It might not have the cachet of the iPhone, but the sheer ubiquity of Motorola’s hate-it-or-hate-it RAZR means it has achieved an altogether higher form of immortality. It has been made into a toy for babies.
Here we see the plastic representation of Moto’s iconic, hard-to-use clamshell handset. It has all the features needed to entertain an eighteen-month-old: chewy plastic corners, annoying sounds (just like the real thing!) and a rubberized, spittle-proof keypad.
In fact, this toy is so suited to the partially developed human that BoingBoingGadget’s John Brownlee, who visited my temporary Berlin apartment last night to beg for companionship (it appears that even his paedokeet pet, Humbert Humbird, has grown tired of him) dropped his iPhone and picked up the Baby RAZR.
"I can’t believe you still use one of these," he scoffed, brandishing his (old, first-gen) iPhone. "You’re a professional gadget blogger," he continued, "you should be setting an example!"
Ah, the irony. I believe Brownlee returned to his lonely home still chuckling, unaware that the toy was in fact a toy. A toy that, incidentally, doesn’t even fool its owner, a real baby that only two days ago mistook the Lady’s furry hat for a potty and attempted to make a deposit.
Price, unknown. Availability: your local dime-store. More pictures below.
The front view, complete with fake camera.
The back. John Brownlee’s teethmarks can be clearly seen.
This screen changes as you tilt it, offering blurry images. The screen is in fact the only place where the toy fails to beat the original RAZR.
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