Announcement: Your Nabaztag, Karotz, and then…
Hi,
No doubt, you’ve already heard that ALDEBARAN Robotics is the new owner of Karotz and that we have created its very own subsidiary called Violet, which will continue the development of communicating objects for the general public.
We are delighted to be carrying on the tradition of this wonderful project initiated by Rafi Haladjian with Nabaztag. ALDEBARAN Robotics develops and sells robots designed to improve the human condition.
Nabaztag, and its cousin Karotz, the new generation of Internet-connected Rabbits, are very much part of this family.
We will be focusing most of our efforts on enriching the Karotz personality and functions and you will receive preview information about all the new features.
In particular, we will be working on its voice. I trust that you will adopt this new companion very quickly with as much enthusiasm as you reserved for its cousin.
Therefore, we have decided to extend the purchase offer of $79/£69/€79 for all Nabaztag owners. The conditions of the offer are provided below.
However, this does not mean that we are giving up on the Nabaztag and Nabaztag:tag users’ community.
I am pleased to announce that we have met the main coordinators and that we are doing our outmost to provide them with the resources needed to bring these rabbits back to life. In concrete terms, we will be contributing to open source development, hosting the community’s servers and providing voice recognition and synthesis services. We are working to make these new servers available before the end of the year.
The process should be very simple. You will receive a message from us informing you that you can switch on your rabbits and, without having to change anything, they will be operational again subject to the services available on the open source servers.
The Violet team is at your service to ensure that the time you spend with your rabbits is an unforgettable experience.
Fabien Bardinet
about 1 year ago
Hi!! The old nabaztag/tag was supporting italian language. What about karotz??
about 1 year ago
Hello Diego,
We are working on the personalization of Karotz, such as its voice. We hope to be able then to add new languages, such as Italian.
about 1 year ago
Thank you for trying to return Nabaztag’s to life. Hope mine will speak again soon!
about 1 year ago
Back when the Nabaztag was put to his orange blinking sleep, I was really pissed and I said to myself: Why should I buy a Karotz now? It could very well suffer the same fate as my dear Nabaztag/tag did. So, hearing that the new owners want to revive the services for Nabaztag/tag made me rejoice. I really really hope this is not just an empty promise but a nice christmas present.
Depending on what happens, I will reconsider the Karotz, after all, the rabbit is both kind of sweet and technically interesting at the same. Don’t we all love these gadgets? =:o)
about 1 year ago
Finally!
about 1 year ago
Good news at last for the lost and forgotten Nabaztag community.
about 1 year ago
Awesome news, so I’m fine to order 4 at reduced rate in December?
about 1 year ago
Also will Karotz being adopting Nao’s voice?
about 1 year ago
Hello BadBoyBunny, you are truly a rabbit fan
Not sure that Karotz can adopt Nao’s voice, it will be a surprise
about 1 year ago
It will be a great day if RabbitBurns can live again – will this rebirth also extend to the mirror?
Will there be communication between Karotz and nabaztag:tag, i.e. will the karotz phone app talk to nabaz’es or can karotz and nabaz be ear partners?
Like BadBoyBunny, I’m interested to know if we can buy more than one Karotz at the reduced rate?
about 1 year ago
Hi Paul,
There is no project yet with the mir:ror, and it is too early to say if Nabaztag:tag and Karotz will be able to communicate. More info to come if anything is possible.
For Badboy Bunny and you : you can of course buy more than one Karotz at the reduced rate if you have more than one Nabaztag. A Nabaztag MAC adress and email adress can be used only one time to get a discount price for one Karotz. If you encounter a problem during your order, please contact our sales service at sales@karotz.com.
about 1 year ago
hi folks,
after the Nabaztags died I bought two Karotz hoping that they can communicate together like the Nabaztags could. Now there is nearly one year over and there is still nothing to see on the horizon.
Mindscape made promises they never kept!
I spent almost 400€ for two plastic rabbits that blink and talk (a little bit) … and that’s it
Can you please tell me something about the future?
When will it be possible that Karotz2Karotz works?
Will there be an Ear Language again?
Will there be a Mail-address again for the rabbits again?
