Topic: Submit your ideas for new services to be offered officially by Violet!

Hey everyone! Over here at Violet we are always looking for new ideas for official services. We want to know what you want your Nabaztag to do! We understand that not everyone is into programming but that doesn't mean your voice shouldn't be heard! Let us know what you think would be a useful or fun application for the rabbit to perform and we will consider your ideas in order to create new and cool services! Post your ideas here on this forum or if you want it to be a secret (because it's just that good!) send it via bunny message to Gob! happy brainstorming!

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I'm sure there are plenty of new features coming with the new API and lot's of new exciting things to suggest, but I'd settle for Gmail compatability for now. Please Please Please!

Kanji :-)

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Belly button transplant services for our v1 rabbits ?

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Shaun wrote:

Belly button transplant services for our v1 rabbits ?

big_smile

Fear of Hopping
The intimate thoughts of a girl and her Nabaztag.

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How about the ability to use V2 as a Skype Phone? :-)

Nabzname - FrankTheBunny
Feel free to add me and send some messages!

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Skype phone is a very likely app that will be created as there is also a headphone jack on the back of tag/tag to eliminate echo from the speaker to the microphone. i imagine that you'll be able to set up some voice commanded speed dial presets like "call momma" and the rabbit will call your mom up directly and your skype account will be debited for any charges. great idea jaina!

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I second the transplants for V1 rabbits, or a trade in program tongue

I would love it if my bunny could read for me my emails.
But the thing I would really like, is if he could play internet radio. Have a way of setting certain times every day he goes to an internet radio site (or ideally picks one from a list on his own), and listens to music.

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Calcartman wrote:

I second the transplants for V1 rabbits, or a trade in program tongue

I would love it if my bunny could read for me my emails.
But the thing I would really like, is if he could play internet radio. Have a way of setting certain times every day he goes to an internet radio site (or ideally picks one from a list on his own), and listens to music.

Transplants or trade in's would be nice, but I can see why they won't, however a discounted new bunny for existing users could be done 10% discount maybe?

Last edited by Dean (2006-12-12 21:32:40)

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I can see where you guys are coming from about some sort of discount for those that already have rabbits but this, i'm afraid, just isn't going to happen. believe me, i even mentioned it myself at the office and somebody explained it to me in really simple terms. it's just like buying the latest ipod or powerbook, you know it's the latest one but that mac will put out a newer and better one in less than a year (if you don't time it right, yours might be out-dated within a couple months) and I don't think Apple/Mac is going to be giving out coupons to existing customers. In my opinion, I don't see Nabz V1 as obsolete just because tag/tag has come out. when i get my tag/tag (and yes, i have to buy him like everyone else even though i work for Violet) i'll probably keep him at home and my V1 in the office. More and more services are being created all the time for both versions and V1's utility will only grow. he's not all of a sudden going to stop working and tire out his services and end up collecting dust in a closet. that's the cool thing about the whole open API, Nabaztag as a concept is unfinished and is open to the user to create more and more uses for him. Sure tag/tag has some cool new features and abilities but please, for the sake of the bunnies, don't throw out your V1. Oh yeah, if you really do plan on abandoning your bunny, at least send him to beckynot's orphanage!

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Oh yeah, Calcartman, tag/tag will have the ability to play unlimited internet radio and podcasts at times you choose!

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I would REALY like to see a firmware upgrade on the V1.  The BIG short commings is the 45s limit, without being abel to streaming audio.  The microphone would be nice, but streaming audio is more important.

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I would like to see WPA support for the V1 rabbit.

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Here's a couple of things I'd love my rabbit to be able to do:

Skype Voicemail:
I'm not bothered with trying to use my rabbit as a skype phone per say, but it would be nice if I could link my rabbit with my skype account in someway so that when I press my bunny's button to play old messages, it would also collect and play any voicemail I have on my skype account.

Extended Alerts for GTalk/Jabber:
I believe there is already some gtalk support but it would be nice if that could be extended for all jabber accounts (jabber being the protocol that GTalk uses). Alerts for people coming online and offline, but also including in this support for transports (transport online/offline) and the ability to allow the rabbit to have a low priority presence to enable another method for quickly sending messages to your rabbit (ie: a message sent direct to the jabber account and presence of "example@jabber.com/nabaztag" would be collected to played by the rabbit one time only bypassing the normal message system.

