http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/ Engadget Comments for USB fish bowl: placeshift feeding, settings -- but not your love http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/May 2nd 2007 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/
maybe for a beta fish, maybe, and only one.

does any one know the actual size of it?

maybe it just looks small... maybe its wide.]]>May 2nd 2007 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/May 2nd 2007 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/May 2nd 2007 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/
People flat out don't understand aquariums and these companies that tout these "mini" setups are just out to make a buck and completely aware and indifferent to the suffering they cause.

I worked in a pet store for many years through school during the "aqua baby" craze and after a while we just started telling people to leave if they insisted their half pint tank was "doing great except the fish kept dying".

Most of the fish you see in the aquarium trade can live many years - the smallest can easily live 5 years and larger fish (barbs, angelfish, etc) can live a decade in reasonably good water. Most, after capture (or export from farms in Asia) live perhaps a few months, and the only reason for this is human greed (overpacking shipping boxes) and human ignorance (the "aquarists").]]>May 2nd 2007 6:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/May 2nd 2007 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/May 2nd 2007 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/May 2nd 2007 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/
Did you just compare these small fish tanks to German concentration camps????? Wow...

If these fish were in the wild they'd probably be eaten by larger fish and live much shorter lifespans. ]]>May 2nd 2007 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/May 2nd 2007 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/May 2nd 2007 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/How long would YOU last in the wild? I have a feeling very few people on here would last more than a week or two. Our fishtank happens to be cities and towns and 'civilization'. Sticking fish in tanks this small is equivilent to locking you in your room. Sure, you could survive there, but would you really want to? Well, I suppose a lot of you already do, but remember: fish don't have computers.]]>May 2nd 2007 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/May 2nd 2007 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/May 2nd 2007 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/
In my experience, animals know a lot more than we credit them with. I discovered quite accidentally that I can give my dog a command in english or german and either way she does it. And no, we never taught her German, and she never had any other trainers in her life or anything...I just decided to see what would happen if
I said something to her in German, and she understood exactly what I meant. Hell of a lot more than a human would know.
And no, I am not saying a fish is as smart as a dog, I understand their brain is much smaller, but studies do show that fish are capable of feeling pain, and I'm sure there would be some pain associated with being constantly poisoned by contaminated water.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3673]]>May 2nd 2007 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/]]>May 2nd 2007 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/May 2nd 2007 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/May 2nd 2007 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/May 2nd 2007 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/May 2nd 2007 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/
On a side note, since it is powered via USB, wouldn't shutting your PC off turn the tank off as well?

How many people do you think will in inadvertently kill their fish because they shut down their PC and left for a few days? Do I smell lawsuits?

No, never mind, thats just dead fish...]]>May 2nd 2007 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/May 2nd 2007 10:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/May 2nd 2007 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/
People, please remember, FINDING NEMO WASN'T TRUE!]]>May 2nd 2007 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/Jul 14th 2007 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/
That sentence sucks grammatically.]]>May 3rd 2007 12:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/
Sorry had to laugh at the comparing these fish to concentration camp Jews. So not funny but it is!!]]>May 3rd 2007 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/02/usb-fish-bowl-placeshift-feeding-settings-but-not-your-love/May 4th 2007 7:18AM