Barbie Video Girl is a new $50 doll with integrated video camera so girls can make movies of themselves playing in their bedrooms from Barbie’s point of view. This is going to end badly. You dun goofed, Mattel! The Barbie Video Girl Doll ($50, Mattel, for ages 6 and up) looks just like a regular Barbie, but a closer look reveals a camera in her pendant, and a postage-sized color screen on her back, peaking through her blouse. Powered by two AAA batteries (one in each leg), the doll can record up to 30 minutes of Webcam quality AVI video, with a three-button interface. You can watch your recordings on the doll’s screen, but with no sound. Or you can transfer them to your Macintosh or Windows computer by way of the included mini-U.S.B. cable. Granted I would have killed for a He-Man cam growing up so I could have filmed myself playing naked Master of the Universe, but you know what? So would’ve my uncle. Product Site via Lights, Camera, Barbie? [gadgetwise] Thanks to Kate, who sent me a stuffed dino with a camera in the eyes. Nice try, Kate, but I always blindfold him.

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Bad Ideas: Barbie Video Girl Has Integrated Video Camera

Seen here pretending to be more than two feet off the ground , 13-year old Hibiki Kono made himself a vacuum powered wall-climbing suit so he can escape the asylum and avenge his parents’ deaths. Ooooor climb a brick wall while people take pictures. Using a pair of 1,400-watt vacuums he purchased at UK retailer Tesco, Hibiki Kono hooked them up to a couple of large suction pads, and proceeded to ascend a vertical surface with the contraption strapped to his back and arms. Well damn, future Mr. Dyson — you’ve got inventor written all over you! Also, “I have sex with appliances”. Let me guess: you had too much Sunny-D and passed out with your shoes on again. Hit the jump for a video of Hibiki and his magic suit in action.

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13-Year Old Makes Wall-Climbing Vacuum Suit

Note: Video is after the jump because I’m a firm believer in never-nudity. This is a video of a fit looking mom playing the Rock Band drums butt-ass naked in front of her children . Now I’m not saying I’m gonna befriend these kids so I can come over and join the band, but they better keep a fridge full of Sunny-D. Hit it for 17-seconds of not your mom.

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Now That’s Just Good Parenting: Playing Rock Band Butt-Ass Naked In Front Of Your Kids

This is a little gallery of children’s drawings copied and painted realistically by Dave Devries as part of a project called Monster Engine. What’s Monster Engine? The opposite of an angel caboose, silly! Eleven years ago Dave Devries started the Monster Engine project with one single question: What would a child’s drawing look like if it were painted realistically? The process is simple. I project a child’s drawing with an opaque projector, faithfully tracing each line. Applying a combination of logic and instinct, I then paint the image as realistically as I can. My medium is mixed–primarily acrylic, airbrush, and colored pencil. Dave admittedly does a great job, but I’m still convinced most of these kids are, or will soon be, serial killers. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been known to crush a box of Count Chocula in my day, but — you see where this is going? I hate myself already. Hit the jump for a whole bunch more.

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Future Serial Killers: Kids’ Drawings Painted Realistically

Wiiwaa is a new Wii game that comes with a stuffed animal peripheral . Basically you put a Wiimote (NOT YOUR PENIS) in its mouth and then dry hump it from behind like there’s no tomorrow. Because there might not be. Don’t believe me? Hit the jump for a video of Weewoo in action.

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Wii Game With Stuffed Animal Peripheral

A group of Belgian university students from the Expertise centre for Digital Media (EDM) at Hasselt University created the Twoddler: a Fisher-Price busy-board connected to an Arduino that transmits toddlers’ play into reassuring tweets for their parents (it’s a real project, but the idea is a gag, no one really thinks that parents need to have “Jimmy hit the red button” tweeted to them) (this last to pre-empt the inevitable humorless comments about how this is emblematic of some kind of crisis in parenting). Twoddler: Twittering Toddlers from Bart Swennen on Vimeo . I am a toddler and want my mommy and daddy to know how I am doing while in nursery. They are so busy, but are thinking of me all the time. I want to let them know I am also thinking about them. I can’t phone them, I can’t mail them and I can’t write letters, but I CAN twitter! They love to feel my presence and know that I am active. And that’s not all: I can also twoddler with my friends; we have our own way of communicating that is way cooler than sending text messages. We are showing off what we are doing with our activity boards. When I play, my friends can see this! The best thing is: it doesn’t have to make sense, no stupid boring grown-up logic — just playing! Twoddler: Twittering Toddlers ( Thanks, JP! ) Previously: Learn how to use the Arduino microcontroller with Make's tutorial … Getting Started with Arduino - Boing Boing Make's gift guide to Arduino - Boing Boing Arduino starter project video - Boing Boing Open source handheld game kit: Meggy Jr - Boing Boing

