“PINOKY: A Ring That Animates Your Plush Toys”
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- PINOKY: A Ring That Animates Your Plush Toys
Description:
PINOKY is a wireless ring-like device that can be externally attached to any plush toy as an accessory that animates the toy, such as by moving its limbs. A user is thus able to instantly convert any plush toy into a soft robot. The user can control the toy remotely or input the movement desired by moving the plush toy and having the data recorded and played back. Unlike other methods for animating plush toys, PINOKY is non-intrusive, so alterations to the toy are not required.
References:
[1]
Raffle, H., Parkes, A. and Ishii, H. 2004. Topobo: A Constructive Assembly System with Kinetic Memory. In Proc. CHI ’04, ACM (2004), pp. 869–877.
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