Twoddler lets your toddler twitter and summon the Fail Whale #cute

So you think your baby's all Twitter-ready with that Kickbee while chilling in the womb? Nah, only practice makes perfect, so the folks at Belgium's Hasselt University came up with the Twoddler: a hacked Fisher-Price activity board with buttons linked to predefined Twitter messages. Obsessive parents can put photos of themselves on the buttons, so that whenever those buttons are hit the Twoddler tweets something like "@mommy I miss you." We like this idea, but then again you'll never know if it's just someone else's kids bashing the buttons -- you'll still feel good anyway. Watch some Twoddler action after the break.

[SamUK Posted Dec 5th 2009 2:31PM]

What is the sodding point?

[Ryan Trevisol Posted Dec 5th 2009 8:46PM]

@SamUK Well at first I thought, tweets could a toddler's toy would create would be inane (horsie! WHEEE!), then I realized they wouldn't be much more inane than normal tweets.

[Wwhat Posted Dec 6th 2009 7:47AM]

@SamUK Teaches toddlers to use a rotary phone dial so they are prepared when they are teens.

[dwboston1 Posted Dec 5th 2009 2:35PM]

Fisher-Price sucks. Should be running Android.

[LAY Posted Dec 5th 2009 2:38PM]

Sign into twitter...

"You have 3,323 new tweets"

All from a hyper 2 year old.

No thanks.

[SaintAndrew Posted Dec 5th 2009 2:41PM]

@LAY

lol, can you imagine if you subscribed through sms? your phone would be an absolute wreck.

[tiger578 Posted Dec 5th 2009 5:39PM]

@SaintAndrew Worse wreck without free text messaging.
Oh god, think of the horror on the parent's face when they see the phone bill.

[eugeneaction Posted Dec 5th 2009 2:47PM]

think of the ..."other" application-able "toys"...

[p0p0 Posted Dec 5th 2009 4:45PM]

@(Unverified)
"Vibrator dead. Get home NOW"

[Martin C Posted Dec 5th 2009 2:51PM]

It's shit like this, PS3 integration, etc. that overload Twitter with truly useless information. Now I have something clearly in my mind when Twitter tells me the server is overloaded.

[Steve2000 Posted Dec 5th 2009 6:13PM]

@Martin C

I wouldn't mind seeing some of your tweets for comparison.

[conscious Posted Dec 5th 2009 2:53PM]

'Developing basic motor skills' 5 minutes ago from Twoddler
'Pooped myself' 2 minutes ago from Twoddler
'Crying about anything and everything' less than a minute ago from Twoddler

[conscious Posted Dec 5th 2009 3:34PM]

@conscious sorry that was from ashton kutcher's twitter.

[New Reformation Posted Dec 5th 2009 3:44PM]

@conscious
"Crying about anything and everything' less than a minute ago"

From Glenn Becks twitter. (Sorry, it was just too easy...)

[yulebellow Posted Dec 5th 2009 2:55PM]

the horror

[Spensar Posted Dec 5th 2009 3:01PM]

This is hilarious. I WANT!

[fladele Posted Dec 5th 2009 3:02PM]

not cool.

[sudog33k Posted Dec 5th 2009 3:06PM]

sounds quasi dirty at first glance....100% marketable to idiots...

[PATRICKmcnicholl Posted Dec 5th 2009 3:08PM]

It's not like the toddlers' tweets are going to be any different. It's all mindless babble

[HarZens Posted Dec 5th 2009 3:18PM]

@PATRICKmcnicholl

But now it's predefined mindless babble

I would say that's a huge improvement.

[Steve2000 Posted Dec 5th 2009 6:16PM]

@PATRICKmcnicholl

"It's all mindless babble"

Have you used Twitter?

[Craig Posted Dec 5th 2009 11:46PM]

@(Unverified)

It certainly sounds like he has.

[writeinC Posted Dec 5th 2009 3:14PM]

They ruined that awesome toy with twitter?
I loved that toy, although I never understood why the ball (I think the other side of it was yellow) and the green and white cylinder didn't rotate on the same axis.
They don't make toys like they used to.

[Tommo Posted Dec 5th 2009 3:33PM]

@writeinC They did it so you couldnt lean/step on it and fall forward, like a rolling belt kinda (if you are babby this is easy to happen)

[keithwwalker Posted Dec 5th 2009 3:42PM]

That toy is the perfect size!
Perfect to smash over head of the greasy exec who thought this up...

[Dries Posted Dec 5th 2009 3:48PM]

I live in Belgium. Should I be ashamed about this now? :P

[Ioncloud9 Posted Dec 5th 2009 3:50PM]

Twitter is everything thats wrong with our instant-gratification, narcissistic, celebutard society.

[mynameisjay Posted Dec 5th 2009 3:55PM]

I made a poop
7:35 AM Dec 5th from Twoddler

[Zafiel Posted Dec 5th 2009 4:01PM]

Just when I thought the idea of Twitter couldn't get any stupider.

[Willow Posted Dec 5th 2009 4:09PM]

I think I remember having something similar in the late 70's.....

[Werkbot Posted Dec 5th 2009 4:36PM]

They are laughing at the comments, on this post, all the way to the bank. I suppose they don't waste their free time in comments sections?

[Antiapplekid Posted Dec 5th 2009 8:16PM]

This is totally wrong why would you want this

[KeegdnaB Posted Dec 5th 2009 8:44PM]

When I have children, they WILL have one of these. /twitterwhore

[Rossgadget Posted Dec 5th 2009 10:28PM]

this is stupid... along with Twitter... in general

[gohan224 Posted Dec 6th 2009 2:24AM]

wow... scary thing is that i REMEMBER that toy from my childhood! I can almost hear the noise that the spinner in the upper right corner made!
ah.... hard to imagine what that was like almost 30 years ago...

[BikingRadio Posted Dec 6th 2009 4:38PM]

This actually compliments Twitter very well. Short bursts of primitive communication that toddlers are well capable off. Levels the playing between a US senator and my 2 year old. Nice.

[mpeters13 Posted Dec 6th 2009 4:41PM]

The headline was hilarious. I'm still giggling.

[izikavazo Posted Dec 7th 2009 4:26PM]

Aww, I used to have one of those activity boards. I remember having my mind blown when I saw my friends and it was almost exactly the same except it was more colorful. I thought I had the only version of this toy.