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comment by Kafke
Kafke  ·  3575 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Creepy Meets Cutsie: Surveillance Barbie and Other New Toys

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.