‘RoboHon’ is the tiny robot smartphone you never knew you needed
Watch the teaser video after the break. Skip along then come back to me. Sharp’s RoboHon is so damn adorable, I can’t look away from this kawaii singularity. This robot smartphone is also jammed full of skills and features. A projector, articulated animated arms and legs, talkative but in a cutesy Japanese robot sort of way. You’re old, Pepper the robot. There I said it.
When the rest of a phone is an animated robot that sits down, other specifications sort of fade away, but Sharp’s given us most of the details. It’s not light (390 grams), or small (at 19.5cm tall, almost eight inches), making it the antithesis of how all other smartphones are evolving. There’s WiFi and LTE to make it work like a phone should, and a tiny two-inch 320 x 240 screen on its back — because you should be looking at its cute lil’ face, silly. Inside there, there’s cameras for facial recognition, and voice recognition built-in too. Both are features found in existing smartphones, but they’re not robots. Don’t you get it yet?
Hello, it’s the bizarre Japanese anime future calling. Are you going to pick it up?
Source: RoboHon
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