Gizmodo: sanrio

Get Your Floors Clean and Cute With Hello Kitty Roomba

Elaine Chow — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:00:00 EDT

For homemakers who always wanted a Roomba but thought it too uncute, iRobot and Sanrio have partnered up to create a Hello Kitty-branded version of their robotic vacuum cleaner. So now not only does everybody's favorite expressionless cat protect your computer, play your music and blast away your enemies, she'll also clean your floor. Who's a good kitty? Only 500 units are made, and each will cost roughly $810. Figures—it's only available in Japan. [iRobot Japan via Dvice]

Hello Kitty Gallery and CES 2008 Booth Tour

Noah Robischon — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:51:40 EST

We [heart] Sanrio's Hello Kitty lineup. They didn't have anything as innovative as last year's lady shaver on display. Instead, the Kitty seems to be going emo, with a line of sweet matte black music devices. A full gallery of the booth and all its wacky goodness is after the jump...

Photos by Gizmodo's intrepid Las Vegas cameraman Curtis Joe Walker

NEC Goes Hello Kitty on us with LaVie G Laptop

Addy Dugdale — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:09:25 EDT

I have encircled my right wrist with thumb and forefinger of my left hand and am chanting, "Calm. Calm. Calm." However, it is not working. I am not calm. I am SHINING with angry pink Swarovski fury. Oh, yes. Someone needs to put a fatwah on Sanrio Corp. Please. I will pay them. Here. I've got a couple of shirt buttons, some pocket fluff, a card with the hotline number for my local nuthouse's Rapid Response team and a piece of Orbit gum. Anyone?

You probably can't hear anything save the sweet sound of hyperventilation (that's me in the corner, backed up as far away as I can from the charms of Biff and Petey, said Rapid Responders) but as they try and pin me down with a butterfly net and a trank dart, I'll give you a closer shot at it and the price...

$1640. Thump. – Ad Dugdale

PC which treats Hello the Kitty of NEC and the Crystal Glass [PC Watch through Google Translate]

Hello Kitty Keyboard

Addy Dugdale — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:36:40 EDT

I think this one is aimed at only the most hardcore geeks around. In a beautiful shade that can only be described as Pepto Bismol Puke, the Hello Kitty keyboard will bring hours of happiness to your working day. It's got quick-start buttons for email, Internet and multimedia access, a sleep and wake-up button and color-coded keys to help you learn to type. All this, plus a wrist rest, will set you back $35. Oh, and you can roll it up —after you've taken a hammer to it, that is. – Ad Dugdale

Product Page [eBay via Shiny Shiny]

Rent a Snario Fembot: $3,500 For Five Days

Jason Chen — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:10:27 EDT

This Sanrio Actroid DER2 has more facial expressions tha previous Actroid DER, plus it's thinner and smarter (which is what really matters). She can coordinate her motions with her voice using pneumatic pressure actuators, and is generally a pretty good substitute for flesh-based Wal-Mart greeters.

She's not for sale, but you can rent her for five days if you've got $3,500. I suspect the first thing you'd do is to get her out of that Hello Kitty shirt. Imply what you want to that last sentence. For some reason we expected a deeper voice than the one currently programmed in. Not a Kathleen Turner, but not an 8-year-old child either. – Jason Chen

Bonus video after the jump.

Actroid DER2 fembot [New Launches]

Apple Develops Hello Kitty Television

Travis Hudson — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:17:38 EDT

Oho, I got you good! Apple has nothing to do with this disgusting television. It just looks like an actual apple and comes plastered with cutesy Hello Kitty images. This TV is manufactured by Sanrio and obviously isn't pink enough to be a real Hello Kitty product. – Travis Hudson

Hello Kitty, the apple TV. [Akihabara]