While the Playstation Eye has always been a strange sort of beast, this has to be the weirdest application yet. The EyePet, species unknown to me, prances around on whatever surface you put in front of him, although, as the narrator of this hands-on video notes, this creature does not exist in real life.

The pet can interact with a few things, like a plane you can draw and fly around or a card that lets you check for… foriegn objects, perhaps. Now there’s no doubt this looks fun and weird, but when these developers saw Project Natal they probably all started crying like babies.

EyePet should be coming out for the holidays. Get it for your kid, it’s cleaner than a real monkey-dog.

Now, the smart thing to do when faced with the prospect of a long aeroplane flight is to load up on Benadryl (or Ambien, if you have money and a cooperative doctor) right before boarding. That way you sleep for the duration of the flight—no having to worry about crying babies for you! But, for the sake of this here post, let’s say you want to, or have to, stay awake for a certain amount of time. You know who’s got your back in this instance? Panasonic, of all people, what with its “iPod merge” in-flight thingamabob.

Keep in mind this isn’t for the average United Airlines flight. No, it’s for Boeing Business Jets—rich people, in other words. See, all they (read: their assistants) will have to do is plug in the Company iPod and then the whole cabin can enjoy the latest funny Will Ferrel movie while knocking back a few brews. Hey, you’ve earned it!

Planes should be outfitted with iPod merge by September of this year.

And while it’s great that companies like Panasonic are working toward making long flights more bearable—can you even imagine being on an old Spanish galleon, going from Sevilla to, I don’t know, Cartagena! That must have taken forever, lol!—I think I speak for most of you when I say, Hey, how about a little more legroom in coach? Is that so hard?

via Giz