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Baby Wiimote the New Shaken Baby Toy?
It looks like a regular doll, until your kids stick their Wiimote to it and “it’s aliiiiiive.”
Creeped out yet? The geek blogs are convinced the new Baby and Me is some anti-feminist plot designed to turn on the primordial urge to procreate in kids.
Yawn. But this one caught my eye: a comment over at Gizmodo’s rant about the disgustingness of this particular toy:
“Does it make motion sensors? Because I would totally buy it if it came with a baby shake game. (if Apple isn’t going to allow a baby shake game, someone will step in to fill the niche).”
Ick. Here I was on the naive line of thought vis a vis – great, they can send these into high schools for the classes that warn kids NOT to make babies (here the folks at Aussie-Nintendo have a point: “Could you just imagine that doll crying through the tinny, distorted Wii Remote speaker? Absolutely terrifying.”). Granted, I wouldn’t necessarily get this one for my kid, but it could have its uses. And knowing little kids (boys included), they’re going to do this sort of thing with a plain old every day doll anyway. They don’t need the Wii to bring out these instincts.
Would you buy this one?
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Jellybean Jen commented on Nov 03 09 at 12:34 pmYes, it’s a horrible plot to get kids to model loving and caring for babies. Children have never really enjoyed doing that. Heaven forbid that children believe creating other children is a nice idea.
As far as the toy goes, I don’t like dolls or stuffed animals that do things, need batteries or have online components. I’m crazy analog that way.
jenny tries too hard commented on Nov 03 09 at 3:41 pmI’m not big on dolls that “do” stuff, myself. What I find hilarious though is that the folks on geek blogs squawking that a doll will cause girls to want to start makin teh babies probably have little or no problem with first-person shooter games.
TimDavis commented on Nov 04 09 at 1:12 amWonderful discreption
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