{"id":8250,"date":"2004-03-11T10:10:52","date_gmt":"2004-03-11T10:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8250"},"modified":"2004-03-11T10:10:52","modified_gmt":"2004-03-11T10:10:52","slug":"little-bot-guards-your-house-reads-to-your-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8250","title":{"rendered":"Little &#8216;Bot Guards Your House, Reads To Your Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/Securitybot.jpg\" align=\"right\">SK Telecom, Korea&#8217;s largest telecom company, and Mostitech have developed a <a href=\"http:\/\/times.hankooki.com\/lpage\/tech\/200403\/kt2004030818170011790.htm\">small, wheeled &#8220;security pet&#8221;<\/a> that is designed to guard your house with on-board digital cameras and wireless connection to your PC, and through it to your mobile phone. On-board sensors can detect fires and poinsonous gas (handy if you&#8217;re living in New Jersey) and upcoming software will allow face recognition. When the &#8216;bot doesn&#8217;t recognize a face, it can snap a pic and sound an alarm.<\/p>\n<p> In addition to the security functions, the company is apparently touting the little &#8216;bot&#8217;s ability to read to your kids and keep an eye on them, which doesn&#8217;t seem like a good idea to me &#8212; at least until the bugger&#8217;s got some arms and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anu.edu.au\/people\/Roger.Clarke\/SOS\/Asimov.html\">three-law chip<\/a>. Price is expected to be around $850.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SK Telecom, Korea&#8217;s largest telecom company, and Mostitech have developed a small, wheeled &#8220;security pet&#8221; that is designed to guard your house with on-board digital cameras and wireless connection to your PC, and through it to your mobile phone. On-board sensors can detect fires and poinsonous gas (handy if you&#8217;re living in New Jersey) and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8250\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Little &#8216;Bot Guards Your House, Reads To Your Kids&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}