{"id":914,"date":"2006-09-22T08:26:17","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T13:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2006\/09\/22\/1158931577526.html"},"modified":"2006-09-22T08:26:17","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T13:26:17","slug":"blogentry-betting-on-toy-futures-tmx-elmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] Betting on Toy Futures : TMX Elmo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe align=&#034;right&#034; src=&#034;http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=suchstuff-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B000ETRE0Q&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;bg1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;f=ifr&#034; style=&#034;width:120px;height:240px;&#034; scrolling=&#034;no&#034; marginwidth=&#034;0&#034; marginheight=&#034;0&#034; frameborder=&#034;0&#034;><\/iframe>Ok, the new Elmo is out, and there&#039;s video available for what he does.  Basically you keep tickling him until he does the robotic equivalent of peeing himself.  Think I&#039;m kidding?  Watch the video&#8230;<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<object width=&#034;425&#034; height=&#034;350&#034;><param name=&#034;movie&#034; value=&#034;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oCmAD-z7-mA&#034;><\/param><param name=&#034;wmode&#034; value=&#034;transparent&#034;><\/param><embed src=&#034;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oCmAD-z7-mA&#034; type=&#034;application\/x-shockwave-flash&#034; wmode=&#034;transparent&#034; width=&#034;425&#034; height=&#034;350&#034;><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p\/>It&#039;s interesting from a robotics perspective.  The hand slapping is stupid looking, but the ingenuity of having him bend forward and then whip himself backward as a way of falling over is neat.  He doesn&#039;t look especially cuddly, but none of the robotic toys do.  I can&#039;t see my kids insisting on carrying Elmo around with them when we go places.<\/p>\n<p\/>However, that can&#039;t stop one from asking the question of whether to buy TMX Elmo anyway.  Will this be the next big thing?  Will he be selling for $2000 on eBay come Christmas time?  Is $40 now a good investment?  It&#039;s an interesting call.  I could buy two of them now, and then if they skyrocket in price, sell them before the holidays, and if they don&#039;t, just give them to the kids.  Decisions, decisions.  (Actually I see that they&#039;re already long gone at $40, Amazon is selling them in the shops for a minimum of $100.  I guess that answers that question!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, the new Elmo is out, and there&#039;s video available for what he does. Basically you keep tickling him until he does the robotic equivalent of peeing himself. Think I&#039;m kidding? Watch the video&#8230; It&#039;s interesting from a robotics perspective. The hand slapping is stupid looking, but the ingenuity of having him bend forward and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}