This is actually wonderful. Barbie’s had 124 careers since 1959, ranging from Stewardess to Paratrooper. Today she gets her 125th: computer engineer. You can tell she’s smart ’cause she’s got glasses and reads nothing but binary.
We like foosball, despite the fact that we can’t play real football. We like Barbie, despite the fact that she doesn’t have any genitalia. It’s no surprise then that we really like Foosball Barbie.
Satre Stuelke seems to have three passions: McDonald’s fast food, toys, and gadgets—specially the GE 4-slice medical research scanner he uses to create these stunning images and videos at Cornell University’s Biomedical Imaging Centre:
Have you ever witnessed a modified Barbie-themed Power Wheel drift through snow at 32kph? No? Then you haven’t lived, friend. [via bbGadgets]
The blonde bombshell known for her appearance in “Barbie,” the self-titled 1985 C64 game, turned 50 today. Some allege that Barbie is popular for reasons other than C64 compatibility, but we’re not so sure. [Allure]
OK, who here told the Barbie people about thermal printer technology?
You know what’s fun? When Chinese fakes actually turn out to be more useful (and would possibly sell better) than the real product. Case in point: This mobile phone designed to look like Mattel’s Barbie B2 mp3 player.
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 states 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.
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]
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.
