Smart Bunny Reads Your Emails

A European company has created a robo-bunny that will read your emails, give you a weather forecast and perform a number of other mindless tasks at your will (my apologies to all the meteorologists worldwide for that crude remark). The bunny sells for approx $150US (at the time of writing) and is hooked up on a 24hr wifi connection.

http://www.nabaztag.com/vl/FR/index.jsp

The rise of the machines does not happen overnight (or does it? I forgot how the movie goes) but could this be how the machines will eventually take over the world? Like setting up the pawns in a game of chess.... Equip each one with laser eyes and chainsaw teeth, mark down the price to $19.99US and we potentially have an implementable force that can enforce curfews in small rural towns. Let's hope that there will be no software updates set to evil.

I wonder how long it will take before the robots begin to become self-aware, protect itself from danger and repair itself when it becomes damage. There are research studies at Cornell University that are currently looking into self-replicating robots. Here is a video of the robot prototype just in case you want to get paranoid thinking about stuff. Like whether or not if it's really just a matter of time before the machines see humans as a threat to the Earth's environment and begin to systematically wiping us out.