Hands On: Cyborg Fashion Photo Barbie

Barbie , at once a grammatical gender pioneer and enabler of countless anorectic , has find her newest purpose : human - machine hybrid .

Barbie Photo Fashion is just like any other digital photog out there — immaculate blond tomentum , chunky inwardness - bejeweled belt , eyes the size of it of pancakes , and a tremendous LCD engraft in her abdomen . rather of a DSLR , however , her shooter of alternative is the lens sticking out of her back . When I determine her at Toy Fair , I jest to the Mattel rep creepily garnish to resemble her , So , Nikon or Canon ? But alternatively of replying , she just star at me and I find out my reflection in her grinning , and the world seemed cold and alien to me . Then I looked back at Barbie Photo Fashion ( should n’t it be Fashion Photo Barbie ? ) and saw my aspect framed by cupcakes , just one of the Fun Customizations allowed . The screen see awful , but it ’s all right — I feel skilful . It ’s lame that Mattel stereotypes girls , think the well-situated way to put a digital photographic camera into a new female person ’s hands is by smuggle it inside a doll , but maybe it ’ll spark an interest group in photography that would n’t start otherwise .

Barbie Photo Fashion will be $ 50 when she walk into plaything stores this summertime . She comes with a pink , glittery USB cord .