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Muji’s going to start selling hole-punches that knock out patterns that can be threaded between two Lego bricks. They go on sale in a week, and open up many possibilities for crafty Lego extensions. LEGO for MUJI Paper and Block Sets ( via Make ) Previously: USB devices stuffed into legos — Boing Boing Gadgets - Boing Boing Frank Lloyd Wright Lego — Boing Boing Gadgets - Boing Boing Patching ancient walls with legos - Boing Boing Lego arms-dealer - Boing Boing

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Lego hole-punch for paper-meets-Lego projects

Brando’s Auto Domino Building Truck is a battery-powered toy truck that shits bricks — that is, it poops out dominos standing on end at the correct intervals to make a domino run. Or so the manufacturer says — I haven’t tried it yet. But I have a vision of setting this thing down at one end of an airport concourse and creating a mile-long run. I love that the dominos load in via a magazine that sticks out of the top like a banana-clip on an automatic rifle. The Auto Domino Building Truck ( via Red Ferret )

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A face mask with which to attract hungry, curious hummingbirds, $80 from heatstick.com . The masks do look silly, and the website is nothing if not homebaked. But if the maker’s YouTube videos are to be believed, these contraptions do attract the little buggers and make for amazing eye-to-eye encounters with one of the most magical winged creatures on the planet. I’m kind of dying to try one out. Using and enjoying the feeder is a two step process. The first is to acquaint the hummingbirds with the feeder. We set an old can of paint on a small shelf on the side of the barn and slipped the feeder onto the can. It wasn’t long before the hummingbirds found it, and after a little searching, found the feeding station. Then we let them get familiar with the feeder for a few days. Finally we set a chair next to the shelf, removed the feeder from the can, slipped it on and waited. One never forgets the first time a hummingbird suddenly arrives at the feeder right in front of your eyes. Video embedded above: ” Chris Makes a New Friend ” [YouTube] Product: ” Eye to Eye Wearable Hummingbird Feeder .” The guy behind it lives in California’s Humboldt County, and has invented some other neat earth-gadgety stuff, too, like the Veg-a-Lot growing shelter [heatstick.com]. (Thanks, Dean Putney !)

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( Download MP4 video or Watch on YouTube , or view with subtitles on Dotsub ). Institute for the Future teamed up with Sun Microsystems and Boing Boing Video to co-host the Digital Open , an online tech expo for teens 17 and under around the world. In today’s episode, you’ll meet the “Funky Shiitake Mushrooms,” a group of young people from a Fremont, CA high school who build robotic blimps. The one you see in this video also doubles as a fashionable hat, as you can see from the photo inset at left (that’s me with the headgear). The blimp in this episode is named “Skittles the Second,” after the popular, cartoon-colored candy. They’d made an earlier version of “Skittles,” but that one floated away. In fact, it floated all the way to a farm near Yosemite. The farmer found an ID tag on the floataway airship, and phoned a teacher at the high school to advise. The teen makers were eager to road trip out there and pick it up, but only one of them was old enough to drive. Their energy and inventiveness was inspiring. I hope you enjoy the video as much as we enjoyed making it. Read more about the youth competition in IFTF’s press release announcing Digital Open winners . And you can visit team Funky Shiitake Mushrooms online, here . Previously: BB Video: IFTF, Sun, and Boing Boing Launch Digital Open Youth … Digital Open: online tech expo for young people - Boing Boing Digital Open tech innovation expo for global youth: 10 more days …

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Digital Open Winners: "Hybrid Airship," by teen robotic blimp builders.