Pleo News & Blog Posts

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• Innvo Labs "Herd Deal", Bob The Pleo Forums, and More Info from Innvo Labs
  Build Your Own Pleo Herd With Some Help From Innvo LabsInnvo Labs, the company that revived the Pleo line, is currently offering a reward to loyal Pleo owners in the form of…
• The Inside Story Behind Pleo’s Rise, Fall, and Resurrection
  [NOTE: For impatient Pleo owners dying to know about repairs, warranty service, batteries, chargers and more. You'll find the interview with Derek further down the page]Today I had an amazing 1-hour conversation…
• Pleo's Back! - Pleo World online store now selling Pleos, batteries, chargers, and adapters again
  I know many of you have been waiting a long time for this news. Just recently, the Pleo World online store started selling Pleos, batteries, chargers, and adapters again under the new…
• Pleo's back! - Jetta Company, Limited acquires Ugobe and vows to continue the line
  Today there is wonderful news for the Pleo community. Jetta Company Limited, the company that manufactured the Pleo baby robot dinosaur for Ugobe, bought the intellectual property rights and other assets at…
• So The Pleo Was Star Of the Apprentice - And I Missed It
  Apparently The Pleo was star of the The Apprentice and I chuffing missed it! Hopefully this will mean that Ugobe will keep it going in some way or another after they "went…
• Ugobe files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy
  Hello everyone,Important Update as of June 8, 2009 - PLEO IS BACK IS AND BETTER THAN EVER! Please read this wonderful update post!I will keep this post short since I'm very saddened…
• United Kingdom Gladly Welcomes New Adorable Green Overlord
  This post is for all of you that own Pleos or are thinking of getting one. Wired/UK writer Katie Scott has fallen hard for our wonderful blue-eyed baby dino friend. In one…
• Ugobe Status Update and Where To Get Pleo Downloads For Now
  UPDATE: The Ugobe and Pleo World web sites are back up. As I said the "Magpie" pages were placeholder pages.I'll be adding posts as I get new substantial news reports about Ugobe.…
• Notes From A Petulant Pleo : Digger's Diary
  Hello everyone,I've been out of touch for a long while, partly due to the current economic times and partly due to a project I've been pursuing for months now that is of…
• Download the Halloween Pleo Personality
  Ugobe have released the new Halloween personality. I'm going to install it and take some video. Has anyone else done it yet?
• Help Save Pleo From Being Fed To The Dogs!
  Recently I came across Tails Of The City, a very lovely blog about pets and their owners in the Bay Area, or in blog author Amelia Glynn's own words:"Welcome to Tails of…
• 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…