They've invented The Dancing Sunflower 2.0.

Just to correct the reviewer, the AC adaptor is to be made available to buy from your local Sony Centre very shortly.

Maybe you'd lay out twenty quid for a bit of silliness like this, but for the cost you could get an Xbox360, or an Ipod Touch, or something equally cool.

If ever there was an opportunity for a video clip in the article, this is it.

This makes about as much sense to me as having a wooden spoon with build in air conditioning.

Paris....even she makes more sense than the Rolly.

and after reading this article I still don't know what it is. £240 of fail.

Did someone feed your Aibos own-brand batteries or something? Yes, it's pointless, but so what? It looks like ridiculous fun, and it's hardly going to cause people to become mass murderers or rapists, is it?

I want one. And I shall feed it drill'n'bass. Oh yes.

Even Paris can spot paid advertising.

"Guys, we need something to pull us out of this PS3 shaped hole"

"I know!..."

I'm in the middle of searching for a Linux Systems Administrator but could not resist a look at this thing in action :

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HTxdKi77G20

Thanks Sony - that's 5 minutes of my life I'll never get back

Gerald

ReadyPeople IT Recruitment

Got it a few weeks ago, and honestly it's rather nice. Do I regret the price of it? A little. Would I buy it again if I could go back and think it over? Yes. I like it, the wife likes it, it's fun to muck about with.

Xbox and iPod cool?.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I know its a total waste of money, but having seen some videos of this in action there is a very immature part of me that really, really wants one of these. In fact, its very pointlessness is key to its appeal. Put on a screen and some buttons and it loses the simple fun that I like about it.

in Japan over a year ago. I remember being struck by how much could have been achieved if the same amount of R&D had been applied to a more worthy goal.

It was pointless then and is pointless now.

"Playing with the Rolly is a bit like induling in a quick spot of hand-relief when you should be working."

so it *is* for tossers then. thought so.

Paris, because she never has to reattach *her* flaps

It's the best thing I've ever seen in my life!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HQYLFf-aUM

It's a finite improbability machine - they only people who don't like it and think it's a debasement of science are the people who don't get invited to "those kinds of parties"

Why does its shape remind me of some kind of sex-toy?

Paris - because she'd know where to stuff it, even if Sony don't.

This is the most intriguing bit of technology I have seen in a long time!!!

Want one!

Its *not* a sex toy - it's the Q-Bomb!!!!! Don't turn it up too loud, it's very sensitive to vibration!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053084/

I'll wait for them to bundle a combination satellite subwoofer and pointing device with it (a.k.a. the mouse that roars!) :-D

So what kind of moves does it perform if you pipe a porn soundtrack through it? Yeowch - I wouldn't think those flapping ears are trouser-friendly.

Otherwise it seems a pointless waste of money for all but the wealthy.

..give the little thing a break!

over priced yes

amazingly fun & cute (yes, cute, im a girl) yes indeed!

warm ur hearts, its christmas!

...all the conscience and economic nous, not to mention common touch, of an AIBO? I really can't picture anyone wanting to vote for them, who is either over the age of, say, 33, or who hasn't been in a coma for the last two or three decades.

It looks awesome. These guys have no sense of humour don't listen to them.

Mines the one with flashing lights coming out the pockets.

OK, it's pointless in my age bracket (40+), but THIS is just a great piece of thinking or at least creating. It needs to be viewed more as a piece of tech art than a useful device, and as THAT it is blooming successful. It's got a nice piece of industrial design, cool aesthetics, let's the user actually create with it inteteractively, and is fun at parties.

If you can't see the value in that, then as someone observed above, you probably don't get invited to those sorts of parties, probably because you are so literal and dull that your company is not that interesting.

As for the price, most art costs a LOT more than the tubes of oil paints and the canvass...why should this be different?

I will never buy one, but I am glad they exist, just to show that cool technology can be used for something other than powering autonomous, unmanned carrier-based bombers...