Tech-savvy iTeddy puts other bears to shame
By Darren Murph 
posted Jul 27th 2007 8:36PM
posted Jul 27th 2007 8:36PM
posted Jul 27th 2007 8:36PM
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Hah! this was originally from 'The Dragons Den' (the original British version of American Inventor)
glad to see he made it.
Hmm. I thought it was a terrible idea then, and it's still a terrible idea. If I remember, it was pitched as being able to read bedtime stories to your kids to save you the time.
Not only is that a terrible reflection on you as a parent, it also costs you money and time to buy the stuff from their website.
Anyway, a word to the wise: your kid wants a damn iPod, not an "iTeddy". Turning up with this instead will not win you Father Of The Year.
The fact you have to buy the stories from a website make it a great business idea.. Any product that people will buy and then pay to keep up to date, is a great idea.
Whether it makes you a bad parent is for god to decide, and seeing the way he treated his kid, i dont think anyone using this will have to worry.
How long till we start getting bears like "Teddy" from the movie A.I.
wow I forgot all about him. he was the cutest robot I had ever seen, forget this crappy ibear, give us Teddy from A.I.!
I hope my im not given one of them
As an individual that is no way affiliated with the Toy Mafia, this toy is definitely not a toy from the Toy Mafia.
-Someone not in the Toy Mafia
Uh, it's an inanimate stuffed animal with an mp3 player shoved into it and somehow engadget equates that with a mouth-moving, eye blinking, Grubby connecting story-telling bear, Teddy Ruxpin, and with an interactive, touch responsive Tickle Me Elmo. Apparently all engadget staff have no children and have no memory of being a child.
What does "i" stand for in all this "i"-crap?
interactive?
I think it was supposed to be "internet", but who the hell knows anymore. Everyone abuses it.
i as in 'i full of crap'
I've still got my Teddy Ruxpin. It still works, that shows you how sturdy they were constructed (18+ years ago)
Same here. I always wanted to know if the mouth still moved with any tapes other than the special story tapes but by the time the batteries ran out for the fifth time I'd moved on.
OK, let's play a game: what's the most hilarious song you could have one of these things play? I'm going to say some kind of hardcore gangsta rap. Extra points if you make a video and throw it on YouTube.
I don't even want to know where you plug in the charging cable.
it comes with its own dock and a universal dock connector.
universal being the key word.
The media player is detachable. What's the first thing any three year old is going to do? Pull the player out of the teddy. I'd give it a couple of weeks before the media player is left behind somewhere leaving a teddy with a big plastic hole. Once the battery has run out afew times mid way through stories kids will stop liking this teddy in the same way we stop liking cell phones when they die on us. No way to record which is what kids that age love. No earphones. Is there a volume switch? Remote control to turn it off when kids have fallen to sleep with swtiched on is another missing essential. And I haven't even got to it being made in China.
I like Teddy Ruxpin. I got the new Teddy Ruxpin made by Back Pack Toys Inc. www.teddyruxpin.com
i teDDy has cost me over forty quid in downloads so far, only the site doesn't work so that's £40 worse off and no stuff! It's been a bag of trouble since day one - and my grandson, to whom I TeddY belongs, thinks the box is more interesting than the damn bear.
i-teDdY = 'I - want to rip your head off and shove it up your fluffy backside because you are the world's most pointless and aggravatingly gormless tEdDy.'