Cute Plant Craves Your Attention

Plants would make great pets if they just did more stuff. Hey, they can grow, they can make oxygen, they can die... but that's pretty much it. Nobody names a plant. You can't really hug a plant. However, luckily for you Sega of Japan has re-envisioned the lowly plant as a cute robotic companion. Using futuristic muscle wires for movement, the Sega Pekoppa Robot Plant looks surprisingly lifelike but never needs watering or sunlight... what it craves is your attention. Talk to your Pekoppa plant and it responds to your voice by bending and moving in a very lifelike manner (if real plants could move, which they mostly don't). Ignore it and it gets pretty sad. The more you talk, the happier it is... making it the ideal companion for your wife or girlfriend.

Based on the research by Dr. Tomio Watanabe the Pekoppa incorporates "Unazuki riron" (nodding theory.) According to Dr Watanabe, nonverbal communication including nodding and face expression is crucial to human communication. Because of this, the Pekoppa has several ways of nodding and changes the ways it responds depending on your voice tone. The more you talk to Pekoppa the more it seems to understand what you say. It's a very good listener.

Important Note:
The Pekoppa is imported from Japan. Because of this, the directions are all in Japanese... but you should have no problem inserting the batteries and getting the Pekoppa up and running.