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02
2010
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Gizmo! |
When I was a nipper it was all about Cabbage Patch Kids. Remember them? Lots of ugly–to put it mildly–children with tortured nasty faces? A different gut-wrenching face on each card that for some reason became completely cult over-night? (If not Google it.) This was how it was for my generation, as old as that sounds: If you didn’t have Cabbage Patch Kids playing cards then you were in trouble in a BIG way. Huge. The playground was not your friend, it was a place of fear and loathing. You either had to buy some cards or borrow some cards or steal some, otherwise you would remain ostracized from the cool kids. You’d be stuck with the real Cabbage Patch Playground kids. (Weirdly the real Cabbage Patch playground children weren’t wanted by anyone; I should know, I was half of one.)
Nowadays Cabbage Patch Kids are an obscurity of the past. Getting a pack out in the playground in 2010 might even end in tears and a trip to the school nurse. Today, it’s all about modern kids gadgets which cost hundreds of pounds and force parents in to bankrupcy; somewhere that loves and endorses all that stuff (apart from bankrupcy per say) is the website www.gizkid.com.
It seems I am way out of touch. Half the things on this website are things I thought were still about ten years out of our technological reach! There are things like iphone gadgets which make the iphone a super-fun thing for three year olds, and even night-vision goggles for five year olds training to be spies (seriously, what other use could night vision goggles serve? It’s actually scary.)