You can file this one under the “Well Duh!” category but a little while back after Steve Jobs had passed away toy maker In Icons announced that they were going to produce a highly detailed figurine of the Apple CEO. The figurine was reportedly set to come with a holdable apple and a chair you could use to pose the Jobs figurine on as well as a backdrop that had the famous “One more thing” catch phrase on it.

Just about everyone in the tech industry knew that this wasn’t going to fly and that there was no doubt that Apple would let loose their lawyers to stop this desecration of their dear leader.

Well it turns out that we were right, Apple has indeed let In Turn know that this wasn’t going to happen by sending them a cease-and-desist letter that state that In Icons was breaking the law by creating a product that “resembles the technology company’s logo, person’s name, appearance, or likeness of its products.”

While Tandy Cheung, head of the Honk Kong based In Icons, disagreed with the interpretation of the law he dis agree that the company would stop the offer and any production of the Steve Jobs figurine out of respect for the feelings of the Jobs family.

via CNET

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On these pages alone, I’ve already written about some pretty weird Wii accessories. There was the horseback riding saddle patented by Nintendo, the Wiimote football shell, and the game that comes with its own exercise bike.

But this takes the biscuit. Actually, scratch that: this takes the whole damn biscuit factory.

Baby and Me is not the first infant-rearing title on the Wii, but it is the first game ever to ship with a baby doll peripheral. The idea is that little girls insert their Wii Remote in the back of the doll, and then listen to it “giggling, gurgling or crying through the Wii remote [speaker].” If you have a Balance Board, you can even “rock baby to sleep, burp baby, [and] teach baby to walk.”

At night, as the clocks strike one, the baby doll can often be found standing above its sleeping owner, a narrow glint of moonlight illuminating its ductile, factory-pressed face, and its empty eyes, symbolic of death itself, fixed on the little girl who never did have the time to give the attention it yearned …

Which leaves only one question: did I sleep six months running again and wake up April 1st? No. Somehow, I didn’t and this is real.

[1UP, via technabob]

Actually not a joke: the Wii Baby Doll peripheral is a post from: The Inquisitr

Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt’s quest for domination continues: they somehow managed to convince Mattel that they’re good people to immortalize in doll form. Heidi’s makes more sense, since she’s already cut to the chase and embraced a little plastic herself, but family-hating Spencer must have worked some kind of magic:

“Spencer revealed that he and Heidi have talked to Mattel stating, ‘We just talked to Mattel yesterday, and we are already working on our own Ken and Barbie.’”

Why would a kid want to play with this? Do kids know what The Hills is? Surely there aren’t enough collectors out there. . . right?

Image: WireImage

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