Will Santa Be Laid Off? Kids Don’t Want “Toys” For Christmas

I remember when I was a child, I loved getting Nerf footballs and Lego’s for Christmas, but apparently kids today in our tech obsessed society can’t be bothered with anything that isn’t a Nintendo Wii, iPad or other cool gadget.

Duracell created a report of the “Top Requested Christmas Toys for 2010” and here it is:

The top 10 toys for Christmas 2010, according to the report are:
1.) iPhone 4 (14%)
2.) iPod touch (13%)
3.) iPad (12%)
4.) Kinect for Xbox (6%)
5.) Zhu Zhu Pet Hamsters / Kung Zhu Hamsters (5%)
6.) Flip Video Camera (4%)
7.) Toy Story 3 Jet Pack Buzz Lightyear (4%)
8.) PlayStation Move (4%)
9.) LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 Video Game (3%)
10) Barbie Video Girl (3%)

What’s more amazing is that 39 percent of children in all age categories surveyed wanted Apple products, while 17% of 5-8 yeaer old’s wanted something from Apple, 50% of 9-12 year olds wanted an Apple product and 13-16 years olds requested Apple products 66% of the time.

With 2,138 children polled the numbers should be a pretty accurate demographic for U.S. Children.

Even more surprising 3 out of 5 children polled (same number of parents) said they would buy whatever would “keep their youngsters quiet throughout the holidays.”

So basically Apple products are meant to shut up a generation…yup that sounds about right. [via SlashGear]