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Sometimes there comes something that you never knew you could use or want until you see it.  For instance, I bet you never thought you could want or use an Internet-capable rabbit that can read RFID tags, play music, give you news or a ton of other things.  You may have heard of such a thing before and seen it around the Internet a few times, but now its newest form is finally coming to the US.

The adorable little rabbit it actually called the Nabaztag:tag.  It connects to a wireless Internet connection, and can be programmed to do a great many things. 

You can set it to play music at a certain time to wake you up to start your day.  Then you can set it to read you the latest news headlines from places such as the New York Times at a set time or as soon as they come it.  The RFID tags mentioned earlier can be applied to just about anything and can be programmed to activate any feature such as e-mailing you when your kid’s RFID tag is passed in front of it and reading your kid any messages you might leave.

The Nabaztag:tag also has some interesting social features such as rabbit to rabbit communication through reading e-mail, recorded messages or MP3s.  You can even make move your friend’s rabbit’s ears when you move yours, which is a bit pointless but still pretty cool.  There’s a lot of uses for the Nabaztag:tag, even if it is a bit superfluous. 

Some of the features are things you can easily get from a computer, but some, like the RFID tags are unique.  It’s selling online in the US for $99 during the “special winter sale,” which isn’t a bad price at all for the little rabbit.  It might be hard to use all of the features without convincing a friend to get one as well.  Or, you could just use the iPhone app to mess around with it and the unknowing people around it.

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