Hoping for positive answer
Gerry
about 1 year ago
Hi Gerry,
We are working on improving Karotz: its voice, its personnality, applications using all its features, such as the webcam. We want also to develop applications – us or the community – that respond to what Karotz owners want. Please, let us know what you would expect with applications like “Karotz2Karotz”, the “Mail-adress”…
Many thanks.
about 1 year ago
Hello
I would like to buy a karotz but i cannot activate the discount price. It worked but my browser was frozen and now i cannot use my nabaztag:tag macaddress and my registered email to activate the discount price. Can somebody help me?
about 1 year ago
Hello Steve. Do not worry, you can send an email to our sales service at sales@karotz.com : please describe your problem and your Nabaztag information (mac address, email), we will help you to activate the discount price.
about 1 year ago
It’s great news that work is going ahead on reactivating the Nataztags. I have one and a Karotz and it’s going to be good getting them both working in different parts of the house. There are quite a few possibilities…
about 1 year ago
Hi Yvan,
in respond to your question in post #13:
I am a little bit confused because MINDSCAPE promises this feature already for mid 2011 and therefore THEY had to have an idea what this App can/should do …
But now as I have to chance to state my user-wishes I gladly will answer your question …
In times of the old Nabaztags there was an option that two bunnys could “marry” each other. So when you clicked a specific pattern on the belly button you could send a voice message to the beloved married rabbit.
There was also a feature called EAR LANGUAGE … the ears of both rabbits always were synchrony. This was great for sending “silent-messages”
The Nabaztags also had an email-address like “rabbitname@things.violet.net”. You could send an email to this address and the subject was read by the rabbit …
well, I hoped that the successor of Nabaztag was at least able to do the same things like the old Nabaztag could …
I am really looking forward to see a feature to EASY and FAST send Voicemails to another (married) rabbit … or even more other rabbitS) e.g. by saying “send message to name’s rabbit” …
thanks for giving me the chance to state a wish
Gerry
about 1 year ago
This is really great news about bringing our Nazbatags back to life. It will be great if Karotz and Nazbatags can talk to each other. I bought a bunny for a friend and I hope that this is the begining of a population explosion of friends with bunnies.
about 1 year ago
Hi Yvan,
one more thing: I receive your mail-newsletter in FRENCH language! … I don’t understand one word French
is it possible in the future to send this newsletter either in the personal preferred language or send it in DIFFERENT languages sections in ONE mail (French, English, German)?
thanks for answer
Gerry
about 1 year ago
Hi Gerry, sorry about this French mail-newsletter. For the moment I’ll ask our team to move your mail adress from French to English Newsletter database, and we will try to improve our system according to your advices. Thanks for your patience.
about 1 year ago
So how do I set up my Nabaztag:Tag? I decided to start using it again so how do I get it configured as I can’t get to the violet.net site any more?
about 1 year ago
Hello,
Nabaztag servers have been stopped last July by the company Mindscape. Last October, the company Aldebaran / Violet has acquired the activity Karotz after Mindscape was in liquidation. We have then decided to stop the technical support for Nabaztag.
If you want to set up your rabbit, we recommend you to check the following link to find information from the Nabaztag’s community:
http://nabaztag.forumactif.fr/f95-save-nabztag-altenative-solutions
As you have a Nabaztag:tag, you can connect it to one of the alternative servers by following the instructions. Violet.net site is down but you won’t need it.
Aldebaran / Violet will also be contributing to open source development, hosting the community’s servers and providing voice recognition and synthesis services for the Nabaztag:tag. We are working to make these new servers available before the end of the year and we will give information about that in the near future.
about 1 year ago
@Yvan,
thanks for your offer in thread #20
But it still get newsletters in FRENCH language
about 1 year ago
Hello Gerry,
Sorry again for the inconvenience, our team have to check the database to see what happened.
For the moment, you can unsubscribe from French newsletter by clicking the “rendez-vous sur cette page.” link at the top of the newletter.
about 1 year ago
So far when I connect my Nabaztag:tag, some strange french voice tells me to go to some website, but as that voice is so twisted I can not understand the URL. I also do not find any way to subscribe my Nabaztag to the new service on http://www.karotz.com/my/
How do I connect my Nabaztag to the new service then?
about 1 year ago
Hello Vinzenz, if you want to have a taste of the new service with your Nabaztag:tag, you can register and log in at http://www.nabalive.com, but please be indulgent, this is a beta test site, information is still in French only, and accounts will be reset before the official launch. More news about the Nabaztag:tag revival soon !
about 1 year ago
Hello,
So if i buy i karotz, and my friend buys a Karotz, are we able to marry, and then have the ear language as before with the nabaztag:tag? That was a really good feature, and having read post #13, was wondering if its going to be implemented or not?
Thank you.