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Hell in a Handbasket: Blackberries for Babies

By Rain Noe - January 30, 2009

in Object Culture

The 1980s product My First Sony was egregious enough, but this Baby Blackberry by Leapfrog is just too much. It's just a matter of time until your kid is as tethered to electronic devices as the rest of us, oughtn't you let them enjoy their short-lived freedom from e-mail?

The good news is that while your kid can type messages on the Baby Blackberry, it's not actually hooked up to anything. Though come to think of it, if a parent actually buys this for their child, I think it should be connected with that parent's address book and banking sites so the kid can wreak proper havoc.

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Andrew Haarsager

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Kids have always had miniature versions of adult tech objects - are you saying this is wrong, but a more conventional toy phone is okay? These kids will grow up understanding the connectivity that adults are only recently getting used to. They'll be much better at it than us, so I think it's totally okay.

Unless the argument is that the Blackberry OS is so terribly designed as to not want our nation's children exposed to it. In that case, I agree 100%. Nuts to this thing. :)
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