June 28, 2008

Blond Ambition

Dolls have always been little girls best friend. But the latest doll innovation is so techie! She may look like a casting reject from the movie “Village of the Damned” or a creepy alien-girl. Well, she is a little creepy. With two 16-bit microprocessors, voice recognition software and a digital camera lodged in her chest, she takes interactive playtime to a new level. The doll can do simple math, recognize basic shapes and colors, respond to 70 preprogrammed questions and read flash cards (as long as they’re within her vocabulary of 650 English words and a smattering of German, Spanish, Italian and French ones). If all this gets to be too much, you can always switch the doll off and braid her white-blond hair.

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