Life in plastic is fantastic, but it doesn't have to be fantasy. Watching the Barbie movie this weekend (shout out to my friend Eleanor for coordinating outfits) I was genuinely blown away by the quality of what could easily have been a two-hour-long advert for a toy line. It's subversive and sad and sweet all at once and you need to go and see it.
Barbie (and Ken, but who cares?) lives in a magical world that seems perfect and far more advanced than our real world, but it's not actually that far away. Here are 3 bits of Barbie tech that are almost real.
