How sweet is this? Take that creepy toy from our childhood and mash that bad boy up with Twitter and a text-to-speech program and voila! a Twittering Teddy Ruxpin. This is a great example of a company making something so cool to people that they don’t care it is financed by corporate dollars. Sponsored by Verizon FiOS, this mashup is corporate publicity stunts done right.
How 2.0: Make a Twittering Teddy Bear from My Home 2.0 DIY on Vimeo.
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