IDog

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The correct title of this article is iDog. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.

The iDog.

iDog wearing clothing.

The iDog is a robot dog designed and manufactured by Sega Toys. It is also manufactured by Hasbro which provides the iDog to North American audiences. It is also marketed as the eDog in Germany and the Netherlands.

The iDog reacts to music from an external source, such as an MP3 player. It features seven flashing LED lights on its face and has the ability to 'dance' to the beat of the music. It also has a number of switches on its nose, head and tail which allow it to react to user input. It has various emotions (which change based on user interaction) that provide different colour patterns on its LED lights. The iDog was probably designed to interact with the iPod (hence the name), though it will work with any 3.5mm audio jack input, and has an integrated speaker. It also reacts if placed near an audio source (such as speakers), and has 70 built-in melodies.

The iDog went on sale worldwide between March and April of 2005. On January 1, 2006, a black iDog was released, possibly to match the black iPod.