- The speaker and microphone are housed in Barbie's necklace. Each of her legs has a rechargeable battery. Barbie will go for an hour between charges.
C'mon. 1) Barbie's origins are borderline pornographic.
If she's now talking to little girls with the help of AI it's a step up. Bonus points: parental control and the ability to log those adorable conversations. "Surveillance" means being watched by someone unseen. Barbie is right f'n there. 2) You gotta be huffin' fumes if Google Cardboard is now "The Matrix Junior." Ever played with one? It's like having a cell phone right in front of your face. There's a reason we've been batshit about VR since Lawnmower Man but adoption remains pathetically low. 3) Adults google the shit out of things all the time. The difference here? You don't need to know how to type. Besides which, it's a Kickstarter. Know what I just did? Googled "Amazon si" and Google came back with "Amazon Siri-like device" and gave me this. I'll take the dinosaur, thanks. What's that, Lassie? LInk to that hilarious Barbie vs. Canon EOS video? Okay, twist my arm...
Do they seriously have a problem with the Oculus Rift? WTF? Are these people luddites? And that last one is literally just any smart phone or amazon's 'alexa' pretty much hooked up to the internet. Again, not really a problem if you aren't a technophobe. The only 'creepy' one is the barbie, which I wouldn't put it past barbie for being creepy. A lot of their other products are awful as well. And really, the only 'creepy' part is that it logs and emails the conversations. Not the "google now' or "siri" style functionality (unless you are honestly scared of smartphones). Perhaps what's the most frightening part is that people are under the assumption they must buy these products. Instead of, you know, buying more educational and more entertaining toys for their children.