Playmates Toys Interactive Doll: Impress Your Kid: Freak Yourself Out Edit

This thing is real.  I am not kidding.  The face moves, the doll has voice recognition, it can sing and make animal noises.  The doll (Amazing Amanda) can play games with you (or your kid) such as funny faces.  She also recognizes her food (via RFID technology).  Amanda speaks english, has 32 megabits of memory and she’s scary.

Amazing Amanda Interactive Robotic Doll: $100
Freaking yourself out: Priceless.

I have nothing else to say.

If you want to know more, read the press release:

COSTA MESA, CA – In 2005, Playmates Toys will introduce its most Amazing toy
with the release of the interactive Amazing Amanda toddler, expanding on the classic
Amazing brand that generated $250 million in retail sales in the late 1990s. Leading up
the debut of Amazing Amanda, Playmates Toys’ Amazing brand has continued
revolutionize the doll category since the 1998 launch of Amazing Amy, the world’s
truly interactive large doll. Combining traditional mothering and nurturing play patterns
with break-through object recognition technology, Amazing Amy offered the most
technologically-advanced, interactive doll play available. Dominating the large
category for four consecutive years, Playmates’ Amazing Amy was followed by
best-selling Amazing Ally and Amazing Maddie in 1999, Amazing Babies in 2000
Amazing Ashley in 2001.

Using the most advanced technology, the Amazing brand continues to grow and expand
with exciting new innovations and personalities. The new 2005 offerings,
Amazing Amanda and Amazing Pets Cold Nose Puppies, incorporate the very latest
technology and follow in the Amazing brand’s tradition of creating innovative, hyperrealistic
and highly interactive play experiences for the child.
Building on the Amazing innovative, advanced technology, the next generation
Amazing toys will include Amazing Amanda, the only real-to-life large doll who provides
the most unique emotional experience between a ‘mother’ and her ‘child.’ As the
and only interactive doll of its kind, Amazing Amanda expresses real emotion
engages in two-way communication, taking nurturing play to an entirely new level.