Comments on: Video Girl Barbie Will Be Watching

By: AM Oderngrl

AM Oderngrl — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:21:19 +0000

Oh, playing doctor with Ken is so old-fashioned. And doctors don’t make nearly the money they expected to. We make little, erm, movies instead. And next year we’re going to Vegas to that little electronics show to find a distributor. I love the 21st century!

PS Megaloves to Gulf War Barbie. You rocked, grannie!

By: Patricie Sapphire

Patricie Sapphire — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:47:44 +0000

A Barbie that shoots video, hmmmm.

Could be that some parents might find
out inadvertinly that their children are
undressing the Barbie and playing doctor
with Ken!

By: Alyx Stoklitsky

Alyx Stoklitsky — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:29:20 +0000

Every paedophile will want one.

By: Bubblesort Triskaidekaphobia

Bubblesort Triskaidekaphobia — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:14:32 +0000

I wonder what ever happened to the whole “internet of things” rhetoric we used to hear about RFID taking over everything and tracking your shoe laces and what not.

Infomercials like the one linked to here are getting more and more common in recent months. I noticed it started getting ridiculous when everybody and their brother on YouTube was shooting bic razor ads. It’s good to see some money getting spread around to content creators, and it’s good that they usually shoot ads as separate videos, rather than trying to be sneaky about it, but I still get annoyed at it sometimes. It’s not enough that we have to put up with banners and pre-scrolls and post-scrolls and pop-up banners on the videos, now the video itself is an ad.

I wonder how far youtube “celebrities” will push this? I mean, how many ads can you shoot before you loose all credibility? I don’t mean the “how to” or “tech” categories on YouTube, either. If you are making videos in those categories you are probably hawking iPhones and makeup. That’s different because the viewers there are like people who read fashion magazines. They consume it for the ads. Bunch of freaks if you ask me. I mean the top vloggers and comedians, how far can they push this?

By: marilyn murphy

marilyn murphy — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:37:44 +0000

killing childrens imagination as technology advances.

i got to read some letters written by farm boy soldiers from the civil war. their command of the language and ability to express themselves was impressive to me. these were the products of one room schoolhouses on the whole.
when i was a child my barbie could sit if you bent her just right. thats about all. everything else was imagination and clothing choice.
applying more substitution for imagination strikes me as not good.

By: II Singh

II Singh — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:59:16 +0000

Disjointed babble again… Cube3 a legend in his own neuron scrambled brain. The “metaverse pioneer” ….yeah right.. A man with a point, even less likely.

By: Darien Caldwell

Darien Caldwell — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:14:01 +0000

“dolls with more memory capacity than the kids who their bought for”

Ok, that one did make me LOL

By: c3

c3 — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:05:35 +0000

80s eh.? lol

before your were born ? or reached beta?

to equate content with baud rate truly does make my points..once again.

hey khan2?…yours is “superior”….lol (1982)

get back to your studies;) do some work.

gen. drama, you must live in Philly eh?….;) watch out for those school admins handing out laptops….”edumacation for better children — like our booger–”lol (all that hard work of programming digital children and look what chris whittle got…)

dolls with more memory capacity than the kids who their bought for:)

By: General Drama

General Drama — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:34:25 +0000

Obviously, this is a clever plan by Mattel to create a global Big Sister network of spy cameras that will enable the company to keep tabs on the behavior of the girls of the world (as well as their closeted brothers who sneak in a play with Barbie from time to time). Helps to get these girls comfortable with being on camera in their own bedrooms so they can look forward to backup careers as webcam internet stripper whores.

How soon before we see the first case of a pedophile figuring out how to wardrive all the barbiecams in their community…?

By: II Singh

II Singh — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:03:48 +0000

@Booger and @Cube
Actually Booger is right. I have never understood cube’s drug addled ramblings on Prok’s blog or here. I may be a little too dismissive my initial assessment of cube’s condition or rampant incoherence was the result of drugs. It might be the case that cube is either cognitively impaired… perhaps autism. Either way, whatever ideas cube has seems to be lost in translation… perhaps a bad modem connection… you need to replace your 300 baud acoustic coupler modem and buy yourself a broadband connection. Though the low baud modem would go a long ways to explaining your in-world product that looks like something from the 80′s. Try thinking in complete sentences chum. Perhaps a few night classes or counseling would help as well.