Five-foot animated Frankenstein's monster

By at 7:10 am Friday, Aug 10

Hammacher Schlemmer's $200 animated Frankenstein's Monster stands five feet tall and writhes and plays music when you walk past it, a Hallowe'en version of the giant, scary animated Santas. The fact that you can buy this much plastic and human labor for two hundred bucks is a tribute to the awesome might of the WTO and the Chinese labor force -- now that all trade barriers have been dropped and labor rates seek out the lowest level on the planet, we are slowly exploring the entire problem-space of "3D objects made from plastic that Americans will pay for." Link (via Gizmodo)

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