Nabaztag hops into the US

Alright everyone, calm yourselves, we have some news: not a year and a couple of weeks since the day we first wrote about the Nabaztag, it's found a US distributor. You'll never guess who's picked it up, too. Ok, ok, we'll tell you, it's ThinkGeek. We know, you're probably hyperventilating right now, especially if you were the intended recipient of a WiFi rabbit from Engadget's Valentine's Day gift guide, but got flimflammed out getting it because it was previously only available from French sites. Well, it's time to put up a fuss, because this thing'll set you or your kind, gift giving significant other back $150 -- about right, including interest, if they never got you anything for Vday. Bienvenue en Amérique, lapin.

[Thanks, Veronica]

[Juice @ Apr 28th 2006 9:27AM]

I might get one of these.

[David @ Apr 28th 2006 9:36AM]

Correct spelling : Bienvenue en Am?que lapin

I bought one for a friend, this is a funny piece of hardware, moving its ears of you receive an email for example... There is a developper API enabling you to personnalize the way it reacts to some events (meteo, emails etc)

[Manic @ Apr 28th 2006 9:57AM]

Is the inventor of this item Armenian, cause "Nabaztag" means bunny in Armenian language.

[Bach @ Apr 28th 2006 12:15PM]

The inventor is not Armenian iirc, but it's true that it got its name from armenian bunny

[kitty @ Apr 28th 2006 12:19PM]

I have one of these and they are a lot of fun, I think they might need to ramp up the service a bit if they intend to take on the US It can be a bit flakey at times.

[aram @ Apr 28th 2006 12:19PM]

yes, i was very surprised to see the name of this. nabaztag does in fact mean rabbit in armenian. this cannot be a coinsidence.

[Morbo @ Apr 28th 2006 3:46PM]

I bought two of them. One for a woman I know and one for myself. Its very cool. We set ours to 'commune' (I think of that star trek 'return of the archons', happy communing! :) ).

Anyway once set to commune, if you move the ears on one, the other ones ears move too shortly there after (seems < 1minute). This is nice since we can tell when we are home.

I bought ours from Fnac and had a good test of my HS french! :)

[crazy cat lday @ Apr 30th 2006 7:03PM]

Are they going to create any other animals other than rabbits?

[Yasmine @ May 9th 2006 10:54AM]

Hello,


Ye, one of the creator of the Nabaztag is armenian. His name is Rafi Haladjian. Pioneer of Internet in France, who created Francenet that he sold to British Telecom. He is co founder of Violet, the creators of Nabaztag (and the Dal lamp, if you heard of it, and Stelight, they are specialized in intelligent ambiant devices) and founder of Ozone, since he is one of the pioneer of WI-FI in France too. Pretty soon Paris will be all connected through WI-FI thanks to his light antennas.

I don't think there will be any other animal from our company, if anything. But there'll probably be copies here and then of the concept.

If you have any questions you can contact [e-mail]

Beautiful day to all,
y