I’m not so sure what this wabbit is. It’s from Nabaztag family, dubbed the “Karotz”. The WiFi rabbit runs on Linux, with a 400MHz ARM CPU, 64MB of RAM and 256MB of storage, so it should have plenty of headroom for that vibrant hacker community that sprung up around the first two Nabaztags. Karotz can also run off batteries or be plugged in via USB, and has the same RFID reader functionality of the Nabaztag/tag. The biggest new feature is a webcam, which will purportedly have face recognition (to be paired with Nabaztag’s existing voice recognition), along with allowing you to check up on your home from a smartphone app.

Now if you look at the simple history of Nabaztag, they’re originally from a company called Voilet, which eventually went bankrupt, and was bought over, by MindScape a year ago. But the good thing is that they’re keeping the “Nabaztag” tag. Hopefully MindScape will have a better success than Voilet when marketing this Karotz, which will have a hard time promoting itself with such ‘norm’ feature, when smartphones these days are going 1GHz. Karotz will retail in France starting in November for €150 (about $210 US), followed by the UK in December and February in the US.

SOURCE via Karotz