Nabaztag

A Nabaztag ( Armenian by: Nabaztag - Hare ) is a communicating object in the shape of a stylized rabbit.

Emergence and development

The Nabaztag was designed by Rafi Haladjian and Olivier Mével. The first versions of the Webhasen developed by the School of Engineering ESME Sudia in Ivry -sur -Seine. The French company Violet acquired the technical and commercial rights and produced the rabbit.

In early December 2006, the Nabaztag / tag is presented. At navel height, a microphone is attached, which allows to control the rabbit by voice and to send other messages Nabaztag. In addition, streaming audio content can be played, making the use of internet radio services is made possible. The new model is also able to recognize the RFID tag. The first application of the RFID tags was held in cooperation with Gallimard Jeunesse in December 2007. Violet and Gallimard published the first book with an RFID chip that can be detected and read by the Nabaztag. In November 2008, Violet presented the first RFID chips, which can be connected with the everyday objects to map these applications. In addition, the hare now dominates the WPA encryption and has a rear-panel volume control.

Development of Services

By mid-2009 the company Violet operation necessary for the use of the Internet rabbits server. These were taken after the insolvency of Violet ( 2009) by Mindscape. On July 27, 2011 Mindscape has shut necessary for the operation of the Nabaztag rabbit server and released the source code of the server as open source. The Nabaztag can be used only with local and privately operated servers (eg OpenNab ) on.

Technical Features

The Nabaztag is 23 centimeters high, weighs 418 grams and is connected via Wi-Fi 802.11b / g with the Internet. It communicates with its user by voice, light signals or ear movements. He informed eg about the weather, stock quotes, air quality, road traffic or incoming e -mails. The power consumption is approximately 7 Watts (light, speakers and ears), in standby mode, it takes less than 1 watt on.

In these devices, no local signal processing takes place, but that is picked up by the sensors is transmitted to external servers. There, the data are processed (audio to text conversion, the signal processing takes place, a response is generated and this transferred to the user and delivered by the device.

Internet of Things

There are other devices that can communicate via the so-called Internet of Things with the Nabaztag. These are:

• Me: ror
• Ztamp: s
• Nano: ztag
• Dal: dal
• Chumby
• Karotz