Customizable Dolls Take Creepy to a Whole New Level!
Posted by Tony on June 22nd, 2012
Every time you think dolls couldn’t get any creepier…SURPRISE!
This new evolution of the doll species is taking it to a whole new level.
Produced out of London and Helsinki, Makie dolls are a new breed of doll for the ‘maker’ set. Featuring a buffet of customizable features, Makies allow their owners to choose the doll’s face, nose, jaw, smile, hair, clothes, hands and feet. MakieLab (the creator of the doll) also hopes that people will modify the doll in creative ways so they’ve thought ahead by allowing space in the doll for wires, battery packs and even a Lilypad Arduino set (a user-programmed motherboard of sorts) that fits perfectly inside its head.
Currently in alpha, MakieLab is hoping that this doll will be a hit with their target demographic. 3D printing techniques are being used to create the head, hands, feet and even the body. Bioplastic material is used in the process and can be recycled into other items for the doll so that nothing goes to waste when a Makie is created. As MakieLabs moves out of the alpha phase of testing they’ll be including “paints, colours, makeup and add-ons to help you turn MAKIE into the creature of your imagination.”
Yeah…they said ‘creature’. NOT ‘doll’.
MakieLabs is aiming for the fences with their doll. The dolls and articles about them are popping up all over the place right now. Online social networks which are geared around the doll are on their way along with other ways to get the doll interacting with online features the company is creating.
They’re hoping that people will go crazy in customizing these things.
We’re hoping that only happy people who love dolls make them.
Waking up in your house realizing you’re strapped to your bed like Gulliver and having a doll or two in your face saying (let’s face it…SOMEONE’S going to make these things talk eventually), “Back off! I wanna buy a customised human” (that caption is taken directly from underneath the image used in this post that’s on their site).
So…what have we learned today, kids? Yep..dolls are still creepy.
But dolls with moveable eyes and an Arduino-enabled brain?
Horrific.
Sleep tight!
[Makie.me]
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June 22nd, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Terrifying. I’m going to have nightmares about these things…
June 23rd, 2012 at 2:55 pm
‘He-Who-Kills’ can’t be far away now.