Outside in. Bring these songbirds, designed by Dr. Tsutomu Suzuki for Takara, into your home. They're very lifelike, in both appearance and sound. We've heard these motion-activated birds can be purchased at Design Within Reach and BDDW, at $18 each.
The birds are modeled after hand-sculpted models by Dr. Tsutomu Suzuki of the University of Tokyo. The birds' authentic songs come from real recordings from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, whose mission is to conserve the earth's biodiversity through research, education and science-based focus on birds.
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Oh no!!! My parents used to have a little bird like this. It was a little goldfinch, and while it was only supposed to chirp when you touched it, it was really sensitive. It would chirp when you walked near it or when you looked at it funny. When I was in high school (more than 10 years ago), I hoped to make a movie based on the little goldfinch. A spoof of Hitchcock's "the Birds," I had a strong vision of ominous music, crowds of people running away in fear, and then zooming in on a large black and white shadow, and then panning to the source of the shadow: the little plastic bird, going, "Chirp, chirp. Chirp, chirp."
(And the concept got even cheesier. On the soundtrack I was going to include "I Ran" by Flock of Seagulls.")
Ahh, unrealized dreams... Maybe someday...
This looks like something you'd find at Walgreens.
The staff at Design Within Reach hates these, and for good reason.
They're going to wind up in Christmas Tree Shops and Dollar Stores everywhere before the summer's out.
These have been around for years and you can find them cheaper than through DWR. I was skeptical but now I have a FLOCK of them. I give them as gifts. My grandmother talks to hers (and she is completely sane). They are weird and wonderful but sadly not green. But neither is my yogurt cup.
Creepy!