Gizmodo: teddy

Willcom Kuma Phone Puts the Cellphone Inside the Teddy Bear

John Mahoney — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:45:00 EDT

Here's an idea: people gesticulating wildly with their hands-free headsets already look crazy—why not capitalize on our nation's love of all things crazy and cute by putting a cellphone inside of an, oh, i don't know, a teddy bear! So went a recent design meeting at Japanese firm Willcom apparently, who was showing their $500 Kuma (bear) Phone concept at the recent Good Design Expo in Tokyo. Kuma takes an embedded SIM card and has assignable speed dial points on each paw, which you dial by squeezing. And of course, to accept and hang up calls, you squeeze its ass. Of course. [Trends in Japan]

Headless Teddy Bear USB Drive Combines Kiddy Nightmares, Storage in One

Kit Eaton — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:12:00 EDT

Ages ago we showed you a DIY version, but now the removable-head Teddy Bear USB drive is a real product, ready to trigger-off those childhood nightmares all over again. The little guy is around 3 x 3.75 inches, is USB 2.0, stores 1GB inside its teddy guts, and costs $17. Not much else to say. [Geekalerts]

Skinned Robo Teddy will Instill a Healthy Fear of Robots in Your Kid

Adam Frucci — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:30:00 EDT

One of the great joys of parenting, as I understand it, is being handed a malleable lump of proto-humanity that sees you as some kind of god, absorbing everything you do and say as a lifelong lesson. It's a big responsibility, sure, but also an opportunity to create a really… unique individual. Which is why I just have to recommend getting one of these absolutely terrifying robo teddy bears for your toddler.

Controlled via a Wii Nunchuk, the evil teddy is a modified BJ Bearytales that can move its mouth, blink, move its arms and instill a lifelong fear of both bears and robots in any impressionable child. You simply tilt the Nunchuk or use the joystick to control it, preferably while hiding in your kid's closet in the middle of the night, waking them up to this skinned, robotic teddy bear waving its arms all by itself.

Parenting! [Bendering Time via Make]

Talking Twittering Teddy Bear is Nearly A Freaky Mod Too Far

Kit Eaton — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:27:00 EDT

Having a cyborg teddy reading out your Twitter alerts... *shiver* the idea gives me the creeps a little. But not the guys who came up with the idea over at HyHome2.0. They've even got an instructional video so you can build your own artificial-voice bear, which uses Bluetooth to get data from your PC so you can plop the toy anywhere and still keep in touch. I'm not going to be building one: I've got a vision of teddy getting bored with endless inane Twitter updates, slapping in some steel fangs in its cyber-jaw and chewing its way out of the house. [Project page via Hackaday]

Gutted Teddy Bear Reincarnated Inside Robosapien Body

Louis Ramirez — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:45:59 EST

As cool as this hack is, there's something creepy about seeing someone gut a teddy bear and then stuff its lifeless skin with the cold body of a Robosapien. Yet as disturbing as the video is, I can't help but watch it till the bitter end. R.I.P. teddy. – Louis Ramirez

Robosapien Bear [SlashGear]