Just this summer, I demonstrated what was then a new product on the US market on HGTV’s “I Want That! Tech Toys” show. It was called the Nabaztag smart bunny, and it was an interactive, programmable little toy that looked like a white bunny and connected to the Internet through WiFi. I also wrote a pretty detailed review about its capabilities.

Well, the folks at Violet, the makers of the Nabaztag, have just launched a new version, which does a whole lot more. You can communicate with it by voice, and you can program it to read books back to you, using RFID tags. Watch the video below, taped on a French TV show, it’s pretty cool stuff. Little kids would probably go bananas for the chance to have their books read back to them by a little toy bunny.