Barbie's blinky dress

Goli Mohammadi of MAKE says:

A few years ago, we were happy to learn that Barbie’s 125th career (since her inception in 1959) was computer engineer. Not surprisingly, that career was decided entirely by online vote. Computer engineer Barbie came complete with pink glasses, laptop (displaying binary), and cellphone (and blue Bluetooth). Looks like those years of being a computer engineer have gotten her into soft circuits — this year an available accessory is the Digital Dress.

And looks like she finally took a cue from Leah Buechley’s LED Tank Top project that ran in the first issue of CRAFT, in 2006.

MAKE: Barbie’s Blinky Dress

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There’s also the light-up designs at http://www.enlighted.com/ which predate the LED tank top by about 6 years.
naufragio

TSA’s gonna give her a hard time wearing that.
- nixiebunny
  
  Tell me about it. I did that once in Detroit with my video coat. Hilarity ensued, but we made our flight.
http://profile.yahoo.com/FQTNYGPX3Z6AHLVBD5PNTZRFZQ Jeffrey

How to be a Star ….. Simpson
Bradley Robinson

I give it a week before the Real Doll version surfaces.
http://twitter.com/manooshi Manel

I want the Barbie light up dress for real human ladies. So dope!
Richard Kirk

Did you know Ms. Barbie was trying to prove the Riemann conjecture when she said “math is hard”?
Halloween_Jack

Maybe it’s just the shape and placement of the heart, but my mind immediately went to the naughty applications.
pjcamp

Apparently computer engineer doesn’t require math?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO0cvqT1tAE