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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Claire Rowlands is a British woman who’s ultra-pissed after the Google Street View car inadvertently captured a shot of her 3-year old son’s bare asscheeks . Pfft, I played in the front yard naked till I was 17. She said: ‘I just felt sick to my stomach when I saw the naked picture of Louis on the internet. I’m angry, disgusted and upset about it - they should be checking every image before it goes up . ‘ They should be extra careful on warm days because this is what children do - he was just playing in the garden and we didn’t expect in a million years he’d have his picture taken and put on the internet for anyone to see. ‘It’s such a clear image, I see it as an indecent photograph - my concern is that paedophiles could see it and there’s no way I ever wanted my son to be seen naked all over the world. Google has now apologised and said it has blurred the image. Two Three words: throw some pants on the kid and stop complaining. Nobody wants to see the little bastard running through the sprinkler naked anyways. Except the ice cream man, and he has his own camera. Mother’s fury after Google Street View publishes naked picture of her son, three, online [dailymail] via Woman’s Horror at Google Street View Photo of Child’s Bottom [gizmodo]

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