Pleo News & Blog Posts

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• Pleo Celebrity Sightings at the 15th Annual "Kids For Kids" Celebrity Carnival
  [UPDATE: 10-2-2008] There are a bunch of great Pleo photos from the Carnival on Flickr; a lot more than the 3 I list in this blog post. Visit this Flickr page to…
• Cool Pleo Stuff From Amazon
  Don't you just love the guys that make their own stuff and put it on Amazon? Well there's loads to choose from to adorn your Pleo, from dog tags. But it's more…
• Good Pleo/Bad Pleo! - The BBC puts Pleo to the "nature vs. nurture" test
  The BBC recently created a humorous video where they put Pleo in a nature vs. nurture style test. More tongue-in-cheek than scientific, they hatched Pleo twice and raised him in two starkly…
• Pleo V2? Coming Soon
  I'm sure the guys at Ugobe must be working on Pleo V2! They wouldn't invested all that cash and employed all that staff for a one hit-wonder!So what next for Pleo?Well I…
• Pleosaurus Rex - Pleo lays waste to your favorite town!
  Ugobe has released another software download for Pleo that when written to an SD card, makes Pleo do his best dinosaur on a rampage impression. Pleosaurus Rex mode comes complete with Godzilla…
• Latest Pleo Prices
  As you can see from below there's still a lot of flexibility in the prices of the Pleo!Find Me A Gift is still the cheapest at £198.90, whilst Amazon have reduced their…
• Taiwanese music star dumps boyfriend for Pleo!
  Hello all. It's Labor Day weekend so this post will be short. According to this post on a Taiwanese Music blog, the female music star of the video below receives a Pleo…
• Latest Pleo Hack With Facial Recognition
  It seems that Pleo has not only been a cute toy for kids but also something for the newbie robotics engineer can get their teeth into. A team of, not-so-newbies, at the…
• We're Destined To Have Robo Relationship
  The Inquirer Reports that we're destined to have become more emotionally entwined with our reports in the future as they become more humanoid.Now if these robots become too life-like I'm going to…
• Pleo's Spa Day
  Another great video from Pleo World member maggie44n. In this video, her Pleo named Linus gets the full spa treatment at Changes Salon! Somehow maggie44n got the whole spa staff to play…
• New Ugobe Lifeforms Next Year (2009)!
  Gizmodo UK has a short but very interesting interview with Steve Bannerman, a new arrival to Ugobe's powerhouse marketing team. In it he talks about the 55,000 Pleos now out in the…
• Pleo Rides The Roomba!
  Hello everyone. I've been swamped with projects lately so I've been lagging on my Pleo coverage, but I wanted to pop you a quick note on a funny video I found. This…
• Never Be Left With A Dead Pleo He Can Be Reincarnated
  The news is that if your Pleo dies on you, i.e. stops working then you can get a new Pleo at a significant discount and they'll transplant the personality that your current…
• Pleo Reincarnation Program
  Ugobe has instituted a new program aimed at softening the blow of theloss of a Pleo after the 90 day warranty period. They call it thethe Pleo Reincarnation Program. If you find…
• It's Not The Death Of The Pleo - It's Only The Begining!!
  I've been one of the that have recently thought that the Pleo could be a one-hit wonder and that Ugobe may be moving on to other ventures. But the appointment of Nat…
• Pleo's future is brighter than ever! Here's 12.8 million reasons why
  Pleo has even more reason to smile and so do existing and new Pleo owners! Our favorite dinosaur pet manufacturer has just secured another 12.8 million dollars in venture capital specifically for…
• Pleo Costumes, Dino-MITE software, Watchdog Game, & Battery Update
  Happy Memorial Day weekend to my fellow USA residents. Here's a quick post to bring you up to date on several interesting developments in the land of Pleo.Pleo CostumesSince it's a holiday…
• May Update: The Best Pleo Buying Offers
  So there's more stock but where should you buy the Pleo from?The Toy Shop - £199.95Amazon - £199.99 & Free DeliveryGadget Shop - £199.99Play.com - £199.99 & Free DeliveryJohn Lewis - £229.95Pleo…
• Pleo meets Flipper and family!
  Hey everyone. I still owe you a post about Pleo and costumes, especially since Ugobe sent my Digger a dino T-shirt (which he refuses to take off, ever). Pleo World member and…
• Extra Batteries for US customers for Pleo
  Pardon the short post but I'm swamped with real life issues at the moment. I wanted to make sure you knew about Ugobe making available an extra battery for sale to its…
• Scott HanselMan's Pleo Review
  His review may be a tad out of date, but does everyone that has a Pleo think of it?The thing is, he reviewed it before the release of the new OS 1.1 update for Pleo's personality. Hopefully Scott will have the heart to download the…
• £6.6m Fund To Make Robots Friendlier - Report
  Apparently scientists in the EU have been giving £6.6m to make robots more friendly so they will be easier to work with humans. This is probably more relevant to my Domestic Robots…
• Pleo Life OS 1.1 Released
  If you've not updated your Pleo recently or just wanted to freshen him up a bit, there's a new update to his Life OS.You can up date here."Update process is easy and…
• When Pleos Attack! (It's usually funny.)
  I begin this latest post with the kind of humorous story Pleo owners have learned to expect from their amazing, complex, and cuddly little mischief makers. Below you will find a video…
• Pleo Dinosaur - New 1.1 update available!
  As promised, Ugobe's talented technical folk have been hard at work creating new and improved behaviors for your Pleo. Now there is a new update just released; the 1.1 software update. This…