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Fisher-Price is doing amazing things these days. I don’t know what happened and I can’t find any press about it. I got a Soothe’n’Snuggle for my 3 year old chi
by dr_dshiv 5y ago
Fisher-Price is doing amazing things these days. I don’t know what happened and I can’t find any press about it.
I got a Soothe’n’Snuggle for my 3 year old child and it is a full on sleep-inducing soft robot. It works. Very sophisticated for less than $40.
https://www.fisher-price.com/en-gb/product/soothe-n-snuggle-otter-fxc66 https://www.fisher-price.com/en-gb/product/soothe-n-snuggle-...
- OscarCunningham 5y agoLast month HN was angry at them because the music box now only pretends to be mechanical: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29048819 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29048819.
- nindalf 5y agoLast month a few people on a single HN thread were angry with them. Sorry, I find it a bit annoying when people make broad conclusions about a large group of people while ignoring sampling bias.
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- soheil 5y agoIt's already understood HN is not a single collective of ideas in just one prevailing direction.
- throw10920 5y agoIs this satire? I can't tell. (because it's quite clear to me that many many people on HN act like it's some kind of hivemind collective, and so it continually needs to be pointed out)
- makeitdouble 5y agoDon't both feelings go the same way ? Last month people were angry they released a lazier version of their toy, and today they're praised for their efforts on new toys. People like nice things.
- kristjansson 5y agoI mean, faking out a mechanical music box with electronics, and then driving the only physical part with a decapitated, silent music box is sort of outrageous.
- tomwojcik 5y agoI just bought it for my 14 months old and Im not sure which combination is the best but the results are not as good as yours. Are you using only breathing or the sound and light as well?
- t0mas88 5y agoSame age baby here, it worked well for mine when she was 6 to 10 months old. After that these kinds of tricks didn't really work anymore. A normal stuffed toy now has the same effect as a sound and "breathing" one, she holds it and goes to sleep and when she doesn't want to sleep the toy makes no difference.
- dnisbet 5y agoWish my kids were still young enough for the excuse to buy it [...for myself...]
- fy20 5y agoHow long does the battery last? I got a similar product Whisbear, and it needs to be charged every 2 days... We just took the electronics out and it seems to work just as well :D
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- DonHopkins 5y agoDialing could charge the batteries.
- ninkendo 5y agoI have one of those too for my son’s crib, two AA batteries will last you about a month or two (we use it each night.) Highly recommended! Funny thing is he’s 8 months old now and I’m not sure he actually likes having it play the music any more? He’s learned to turn it off by pressing his face against the stomach… not every time though. But when he doesn’t want it on, he very deliberately crawls over to it, presses his nose to it, and it turns it off. At least he can decide when he doesn’t want it on!
- entrep 5y agoI don't know how Fisher-Price manage to get the quality they do. No other toys in our house come close to being as unbreakable. The cash register I played with in the 80's is still working just as well as it did back then.
- alisonkisk 5y agoManaged. Past tense. The old stuff was quality.
- euroderf 5y agoA pretty neat trick considering they shipped their manufacturing overseas.
- authed 5y agoWhy do they need to load javascrit from 9 domains though...