Creepy robotic crack babies
By Barb Dybwad 
posted March 16th 2005 9:02AM
posted March 16th 2005 9:02AM
No, no, no. Do we need to start a whole category devoted to kids' toys
gone horribly wrong? Teens in the UK are being subjected
to these robot babies that behave like infants born to an alcohol and/or drug-addicted mothers. The robots are
underweight and, well — look at the thing, for cryin' out loud — pretty downright sickly and scary. These things are
supposed to teach kids the dangers of drugs and alcohol but man, after an evening with one of these dolls we'd have to
be rollin' up a spliff behind the work shed afterwards just to calm our nerves. Especially since the dolls can't be
turned off. Real life, stranger than fiction.
[Via Mike's List]
At my school, the psych class has a project with the non-crack version of this. This year, they got a round of 'new and improved' babies that will cry to even more stimuli, like loud noises. Best part is, they usuually have the project in the weeks leading up to exams. Oh, the joy of 'life lessons'
That picture looks like Verne Troyer on the Atkins diet.
I call B.S. There is NO electronic device that can't be turned off. Give me a hammer and a screwdriver (or a nice-sized chisel for that matter) and I'll make sure this thing NEVER cries again.
Same goes for your real children.
Yeah, i agree, I could turn it off :)
" I could turn it off "
I think the whole idea is that if you are a promiscuous, drunken, crack smoker (and in the end...aren't we all ?) a week with this thing turns YOU off...
I kinda doubt it will work though. Yet again, just as with Napsters DRM, there is a simple low tech solution that people have been employing in the real world (ie with real kids/crack babies) for years that will work for this thing to.
Just throw it in the trash...