guys at Ugobe must be working on Pleo V2! They wouldn't invested all that cash and employed all that staff for a one hit-wonder!

So what next for Pleo?

Well I doubt they'll be able to make significant review streams from accessories and updates so the only option left to them would be to build a new model of Pleo with advanced features.

My belief is that we'll have a new Pleo ready for next Christmas.

Let's hope so!

Latest Pleo Prices

As you can see from below there's still a lot of flexibility in the prices of the Pleo!

Find Me A Gift is still the cheapest at £198.90, whilst Amazon have reduced their prices to £199.99. It all depends if you want free delivery and you're getting other stuff at the same time.

Latest Pleo Hack With Facial Recognition

It seems that Pleo has not only been a cute toy for kids but also something for the newbie robotics engineer can get their teeth into. A team of, not-so-newbies, at the Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg, Germany has shown how to connect Pleo wirelessly to a remote computer and give him the power of facial recognition.

Looks mighty painful if you ask me!



Right, here goes, I'll try and explain it. A small XBee module is connected to an internal serial port which allows you to send diagnostics back to the pc. The PC will then analyse them and send info back to Pleo. The team also attached a higher resolution camera to replace Pleo's own one which allowed it to perform pattern-recognition in real time.

Cracking if you ask me!

We're Destined To Have Robo Relationship

The Inquirer Reports that we're destined to have become more emotionally entwined with our reports in the future as they become more humanoid.

Now if these robots become too life-like I'm going to become exceptionally worried if we get into the situation Robin Williams did in the movie Bicentennial Man.








In the meantime, I'm more than happy with my Pleo!