Agreed. There's not a lot of utility in this thing, considering it costs so much. I don't know why you'd get this in addition to a smartphone. For the price, you could buy two Nexus 7 tablets.

And how does the family share the Jibo? That little girl has it in her blanket fort, so now grandma doesn't know that whatshername is picking her up to go grocery shopping. Are we supposed to buy multiple Jibos for the home? There's countless things I'd rather do with a thousand dollars.

BTW, I can't help but imagine a different ending to that video, where the Jibo wishes the girl goodnight, then the heart turns to an angry looking red dot as Jibo plots its revenge on the family that's enslaved it.