{"id":8594,"date":"2005-08-31T13:05:37","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T13:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8594"},"modified":"2005-08-31T13:05:37","modified_gmt":"2005-08-31T13:05:37","slug":"idog-one-annoying-little-robo-turd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8594","title":{"rendered":"iDog, One Annoying Little Robo-Turd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/iDog.jpg\"> Okay, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akihabaranews.com\/en\/revue_43.html\" target=\"new\">this<\/a> is just WRONG. Sega has released the iDog, a &#8220;musicbot&#8221; that allows you to play your iPod (or other digital player) through its speaker. It lights up, it moves its ears, it makes a lot of noise, it plays back your recorded music through a crappy little mono speaker (while its servo motors whir and an internal sound chip adds annoying audio effects to the playback). Make it stop, please make it stop!<\/p>\n<p> Watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akihabaranews.com\/review_pics\/43\/iDOG.wmv\" target=\"new\">video<\/a> to get that sinking feeling of techno-decadence run amuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this is just WRONG. Sega has released the iDog, a &#8220;musicbot&#8221; that allows you to play your iPod (or other digital player) through its speaker. It lights up, it moves its ears, it makes a lot of noise, it plays back your recorded music through a crappy little mono speaker (while its servo motors &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8594\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;iDog, One Annoying Little Robo-Turd&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}