Barbie Pink Glam Video Girl Barbie Doll - Mattel - Toys “R” Us

It’s Barbie doll vision with our Barbie Video Girl Doll! Create movies from Barbie doll’s point-of-view with a real video camera inside Barbie doll. The Barbie-cam camera lens is in the doll’s necklace with video screen on back. Barbie Video Girl doll includes USB plug-in cord. 

(h/t to urlesque)

the barbie video girl series!  being a barbie doll with a video camera embedded into her chest in an only slightly off-putting way.  lens embedded in her ‘necklace’, color lcd and controls on the back.  i don’t know who decided she should be wearing a hoodie that’s eternally going to fall in front of the screen, but we kind of already know that doll manufacturers don’t think very highly of little girls, so whatevs.

she specs out at a 320x240 sensor and 256mb internal memory, with two AAA batteries (which store in her thighs, this is a really skeevy camera design) she’s got about an hour of battery life, but can only record 25 minutes of video.  usb out, .avi format.

i mean, for $50 at walgreens you can get at least a 2mp camera that shoots comparable or better video, records to an upgradeable memory card, with probably a rechargeable battery.

but you can’t dress that one up in all the latest styles.  or, from the perspective of young girl detectives and secret agents, carry unnoticed into sensitive areas.  if this had a memory card slot i could see girls using barbies to pass along messages secure from prying eyes, but as it stands, it’s still a pretty rad idea.

not quite as cool as the lego studios moviemaker set, designed to let you easily make lego stop motion films?  but we’ll take it.  hopefully hasbro will follow suit with a flip video camera that turns into an autobot.  [as these things go, the king is still device label soundwave, who turns into a functional mp3 player.  usb hub broad blast is pretty sweet as well.]