Knock knock – you have an IM
August 12, 2008 on 10:34 am | In Fun Stuff | 17 Comments
Cruising around Gizmodo the other day, I came across a unique device called the i-Knock. It’s a personal instant messaging notifier that provides audible and visual alerts when a new IM message arrives on your computer.
A creature, reminiscent of a teletubby, is attached to your computer via USB. When you receive a new IM message, the figure whacks itself on the head with a hammer to make a knocking noise. It also plays a MP3 sound which you can customize per contact if you want.
The i-Knock also has special alerts for a number of emoticons. So when someone sends you a laughing emoticon
, your i-Knock buddy will laugh along with you.
Here’s a short video I found showing how it works:
The product page doesn’t have any details about how to purchase the i-Knock, but judging by the videos on YouTube, it’s been available overseas for at least a year. So perhaps you’ll see it soon at a gadget store near you.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
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Pingback by i-Knock | Zambesc — August 12, 2008 #
The idea sounds great, but after seeing the video and how stupid the toy actually, I’m not interested. Anyway, nice work.
Comment by Lucky — August 12, 2008 #
I was excited about this until I arrived at the youtube video. The voice is annoying and although the idea itself sounds interesting, it’s cheesy at best.
Comment by BlessedIntercessor — August 12, 2008 #
i seen something simillar to this a coulpe of years ago it was a peice of hardware for email though. & everybody should remember the bonzai buddy & excite’s assistant app. before the widget craze started
Comment by 8675309 — August 12, 2008 #
its cute the little i knock thing its cute!
Comment by kmj — August 13, 2008 #
I am still tryin to figure this out……
Comment by goofygirl_us — August 13, 2008 #
This would be highly annoying. Unless you could get a different sound clip for the lil bugger. It’s just as annoying as the “Buzz!!” in Yahoo! Messenger. From the doorbell.wav – the buzz.wav Interesting though maybe Yahoo! could add some new wav’s in a future build of Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 (Beta). For example “You’ve Got Mail!” or something. :-bd
Comment by SGFC — August 13, 2008 #
Hi SFGC,
Yes, according to their product page, you can replace the sounds with your own MP3 files.
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — August 14, 2008 #
I see no reason for anyone to buy that. Its rather useless and well stupid if you ask me. Id see my 18 month old son bite that up and throw it in the trash lol
Comment by Daniel — August 17, 2008 #
I rather have a clock by my bed that has XM, internet radio, mp3 player so I set a alarm the mp3 or XM will go off, wi-fi so it can alert me like “Good Morning, Today is August 17th, you have no mail. you have myspace comments. you have no IM messages”,
Bring out the classic bedroom clock to the new modern technology.
Comment by yolarrydabomb — August 17, 2008 #
yolarrydabomb –
Sounds like you might be into owning a chumby device:
http://www.chumby.com/
Sarah Bacon
Comment by Administrator — August 18, 2008 #
i would like to have this feature
Comment by Dianne — August 19, 2008 #
i want this feature its hysterical
Comment by jody beals — August 27, 2008 #
That’s the most idiotic thing i have ever seen…
Comment by Ady — August 28, 2008 #
IM doesn’t work properly. Why would I want to add more things to it?
Comment by Tom — August 31, 2008 #
Great! Just what I need. A sadistic looking teletubbie sitting on my desk that alerts me every time I receive SPIM/SPAM! BRAVO!!!!!
Comment by Annoyed — September 10, 2008 #
stavo cercando per informazione stato necessario per cose molto tempo. Grazie!!))
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