WIRED.COM and BIOBugs

Dave Hrynkiw
November 2, 2001

Wired.com recently posted a very interesting comparison between the Wowwee/Hasbro BIO-Bugs, and the Sony Aibo. Interesting comparison!

For those wanting more information, there's the BIO-Bug vivisection page at Solarbotics.net.

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