Comments on: Ugobe files for bankruptcy

By: amishx64

amishx64 — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:35:11 +0000

@ macy:

CAPTCHA code is a series of number and or letters that are scattered and distorted in an image in order to prevent computer spammer (or scammer) bots from posting comments on a site or anything else such as acquiring hundreds of login names.

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P.S. What does this have to do with the article?

By: Macy

Macy — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:49:08 +0000

What is captcha code? I’m kinda new at this so I’m sorry if I don’t understand. Thanks in advance.

By: Choscura

Choscura — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:51:02 +0000

I was fortunate enough to see the workshop where pleo was designed and built. the (admittedly ugly) green skin was not the only one, I’ve personally seen a few prototypes that looked good, one was orange, I think I remember a purple one and I’ve heard of but not seen furry pleos.

this was circa 2007.

By: john

john — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:45:33 +0000

I swear I saw these for $99 on Amazon earlier today when I first read this article at the office, Now that I’m home they are $199 :(

By: bort

bort — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:38:43 +0000

fyrebug, from what I recall of a Wired article on Ugobe, the Pleo’s internals were pretty much scaled to a minimum that stilled allowed realistic movement. Any less and they may as well have just produced the Dino-Chi.

Pleo made few compromises, and unfortunately priced itself into a spot with few customers.

By: tr0nk

tr0nk — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:48:41 +0000

ya just ordered one on amazon for 100$ after seeing the xbee hack linked in the article

collectible or not, think of how much fun you’ll have hacking it vs. how much fun you’d have with the money you wont get with it sitting on a shelf :]

By: Haku

Haku — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:21:33 +0000

fyrebug, there are some videos of the prototypes of Pleo on YouTube, the skin looks much more realistic, I dislike the cartoonish paint job that they eventually settled on – it makes it look more like a young child’s toy than a miniature replica dinosaur.

I’d like to get a Pleo for $100 here in the UK but the prices are still too high and the exchange rate sucks so importing wouldn’t save much with the import tax they’re much more likely to tag on what with the ‘credit crunch’

Bloody rip-off Britain.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:20:34 +0000

Damn, dropped to $100. To buy or not to buy…

By: joshua

joshua — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:42:35 +0000

Personally I’d much rather see these hacked than sitting in a hermetically sealed box on some collector’s shelf.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:51:20 +0000

nice picture littlefoot…

By: amishx64

amishx64 — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:14:30 +0000

“you might want to refrain from hacking”

Wait…what is going on here? This is Hack a Day.

By: BigD145

BigD145 — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:42:34 +0000

predictable end to an expensive toy

By: fyrebug

fyrebug — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:39:12 +0000

they should have scaled back the design of the internals to the point it could have been sold for less than $100. for a childs toy it was overkill and way too complicated mechanically.

I’m sure their bankruptcy comes as a shock to no one. $250 for a child’s toy was a risky bet. especially one that quite frankly, looked stupid. the skin needed some design work.

By: commando

commando — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:36:18 +0000

i eat green berets for breakfast, and right now i’m very hungry

By: momotarosan

momotarosan — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:20:05 +0000

maybe cyberdyne will buy them out???: