After BBC article: cellularsquirrel videos August 26, 2005 5041 hits 1843 August 27, 2005 1221 hits 483 August 28, 2005 778 hits 295 August 29, 2005 2975 hits 657 August 30, 2005 3199 hits 701 August 31, 2005 573 hits 406 Sept 1, 2005 216 hits 62 Sept 2, 2005 222 hits 92 ---------------------------------------------------------- total so far 14225 hits 4539 http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/business/story/2005/08/050826_ra-mobile-squirrel.shtml (Persian) http://robots.net/article/1612.html http://breedband.telenet.be/nieuws/ http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/bil/story/0,2789,687081,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/misc/newsid_4187000/4187440.stm http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/44572 http://www.giornaletecnologico.it:8080/telefonia/200507/26/42de4ede01247/ http://dk.compulenta.ru/224915/?r1=rss&r2=remote http://spaces.msn.com/members/unlugged0121/ http://www.forums.woodnet.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=1827119&page=7&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=2 "The pictures and stuff are ROFLMAO funny, but did you happen to read the text, what the actual concept is? It's really rather interesting." http://www.jy.lv/index.php?zoomzina=716 (Latvia) http://www.computerra.ru/news/224915/ http://www.idg.se/blogg/default.asp http://www.omni.lt/?i$9359_16009$z_303921 (Lithuania) http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyonder/getContent.do?page=949540&group=bbs_explore Comic: http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=115 ==================================== After vgcats article: http://forum.vgcats.com/showpost.php?p=113224 (forum thread, August 31, 2005) http://forum.vgcats.com/showthread.php?p=113240&highlight=squirrel#post113240 http://vgcats.com/ (front page, September 14, 2005) "And speaking of phones, it's the squirrel phone (http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/phd/cellularsquirrel/). What a novel idea (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=115)." cellularsquirrel videos September 14, 2005 7304 hits 612 September 15, 2005 8671 hits 840 September 16, 2005 3315 hits 263 September 17, 2005 2386 hits 210 September 18, 2005 2149 hits 193 September 19, 2005 1559 hits 155 September 20, 2005 723 hits 80 September 21, 2005 764 hits 114 September 22, 2005 598 hits 93 September 23, 2005 447 hits 71 September 24, 2005 343 hits 34 September 25, 2005 391 hits 39 September 26, 2005 871 hits 63 September 27, 2005 1164 hits 64 September 28, 2005 531 hits 36 September 29, 2005 269 hits 26 September 30, 2005 214 hits 40 ---------------------------------------------------------- total so far 31699 hits 2933 ---- http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=82277 "Quite simply, it's adorable. Of course, it's a work in progress, but it's not REALLY a Cellular Squirrel. Currently, it's tied to a big computer, so it's not mobile, and it's not the phone itself, it's an intermediary. Eventually, it'll likely pack all the gear inside that adorable fluffy tail. The concept is; The squirrel is 'Asleep' until someone calls you. Then it starts to wake up, but remains in a dopey, not-completely-awake manner while its systems chat with a caller to find the relevance of the call. It can either hang up if the call is meaningless, take a message, relay basic information to the caller, or try and get your attention. If it decides you actually should answer, it wakes up fully, and starts waving its head and arms around until you answer, or until it decides you're not paying attention or are asleep. There's no actual ringing. When the call is over, it goes back to sleep. All of this while looking absolutely adorable. D'aww. And, before anyone else gets to it: Yes, VG Cats did a strip. " "Mechano-squirrel skeleton = CREEPY Other than that, it's pretty darn cool. Though, if I'm understanding this right, at some point you WILL have to talk into the squirrel. That'll just be weird. " "Hmmm. Sounds like Colin from Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson. You know the fark edition will be very male, though" http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cyberpunk/monalisa.shtml "The ghost woke to Kumiko's touch as they began their descent into Heathrow. The fifty-first generation of Maas-Neotek biochips conjured up an indistinct figure on the seat beside her, a boy out of some faded hunting print, legs crossed casually in tan breeches and riding boots. "Hullo," the ghost said. Kumiko blinked, opened her hand. The boy flickered and was gone. She looked down at the smooth little unit in her palm and slowly closed her fingers. " 'Lo again," he said. "Name's Colin. Yours?" She stared. His eyes were bright green smoke, his high forehead pale and smooth under an unruly dark forelock. She could see the seats across the aisle through the glint of his teeth. "If it's a bit too spectral for you," he said, with a grin, "we can up the rez. . . ." And he was there for an instant, uncomfortably sharp and real, the nap on the lapels of his dark coat vibrating with hallucinatory clarity. "Runs the battery down, though," he said, and faded to his prior state. "Didn't get your name." The grin again. "You aren't real," she said sternly. He shrugged. "Needn't speak out loud, miss. Fellow passengers might think you a bit odd, if you take my meaning. Subvocal's the way. I pick it all up through the skin. . . ." He uncrossed his legs and stretched, hands clasped behind his head. "Seatbelt, miss. I needn't buckle up myself, of course, being, as you've pointed out, unreal." Kumiko frowned and tossed the unit into the ghost's lap. He vanished. She fastened her seatbelt, glanced at the thing, hesitated, then picked it up again. "First time in London, then?" he asked, swirling in from the periphery of her vision. She nodded in spite of herself. "You don't mind flying? Doesn't frighten you?" She shook her head, feeling ridiculous. "Never mind," the ghost said. "I'll look out for you. Heathrow in three minutes. Someone meeting you off the plane?" "My father's business associate," she said in Japanese. The ghost grinned. "Then you'll be in good hands, I'm sure." He winked. "Wouldn't think I'm a linguist to look at me, would you?" Kumiko closed her eyes and the ghost began to whisper to her, something about the archaeology of Heathrow, about the Neolithic and the Iron ages, pottery and tools. . . . ----- http://www.ambiguousmafia.com/xodus/forum/index.php?topic=108.0 "There are ideas that come around once every Milena. Ones that define and create new great things. This my friends is one of the most Greatest and awe inspireing of them to date =/ killing both electricity . fire .... and yes my Friends even waffles. I hear ur cries of Blasphemy and Heretic BUT BEHOLD ! YOUR NEW GOD ! http://web.media.mit.edu/%7Estefanm/phd/cellularsquirrel/ ..... I want one =*(" ----- http://strangequarks.ca/node/555 "Wow Submitted by Darth Wiggly on Fri, 09/16/2005 - 09:48. At first I had to wonder if this is some kinda joke, but quickly realised it isn't. Wow. I mean, it's really hilarious...the idea of your little squirrel or rabbit dancing around on the table in front of you cause you have a phone call. I can't help but wonder if this will expand too. Maybe these little animals will replace PDAs altogether. Maybe instead of pulling out our PalmPilot-type thingy and stylus, we'll just whip out our pet electronic bunny and ask it to remember things for us. The concept is truly intriguing. It's like we'd all be running around with our own little familiars. I'm sure there are some deep underlying sociological and psychological implications here..."