Talk With Me! Barbie doll and infared computer terminal
Talk With Me! Barbie doll, released in 1997. A caucasian Barbie doll with long blonde hair and a fringe, in a pink body suit and gold and pink jacket, pink high heels, and with a built-in gold necklace. She has a pink desk unit with a blue office chair, and an off-white desktop computer and monitor on the desk.The monitor and desktop computer feature stickers, and are branded with Intel Inside.
There is a full-sized cable attached to the computer and desk, with a nine pin serial port to connect to a computer. When connected and used in conjunction with the accompanying CD Rom, the doll "speaks", moving her mouth in time with recorded speech, activated by an infrared transmitter in the computer monitor, and picked up by a receiver built in to the doll's necklace.
More
Part of a broad suite of Babrie toy sets which included CD Roms in the mid 1990s, Talk With Me! Barbie was part of a growing market of multimedia toys for children that were designed to work with household computers, taking advantage in the growth of home computing. Between 1997 and 2001, this and other Barbie multimedia toys were marketed under the "Barbie Software for Girls" label.
- Measurements:
-
overall: 250 x 170 x 250 mm
- Materials:
- plastic (unidentified)
- Object Number:
- 2000-193 Pt1
- type:
- character doll and model
