PSP can control dogs too!!

[mckmas8808]

By Gail Nakada, 12 April 2005
Sony's portable PSP game machine is going mano-a-mano with Nintendo's cool dual-screen DS for top handheld game gadget on both sides of the Pacific. Nintendo's two 3-inch screens, touch-sensitive interaction, "Pictochat" instant messaging and WiFi connectivity to other DS machines have made a hit with players. In Japan, Nintendo just released the machine in four additional colors, packaging them with new virtual pet game, Nintendogs. Now WWJ has found out that Sony's PSP goes one better with a trick that will make technogeeks sit up and beg -- the Japanese version of the PSP apparently (and unintentionally) works electronic wizardry on Aibo the wonder 'bot as well! Japanese entertainment weekly Famitsu put the PSP through its paces in their 15 April issue and sure enough: pressing combinations of buttons on the PSP will make Aibo do different tricks -??? no hacking necessary! Sign in for the full skinny on yet another great "Hey, did you know the PSP could..." story.

http://www.wirelesswatch.jp/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1276

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[Teasy]

Isn't voice recognition the point of those robotic dogs? Can't see anyone, even tech geeks, being too interested in rudimentary control of their robot dog through the PSP. Now if the PSP could fully control the dogs movement and if the dog had a camera that could beam what is see's back to the PSP screen that would be very nice

 

[mech]

When I started reading this thread, I was personally hoping someone had been sneaky and figured out how to interact with Nintendo games through wi-fi, so you could control Nintendogs through the PSP or something similar

 

[Clashman]

Apparently this rumour was a prank started up by the fellas at Famitsu.

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/psp/control-aibo-by-psp-was-a-hoax-039924.php

 

[Evil_Cloud]

GBA can effectively control a Mecha.