11.26.2008 9:15 am
Christmas gifts for tech-hungry kids
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
When putting together those Christmas shopping lists, it’s easy to get wrapped up in Apple iPhones, Blackberry Storms, new MP3 players and other high tech goodies. I mean those shopping lists you are making for yourself.
But don’t forget the kids. They crave technology just as much, if not more. With that in mind, Yahoo Tech is offering a gift guide to buying tech toys for kids.
Among them:
- EyeClops Night Vision Stealth Goggles - Obviously you’re not getting military grade night vision with this scope, but kids can play commando like they do in the movies, with this headset-mounted infrared viewing system. Considering real night vision scopes cost hundreds of dollars, I assure you the adults will be trying these on as much as the kids are. $50
- Skoodlez - These are just stuffed animals, really, but each Skoodle comes with a unique code that lets children create a customized story on the Skoodlez website starring their particular character. Very affordable, too. $15
- Hannah Montana Pop Tour Guitar Video Game - Kids like the look of Rock Band but can’t manage the guitar? Check out this purple number, which connects to your TV and lets kids jam through 10 Hannah Montana songs using only three buttons instead of five. $45
Tim has covered a wide range of topics, including tourism, crime, aviation and gambling, since becoming a reporter in 1990. The Oklahoma native joined the Post-Dispatch in 2007 after spending nine years in Orlando. In his spare time, he's often exploring one virtual world or another. He can be reached at tbarker@post-dispatch.com. 
Toys these days are ever increasingly designed to condition children to accept the police state that their parents are dumbed down to accept. Night vision goggles? What are these for? Accept to condition children for the kind of world that the Republicans and Democrats have conditioned us for the last 40 years to accept as a “normal society” where they are the Gods for us to worship and we’re lowly unwashed Gentiles.
Dude…..its a freaking toy. You didnt have a roy rodgers bb gun when you were a kid? Save that pshyco-babble for more important things like how people will even afford these toys in todays economy.