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Rabbit wakes up then goes down stairs and makes me a cuppa? big_smile lol

Rabbit Name:- MagicMarvin

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Some tool so users can setup a Nabaztag portal to take some load away from the Violet servers ? Something like a torrent network, only with bunnies tongue

Text to MP3 convertor inside the Nabaztag itself instead of having the site decode the text, then upload the MP3 would save loads of bandwidth aswell. I'm not sure how much disk space such a convertor would use, but I read somewhere that a Nabs has about 60 MB of space ?

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Raiko wrote:

Some tool so users can setup a Nabaztag portal to take some load away from the Violet servers ? Something like a torrent network, only with bunnies tongue ?

Great idea.  We need some kind of b2b network (bunny2bunny) smile

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hello CAlsim8,

Something that would be great to have, maybe for V3 or V4 is a camera and allow the rabbit to have movement (like a robot).
Cool right ? Imagine the power of the rabbit with such features ...

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I'd like it to be able to link to my mobile, then read out my texts, tell me who is ringing and maybe use bunny to sent SMS to other people - I believe that the french bunnies do something with SMS already. *not sure what though*

And support for MSN messenger, tell me when people come online.

And email alerts for Hotmail too.

Nabzname - FrankTheBunny
Feel free to add me and send some messages!

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SKYPE stuff sounds awsome hope you can do that smile I use TeamSpeak and Ventrillo what about them??
Again yes MS Messenger please!!

How about....

NabDictionary - Voice recogintion and definition look up of a word which is then read back to you. Could be quite good for kids? But I guess you would need to use Googles define:<word here> search dunno how they would feel about that hmm

NabShopping - Same as above but the rabbit hunts down items on the web for you to buy and tells you how much they cost and where to buy them from. Perhaps you could link up a service with Amazon, Play or even Apple etc to feed into their services??? I can just see myself asking my rabbit to check Amazon for the price of a book wink

NabJournal/Blog - Record quick Blog snippets for a Nab journal and share with friends or make into Nabcasts?

MS Exchange email support would be nice esp with the push stuff now running on most servers wink

SMS in the UK would be nice

Ability for end users to remove rabbits' MAC address from Nab accounts would be useful tongue

Last edited by grantnaz (2006-12-29 18:36:07)

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Right now you can set times on which the Nabaztag goes to sleep. Weekend times, and week times. I noticed that friday evening, my rabbit went to bed early. On sunday however, it went to bed way too late tongue

It would be nice if a weekend goes from friday evening to sunday morning, so people can enjoy the Nab until friday late, but aren't kept awake by it on sunday evening smile

Another idea is to use a http POST instead of a GET for people to use with their programs, because the token and serial are unencrypted in the URL. Also, there's a limit of characters with http GET, so it's not possible to make long choreographies (in the future).

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Hows about an option to send same message to everyone in your friends list big_smile

Rabbit Name:- MagicMarvin

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Magician33 wrote:

Hows about an option to send same message to everyone in your friends list big_smile

Only problem is this could be abused sad

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grantnaz wrote:

Only problem is this could be abused sad

The only thing which I'ld say are needed for the feature to be decent would be to have it so that you can send the same message to everyone in your friends list (or a list of people) - so long as you are also in their friends list.

As if I have say, "Roy" in my friends list then the chance is that I wont be bothered if "Roy" sends me a load of messages since .. well.. he's my friend.

PS: Please note that "Roy" is not currently my friend and I do not claim such friendship.. it was just the first name that jumped into my head.
PPS: Please also note that the last PS does in no shape or form mean that "Roy" would not be a great person to have as a friend nor does it mean that I would not want to be his friend... it just means I don't know him... yet!
PPSS: Please note that the fact that I am writing so many PS style statements is because I'm trying to avoid doing any real work, and hope you all have a great holiday! smile

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O.k I can live with that! U need each other in friends list to send same message to everyone.

Rabbit Name:- MagicMarvin

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I think that Violet are missing a trick by not having an Exchange calender plug-in.  It would be great if you could upload your meetings etc into my bunny, and then have him shout at me that in 30 mins I have to go to x, y or z, or a phone call to be made etc.

That would make my bunny-wabbit truely useful!

I know that there is a Google calender plug-in, but for those of us that don't want to migrate etc this would be most excellent!

The_ginger_ninja