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Germany told parents to destroy this talking doll

boingboing.net • 22 Jul 2026, 16:30

Germany told parents to destroy this talking doll
My Friend Cayla — Bijay Chaurasia / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons) — illustrative; not the actual doll

In 2014, a talking doll named My Friend Cayla was voted Innovative Toy of the Year. Three years later the German government was telling parents to destroy it. Cayla listened to a child through a hidden microphone, beamed the audio over Bluetooth to a phone app, searched the internet for an answer, and spoke back after about a one-second delay. — Read the rest

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