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Barbie typewriter (2015)

123 点作者 rainbowmverse将近 7 年前

8 条评论

monstormenta将近 7 年前
&quot;As it was probably thought that secret writing would not appeal to girls, the coding&#x2F;decoding facilities were omitted from the manual&quot;.<p>Back in elementary, my friends and I had an entire word replacement bank to talk about crushes, teachers, etc. in code. Later on, we would constantly make new pigpen ciphers. Isn&#x27;t it a stereotype that girls love secrets?<p>Toys aimed toward girls have been steadily improving. I have noticed a great rise particularly in STEM-focused toys and I am excited (and jealous) to see with what the next generation will grow up.
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vanderZwan将近 7 年前
I&#x27;m reminded of <i>&quot;Barbiephonic (redux)&quot;</i>[0], although it&#x27;s only related in the sense that through this story I found yet another story involving Barbie and crypto[1].<p>&gt; <i>And the other thing lying around on those open shares were recordings of names. To reach a wide audience they’d recorded some unstoppably perky young woman reciting kids’ first names, Aaron, Abbot, Abby, Abigail, Adana, Adena, in an upbeat barbie-girl voice, every single one. And there I was with a pile of free disk space, university bandwidth, wget and why not.</i><p>&gt; <i>There were seventeen thousand of them.</i><p>&gt; <i>After a bit of experimentation, I figured out how to stitch them all together with .4 seconds of silence between each. The resulting audio file was almost five hours long; four hours and forty five minutes of relentless Barbiedoll voice reciting seventeen thousand first names in alphabetical order.</i><p>&gt; <i>To my knowledge, nobody has ever listened to the whole thing.</i><p>&gt; <i>Of the six attempts I’m aware of, four were called off when the death threats started, one due to the near-breakup of the couple making the attempt, and one person drinking themselves to unconsciousness at about the 90 minute mark. I’m not saying that to make a joke. I’m telling you because this is real and it’s an SCP-grade psychic biohazard. No highly esteemed deed was committed here; this is not a place of honour.</i><p>The &quot;SCP-grade psychic biohazard&quot; is not that much of an exaggeration, by the way.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;exple.tive.org&#x2F;blarg&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;05&#x2F;barbiephonic-redux&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;exple.tive.org&#x2F;blarg&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;05&#x2F;barbiephonic-redux&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;internet-connected-hello-barbie-doll-gets-bitten-by-nasty-poodle-crypto-bug&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;inter...</a>
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ravenstine将近 7 年前
Mattel sometimes made some really neat Barbie toys. I&#x27;m sure a toy typewriter would have been pretty cool, with or without its ability to encode messages!<p>I remember, as a kid, my sister got a &quot;Talk With Me&quot; Barbie, which was a doll that could be attached to a computer(serial port!) and configured to speak your name with its animatronic mouth. The CD-ROM came with some games that would also trigger the doll to speak. I was a boy, so I really wasn&#x27;t into Barbie, but I was really wowed by that toy and wished my Star Trek toys could do the same! For its time, it was pretty innovative.
JohnJamesRambo将近 7 年前
I don’t know anything about cryptography. Would this have been useful for spies? Please tell me spies somewhere in the past were sending and receiving messages on a Barbie typewriter.
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flyGuyOnTheSly将近 7 年前
What an awesome informational resource.<p>I really wish they had a Random Article button like Wikipedia does.
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userbinator将近 7 年前
I wonder if this feature came about not because it was originally in the &quot;requirements&quot;, but because the layout of the hardware key matrix&#x2F;wire routing may have not been decided completely, and it was easier to include several selectable lookup tables in the masked ROM than have to change the mask (at great cost) later. Then someone thought of adding the ability to change it at runtime, perhaps for testing, and the rest is history...<p>...and in case the alternate lookup tables don&#x27;t seem to map to any keyboard layout, here&#x27;s an example showing that a typical keyboard more often than not does <i>not</i> have the rows and columns in &quot;physical&quot; order: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;map.grauw.nl&#x2F;articles&#x2F;keymatrix.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;map.grauw.nl&#x2F;articles&#x2F;keymatrix.php</a>
paulgerhardt将近 7 年前
One of the more unusual bits of Barbie Typewriter lore was that in at least one instance, an ultra-right wing terrorist cell based in Northern Ireland was using these for communication[1].<p>No indication if the cell was utilizing the &quot;encryption&quot; capabilities of the Barbie typewriter or just putting it to work as the cheapest, most disposable means of conveying demands but the Barbie logo makes an amusing juxtaposition to the operator&#x27;s violent history (including 72(!) prior convictions). Every time this story surfaces, part of me wants to believe that someone somewhere is still using substitution cyphers for serious ends.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;northern-ireland&#x2F;jailed-gang-who-used-barbie-typewriter-and-bullets-to-blackmail-victims-out-of-15k-29285194.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;northern-ireland&#x2F;jai...</a>
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amelius将近 7 年前
Something like this with a built-in tablet stand would be cool.