Nabaztag

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Nabaztag

A Nabaztag (from Armenian : Nabaztag - hare) is a communicating object in the form of a stylized hare .

Creation and further development

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

At the beginning of December 2006 the Nabaztag / tag was presented. A microphone is attached at navel level, which allows the rabbit to be controlled by voice and to send messages to other Nabaztag's. Streaming audio content can also be played, which enables the use of web radio services. The new model is also able to recognize RFID tags. The first application of the RFID tags took place in December 2007 in cooperation with Gallimard Jeunesse . Violet and Gallimard published the first book with an RFID chip that can be recognized and read by the Nabaztag. In November 2008 Violet presented the first RFID chips that can be connected to everyday objects in order to assign them to these applications. In addition, the rabbit can now use WPA encryption and has a volume control on the back.

Development of the service

Until mid-2009, the Violet company operated the servers necessary for using the Internet. These were taken over by Mindscape after Violet's bankruptcy (2009). On July 27, 2011, Mindscape shut down the servers necessary for the operation of the Nabaztag bunnies and published the source code of the servers as open source. The Nabaztag can only be used with local and privately operated servers (e.g. OpenNab).

technical features

The Nabaztag is 23 centimeters high, weighs 418 grams and is connected to the Internet via WLAN 802.11b / g . He communicates with his user by voice, light signals or ear movements. He informs z. B. about the weather , stock prices , air quality , road traffic or incoming e-mails. The power consumption is about 7 watts (light, speakers and ears), in standby mode it consumes less than 1 watt.

With these devices there is no local signal processing, but what is recorded by the sensors is transmitted to external servers. There the data is processed (audio to text conversion), the signal processing takes place, a response is generated and this is transmitted to the user and delivered by the device.

Internet of things

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

  • me: ror
  • ztamp: s
  • nano: ztag
  • Dal: dal
  • Chumby
  • Karotz

Web links

  • [1] Technical description of the Nabaz day (French)
  • [2] Alternative, still working server for the operation of the Nabaztag V1 and V2 (multilingual)
  • Nabaz'mob , opera for 100 Nabaztag, by Antoine Schmitt and Jean-Jacques Birgé
  • chumby.com - Chumby Industries website