Dress your kid up like an iPod, fine. There's nothing cuter. But we have to draw the line somewhere. And if it's not at the iDuck--a silly silver rubber duck with a water-activated LED in its stomach that was probably gathering dust on a warehouse shelf until some duck marketer realized it was iPod-colored, and decided to rename it and put it in a cube-shaped box--then it's at the iDog, a toy from Sega that gets your hopes up really high--in order to poop on them.
I saw the iDog last week in Shinjuku department store and thought, "Sweet, an mp3-playing mini-Aibo." Ahh, no. The iDog "sings" music the way your cell phone did three cell phones ago, and it's moves its head like a flea-bitten animatronic reindeer in a third-tier mall's Santaland display. It DOES play MP3's though, or any other format of audio that uses a minijack. Like the iDuck, this seems like an otherwise forgettable product that's trying to rub a little of that iPod magic on itself.
iDuck, aka the Duck formerly known at the white Glow In The Duck, is 7 pounds, plus shipping, from the punsters at Locomocean [locomocean.com, via gizmodo]
iDog, aka the Least Efficient Way To Waste 4,200 yen, is 4,200 yen [idog-segatoys.com]
