Puppy Tweets

"Mattel's Puppy Tweets is a dog tag that you put on your actual dog; the tag then senses the pooch's activity levels, barking, and the like and sends any of a set of pre-set tweets to its own Twitter feed. Amazingly enough, all dogs type in English."
Ok so usually I find all things twitter related pretty ridiculous, but is it bad that I kind of want to try this?
Check out some other crazy gadgets at Popular Science's article on the Top 10 from the NY Toy Fair, including a pogo stick that jumps several feet in the air (you can do a flip on it! check out their video highlight reel for that...it would scare the crap out of me), electronic scrabble tiles that are kinda like a mix between scrabble and text twist, and waterproof playing cards.

On Cuteness

Vanity Fair had a really great article recently on America's addiction to Cute. Check it out here.
I think this article makes so many great points and is very well-written. It could easily be extended into a book--some of the topics were only briefly touched on, and could be expanded. For instance, his point about the cute addiction affecting even food: the obsession with cupcakes and, I would add, slider burgers! And everyone is familiar with the self-perpetuating black hole that is watching animal videos on youtube, which induce "cutegasms" (a term I had never heard before).
Well worth a read.

Related: OMG CUTEGASM!!!!

"the boy is on top, and the girl is on the bottom." Hahaha.
But seriously. I want a pug dog. And I will call it Pugancious D. And it shall be so.