Regine February 20, 2006 gadgets

iPod to meet Tamagotchi

Japanese company Konami will issue this summer a curious LCD-based portable game in which the player “raises” virtual characters by giving them a “steady diet” of music:

“When the game, called Otoizm, is connected to a MP3 player, various characters appear according to the type of music being played.

The game classifies music into 19 types, and the growth and type of character produced changes according to the type of music it listens to. More than 30 kinds of characters can be created.”

Via Nikkei.

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Gizmodo on February 20, 2006 at 9:58 pm

iPodmagotchi

Much to the delight of Japanese school girls everywhere, Konami is developing a toy that will fuse two of biggest trends out there: MP3 players and portable, digital pets. This toy is called the Otoizm. Otoizm will require people to…
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dana lombardo on March 15, 2006 at 2:24 pm

this looks like it will get a lot of attention…something like this can really make a big trend happen this summer. i have never seen something like this before. it looks like it will be a lot of fun.