Julie is coming!
Watch out, Cabbage Patch Kids, you’re set for the compost heap.
The latest smart investment to keep little girls happy is Julie the Wonder Doll. She thinks — she has a brain 25 times faster than a home computer. She listens — Julie responds to her owner’s voice.
She’s intelligent — the strawberry blonde knows the answer to over 100 questions, and sensors in her fingers help her read out loud from books supplied with her. Julie senses heat, cold, light, darkness and movement, sings and talks with synchronised eyes, face and mouth, and speaks on various subjects with the help of credit-card sized inserts.
Asked: “Are you hungry?” she has a range of remarks from “I’d like something for my tummy” to “Not at the moment, thanks.”
Asked if she can sing, she launches into “Twinkle, twinkle, little star.”
If the child does not speak clearly, Julie will scold: “Don’t mumble — I can’t understand what you’re saying.” A spokesman for the toymakers said: “Julie is the new age doll. The kids she’s been tested on just fell in love with her.”
Julie, made by a company in California, will be lit' American shops for Christmas and will soon start talking her way into little girls’ hearts all round the world. —Copyright DUO.
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