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POPSWhy I like Woot There’s only one gadget column on the web with the unique perspective that comes from being transported through time to discover that you can no longer control your bowels.
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POPSTween Dora? "A childhood fixture for millions, the intrepid bilingual tot who shares word-centric adventures with a talking monkey is growing up. Dios mio, is she. And if you stick your head out the window, you can hear the cries of outraged parents from coast to coast." http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-talk-doramar08,0,7372522.story
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POPSBarbie Now Has Tattoos? From being an innocent and sweet toy for girls, Mattel decided to bring things up a notch and parents are not happy about it. Barbie has been around for 50 years and was distributed in every shape and form possible. She’s been a princess, a mermaid, and a NASCAR fan? What the eff were they thinking? This time around, America’s little sweetheart is the toy version of the girls from Miami Ink. That’s right, Barbie now comes with tattoos!
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POPSNew games powered by brain waves In a report this week USA Today newspaper said game maker Uncle Milton plans to release a similar game this year. Called "Force Trainer" it is named after "The Force" powers of Yoda and Luke Skywalker in the popular Star Wars films. The game calls for players to lift a ball inside a transparent tube using their powers of concentration. "It's been a fantasy everyone has had, using The Force," the daily quoted Howard Roffman, president of Lucas Licensing, as saying. "Force Trainer" also uses electroencephalography, or EEG, to measure electrical activity in the brain recorded on a headset containing sensors.
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POPSRobotic arms Add a mind-reading device like the one presented by Mattel at CES and fun should ensue.
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POPS"Islam is the light" doll--SHARIAH LAW DOLL manufactured by MATTEL PLEASE EDUCATE our communities about the threat of the Islamic legal and political doctrine of Shariah. Shariah is particularly discriminatory and violent towards Muslim and non-Muslim girls and women. This unadvertised use of a doll - without any notice to parents in the doll's packaging - to advocate Islam to children is particularly offensive and inappropriate, given the very real risks to girls under Shariah.