But of course this means a hack which tells chumby knews my wish list and also a hack which chumby always on the prowl..maybe it be photos, EPC tags, Digg, slashdot or whatever..

We think the rabbit’s cute too. I have one, only I haven’t had the time to figure out what it’s saying to me, e.g., exactly what does it mean when it moves its ears and flashes its blue LEDs again? Is it air quality, the weather tomorrow, or do I have a message? My life’s a little too busy right now to learn rabbit talk :^)

We tried to be a lot more open and direct with the chumby. We’re looking to make people’s lives simpler and more synchronized, not give them still more things to learn and have to deal with. Maybe we should do a “Nabaztag widget” that takes signals from your rabbit and displays them in plain language on your chumby screen so you know what the heck the rabbit is saying to you! :^)

But, again, let a thousand flowers bloom! Many approaches to attack the same modern problems.

From above:

“Other attempts we’ve seen at passive or “ambient” information devices seem to us to be lacking the level of depth and granularity of information we need from our Net lives. They quickly fail to capture any of our attention, not even some of it, and they can’t be easily modified to serve anything other than the specific limited purpose for which they were designed. They seem to us to have limited value and limited attention “shelf life.” But for those of you designing and selling these devices: we’re all on the same team, we have a lot in common, we all are going after the same problem, and let’s “let a thousand flowers bloom” in trying to solve it. Let’s find better ways to integrate our two lives!”