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Dear Iran: Barbie Ain't So Bad, But Robot Vacs Are Evil

This week, Iran told Barbie, "We have to talk." It's not an all-out Dear John situation, but the blonde dolly may need to tread lightly in the country. She's not the only one: Spider-Man, Batman and Harry Potter are already on the clerical watch list. Yep, the country that brought you carpets, backgammon, ethanol, windmills and carrots—one that until the Islamic Revolution in 1979 was the most progressive state in the Islamic world—is considering a Barbie Ban. When I saw that, I wondered what other products had been branded off limits, and which gadgets were left for the Barbie-less boys and girls to play with. Turns out, the mullahs might not have their priorities straight. More »

11:00 AM on Sun May 4 2008
By AddyDugdale
8,604 views, 49 comments

Latest by daniel: @FY9: I don't need to Google it. I know what a "mutawa" is. I visited Saudi, was out in plain sight during prayer time. Never gotten questioned, or harassed. Went to stores, went to restaurants. Nothing whatso ever. As for the dictatorship regimes. Egypt more »

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Barbie B2 Music Player Just Scoops iPhone for Gadget of the Year

Sometimes, it's hard to be a woman. Especially when you see things like the Barbie B2 touchscreen MP3 player, aimed at the female market in Korea. I don't think the player includes the pube-clad doll, but perhaps it would be better for mankind if it did. [Aving USA]

3:31 AM on Thu Dec 6 2007
By AddyDugdale
2,623 views, 10 comments

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Student Makes Barbie an Electric Chair for Science Fair Project

Middle school student Jessyratfink (not her real name) came up with an innovative &mdash and utterly brazilliant &mdash project for her science fair: an electric chair for Barbie. You can find out just how she did it on the Instructables website, but there's a small gallery below of her handiwork. More »

6:08 AM on Tue Sep 11 2007
By AddyDugdale
10,103 views, 28 comments

Latest by n/a: *phew* Thought I was the sickest puppy around here. Clearly THAT ain't the case!! more »

snob kids

BarbieGirls MP3 Player Unlocks Chat Rooms, Content, Peer Pressure

These BarbieGirls MP3 players are bizarre for more than their creepy doll shape: Apparently they are designed to teach your kids about exclusion and peer pressure. When you plug the $59.99 device into the included dock, they unlock exclusive content and chat rooms that only other kids with dolls can access, making them a My-First-Country-Club gadget as well as a portable music device. And yes, it gets even worse. More »

4:00 AM on Wed Jul 25 2007
By gizmodo.com
5,171 views, 12 comments

no shrimp on this barbie

BoomChef Solar-Powered Hot Dog Grill Is Niche Market Gold

If there is one complaint I have about every boomerang competition I go to, it's that there simply aren't enough hot dogs. Apparently boomerang enthusiast Paul Sprague and I don't frequent the same contests, because when he goes boomeranging (yep, that's a word), he brings along his self-designed BoomChef solar-powered grill, built intentionally for grilling up hot dogs at boomerang competitions. When he says solar powered, he means it—the thing is literally a glass box that catches sunlight bounced off a reflective Mylar panel. More »

7:47 PM on Tue Jul 17 2007
By kthompson
3,539 views, 13 comments

Latest by Trackback: I'm not sure I understand the connection between competitive boomerang-ing and the need for a solar powered cooking device, but never mind. more »

high-octane barbie

BBQ Grill Made of a V8 Engine Block

Add this to our collection of crazy barbecue grills, this one looking exactly like a V-8 engine. That's because it's made of a Chevy V-8 engine block, retrofitted with a grill and propane burners that can crank out 60,000 BTU.

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10:37 AM on Tue Jul 10 2007
By Charlie White
18,942 views, 13 comments

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Barbie Scoops Poop, Dog Desperately Hungry

This one has us scratching our heads: there's Barbie with the pooper scooper, dutifully disposing of little turds, but what's that in her dog Tanner's bowl, and, uh, in his mouth? That must be one hungry dog. Do I detect a shit-eating grin on his face? – Charlie White More »

2:47 PM on Thu Nov 30 2006
By Charlie White
11,739 views, 34 comments

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Mattel Wants Your Money This Holiday Season

I hope you're on Santa's Good List this year since you wouldn't want to miss out on some of the toys that Mattel's got lined up for the Holidays. With plenty of toys that are far more advanced than anything I ever played with as a youth (broken bottles, clothes pins, shoe laces, etc.), Mattel may be siphoning off a few of your dollars come December. Read on for a small preview of what your kids (or you, weirdo) might be playing with. More »

1:17 PM on Tue Jun 20 2006
By Gizloco
2,010 views, 10 comments

Latest by DancingJester: Dang you dalziel_86!! I wanted to be the first to look 'learned' by pointing out that a hovercraft has nothing to do with Heart of Darkness, I mean sure there where a couple of boats in there, but no hovering more »

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Barbie Phone, For Grown Women?

I can't tell if Gigabyte's Barbie handset is meant for little girls or grown women. I mean, it's pink and seems to have a poodle etched into the back cover (along with a good-sized speaker to play music from the built-in MP3 player), but it's got some pretty high-end features like a megapixel camera (can't figure out how many from the Chinese website), SD card slot for extra memory and a large 176x220-pixel screen size. It's a slider phone, which I dig, and it supports GPRS, WAP and Java. Either way, it's certainly different. More »

10:04 AM on Thu Dec 15 2005
By tgrumet
252 views, Comment

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eBay Deal of the Day: Star Trek Barbie Bluetooth Handsfree Headset

Some die-hard Trekkie would probably love to get his hands on this. A guy from New Zealand modded this Barbie doll to a) look like a Star Trek crew member, and b) act as a Bluetooth handsfree headset. Yes, that's right, it's embedded with a Bluetooth headset. According to Ms. Barbie herself: More »

2:44 PM on Wed Aug 17 2005
By gizmogo
430 views