Newton by SynPet, VHS Promo [original release post] 1989

This is the original release post (at ablestmage.com) for the 1989 VHS Promo reel regarding the Newton personal household robot. My uncle was owner/CEO/etc of SynPet at the time (also inventer/creator of the Bottomline technology, the fisherman’s depth detector. I’ve got a VHS Promo reel of that also, but it seems to be [...]

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SynPet Newton on KFDX Broadcast News clip ~1980s

My uncle, Steve Hodges, is a very successful electrical engineer and inventor who’s made a fair number of useful devices such as the fisherman’s Depth Finder and now builds cellular-based utility status-monitoring devices (M2MCommM). A while back he owned and headed a company called SynPet, that manufactured household robots by the name of Newton. [...]

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