Remember the round fleshy people stuffed into chairs with sippy cups and video screens hovering just inches from their faces in Pixar’s 2008 film Wall-E? I had always assumed they were intended as critical commentary on an over-mediated consumer society, not as an actual product concept. Evidently the designers over at Fisher-Price either didn’t see the film, or didn’t get the satire. There is no other explanation for the creation of The Newborn-to-Toddler Apptivity™ Seat for iPad® device—the unholy merging of a child […]

Categories: Bodies, Childhood, Consumption, End of Times, iPad • Tags: Aldous Huxley, Apptivity™ Seat, Betas, Brain Plasticity, Brave New World, Fisher-Price, iPad, iPotty, Science Fiction, Wall-E