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Spykee the Skype Robot Gets Three Friends With iPod Dock Crotches
Posted by Gizmodo US Edition at 12:06 PM on January 5, 2008
Spykee, the built-it-yourself Skype robot, just got three different models that you can build him into—one of which is a her. We've got the first images of the Spykee Cell, Spykee Vox and Spykee Miss, all of which have a video camera, MP3 player, VoIP phone, microphone, louspeaker, motors, and the ability to shove an iPod into its crotch. The best thing about this guy is that you can control him from anywhere in the internet. Well, maybe that'd be the second best thing—the first best is still the fact that he has an iPod where his junk should be. Get yours from Erector. [Erector]
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Roflcopter_Down
Posted 11:21 PM 4/1/08
Is that an iPod Touch that looks likes an iPhone or an iPhone that looks like an iPod Touch?
Roflcopter_Down
Jasoncscs
Posted 11:03 PM 4/1/08
Ah...But the fun ,like erector, is in the building.
Jasoncscs
Reilaos, Original Asus Fanboy
Posted 10:18 PM 4/1/08
So it's got it's junk visible, and it comes from Erector... Is there really a point from assembling a joke from this? It comes premade already.
Reilaos, Original Asus Fanboy
azteck
Posted 9:29 PM 4/1/08
She sure does
azteck
GatorGiz
Posted 9:10 PM 4/1/08
That's the same place I keep my ipod. My wife loves it!
GatorGiz
OMG!!! Ponies!!!
Posted 9:09 PM 4/1/08
Get used to it folks. When the robots rise up, it'll be us where the iPhone is.
OMG!!! Ponies!!!
strider_mt2k
Posted 8:43 PM 4/1/08
You know, the jokes kinda write themselves with something like this.
strider_mt2k
liquidsoapdispenser
Posted 12:03 AM 5/1/08
What, no mention by Gizmodo that retailers took orders for Spykee back in September (if not earlier), and the expected shipping date started at mid-October, then went to December, then to January, and now (supposedly) to March?
liquidsoapdispenser
chapu
Posted 3:25 AM 5/1/08
These robots will fuck your ears.
chapu
weatherman
Posted 6:36 AM 5/1/08
@liquidsoapdispenser: Yeah - three new models when the first one hasn't even shipped yet?
And what the hell is putting an ipod in a Spykee supposed to do anyway? It makes no sense at all to me. The original Spykee can was supposed to be able to play music over wifi anyway - a pointless feature that eliminates the need for an ipod on board. It's almost like the PR department is controlling the product development; "if we put an ipod dock in it, gadget sites are sure to blog the hell out of it. Who cares that we don't actually have a product."
weatherman
Walter
Posted 8:01 AM 5/1/08
@GatorGiz: on vibrate I assume
Walter
GizFanAlpha
Posted 1:30 PM 5/1/08
This thing is pretty creepy.
GizFanAlpha
liquidsoapdispenser
Posted 12:11 PM 5/1/08
@weatherman: Damn straight. Gizmodo, don't be pawns to this marketing BS, how about a real investigative article on this robot that keeps getting promoted (by Gizmodo and others) as a product that a consumer could actually buy, but as far as I am concerned, is pure vapor?
liquidsoapdispenser
gary_slamson.
Posted 10:00 PM 4/1/08
lame. the comments, the editorial not the product.
gary_slamson.