From Leapfrog, maker of all things loud and useless, comes a new
product you've really got to hope nobody sends your kid for her
birthday -- the Baby BlackBerry. We all know that babies, toddlers and
preschoolers are magnetically attracted to all their parents'
electronic goodies (in our house, the iPhones are zealously guarded,
lest the toddler make off with one and smear the screen with his grubby
little hands), but is that any reason to buy them one of their own?
Isn't this inviting an ever-faster indoctrination into the cult of
consumerism, creating a new generation that will be even more
disconnected from actual interaction that those preceding it?
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