Their tagline "Mother knows everything" is terrifying.
Like the computer named "Mother" in Alien.
Mother
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#22The sync module reminds me of the Nabaztag ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabaztag ) and I wondered whether Mother was going to have signals and indicators so that you didn't have to use a mobile device for insight.
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#23Will it send me a notification that says "don't disappoint mother" if I forget to do something?
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#24First I've heard of it, but I had the same reaction as Cringley. Maybe it's an age thing. "Imagine v1 of Big Brother's -- or NSA director Keith Alexander's -- most inflamed fever dream: a sensorbot shaped like a Russian nesting doll wearing a Hindi-cow smile. Then terrifyingly name it "Mother" and build it specifically to monitor as many facets of your personal life as it can. Are you schvitzing yet?" http://www.info…
I can't dispute the age thing, given that I'm in the oldest 5 or 10% of the community according to the various age polls we've had over the years, but my reaction (not having read Cringley's review) was, "Can this thing get any creepier? Oh, look; it can."
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#25God, the future is so fucking weird.
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#26That was a really poor choice of a name. It took me less than 10 seconds to start hearing Pink Floyd's "Mother" [1] in my head. Once that started happening, I just couldn't stay objective while looking at the pitch. [1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0HrrR9QDQU
Better Pink Floyd's "Mother" than Danzig's, which is where my poor brain went.
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#27If you scroll down far enough, you get to the 'technical details', where the device is described as 'a white mother'. I just found that funny, haha.
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#28I played with this at CES. The "mother" bot is basically just a router. The little things only sense motion, and when I asked the lady said they had no plans to add any other types of sensitivity - temperature, moisture, light, current, etc. Compared with the other 'internet of things' kits out there battling for visibility, this one doesn't seem original or more useful, only visually striking. The tags are also pretty big for what they do. A useful thing for $50 maybe to buy once, but really doesn't seem like a worthwhile 'ecosystem' to buy into in any big way.
Also, I was unhappy to learn upon close inspection that the face is a sticker.
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#29That was a really poor choice of a name. It took me less than 10 seconds to start hearing Pink Floyd's "Mother" [1] in my head. Once that started happening, I just couldn't stay objective while looking at the pitch. [1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0HrrR9QDQU
I went right to Pink Floyd playing over my imagined scenes of Huxley's Brave New World... the face itself is terrifying. https://twitter.com/jitl/status/423241986267557888/photo/1/l...
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#30Wait, is this real? It seems like commentary on the current zeitgeist, not a real product.
> Mother. Mother knows everything.
> She's like a mom, only better.
> Sense: the meaning of life®
edit: I see they are based in France, so perhaps the branding didn't translate well.