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29 new, starting at $12.99
Now girls with a passion for fashion can see who they can be with Digi Makeover. A cool touchpad console with a digital camera connects to the TV so girls can project their own image onto the screen for a special on-screen makeover. Use the touchpad and stylus to change hairstyles, makeup and even accessories. Plus, Digi Makeover has a photo booth mode so girls can show off their latest creations.
Interactive touch pad and digital camera plugs directly into your TV. Features tons of cool effects for makeup, hair, clothes and accessories. Includes over 50 hairstyles and colors. Add makeup and jewelry for new looks. Save up to five new looks. Requires 4 "AA" batteries, not included.
With an interactive touchpad and built-in digital camera, the Radica Digi Makeover connects to the TV so girls can project their image for an on-screen makeover. Recommended for children ages six and up, even older sisters will want to get a hand on this fun gadget. Best of all, girls can go fashion crazy without doing anything drastic.
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
You don't have to be a "girly girl" to have fun and look fabulous
with the Digi Makeover. With the easy-to-use touchpad and stylus,
girls can digitally dress their image in over 50 built-in
hairstyles and colors, as well as makeup effects, clothes,
jewelry and accessories. Simply take a picture with the built-in
camera, upload it to the machine, and connect the console to the
TV, and girls are ready to start playing with their hair and
makeup style. She'll love exploring an infinite combination of
fashion styles while parents will be happy to avoid the messes of
makeup and all the costs of one-time, glamorous outfits.
Instant Gratification
The photo booth mode allows girls to makeover a friend and to
show off their latest creations. The Digi Makeover saves up to
five new looks, letting girls keep their best shots for instant
recall -- or even fashion face-offs with friends on the TV. The
touchpad console requires four "AA" batteries, sold separately.
 Easy-to-use touchpad and stylus lets girls digitally dress their in image in different hairstyles and colors. |
horrible, horrible toyReviewed by L. Parpart, 2009-12-03
My 7 yr-old daughter received this at a workplace Christmas party. Nice gesture, horrible, horrible product. The camera is junk (all the extra lighting in the world will not produce a good photo), the graphics are cheesy (putting lipstick on the image just means that you stick a flat blob of muddy pink on top of the model's lips, like a sticker on top of a photograph), and on the model we received, the crucial 'Next' button didn't work at all, which meant that you could only apply lipstick/eye colour, etc. OR do the model's hair, not both. Save your money and avoid this one.
pretty coolReviewed by zoe non ya business, 2009-11-12
this is a pretty fun game and i just got it becase it was so cheap!!!!! i am a 9 year old girl and i think the age group is about 8-12 or 13 it is very much fun
Great Gift IdeaReviewed by M. Shaw, 2009-01-25
I bought it for the grandchild of one of our friends. They asked for it by name, so I assume that another parent had recommended. I have not heard any complaints so far. I imagine it is working well for them.
digi makeoverReviewed by Jennifer Beer, 2008-12-29
We got this for our 9 yr old daughter for Christmas. Our expectations were pretty low. Just a silly toy for taking pictures of mom, dad, little brothers and friends and dressing them up in make up and radical hairstyles for a laugh. If you're looking for a makeover game that creates a realistic makeover, then this is not the game for you. It's also not the kind of game that's played with daily. But fun for a party of young girls, or evening with the fam. As others said, camera requires very good lighting to work well, makeup is difficult to apply,instructions are poorly written.
Wish I could give it ZERO STARS...Reviewed by R. Johns, 2008-12-25
Perhaps I'm a little bias because I, myself, have been a computer
programmer for over 25 years and design software that other people
must use. Maybe I was just expecting too much from this Digi
Makeover toy? I'm not sure. All I can say for sure is this: when I
see a digital toy that is as bad as Digi Makeover is, it really
makes me stop and wonder about the horrifically lame team of
computer programmers that one would have to assemble in order for
this product to come to life in such a pathetic way. In my view,
you almost have to go out of your way to program software as bad as
that which you find in Digi Makeover.
As I sit at my desk, I wonder "why did this product make it past
the developers? How could something this unpleasant to play with
get past a focus/test group? Were the people in the marketing
department on vacation? Or were they in the parking lot running a
meth lab when this game was designed and brought to market?". These
are questions I wonder about now that my daughter has opened her
Digi Makeover Christmas gift and subsequently lost interest in it
in record time.
But I digress. Allow me to back up a bit...
While looking around for possible Xmas presents this year, I ran
across Digi Makeover. What a fabulous idea: take a snap shot of
yourself, then use the digital interface to add make-up. What
little girl wouldn't go nuts over this? I envisioned this being the
hit of Christmas this year, so naturally I ordered one straight
away. It arrived and the packing looked first rate. When my
daughter opened it, she was very excited and out of all her
presents, this was the one she wanted to try first.
We rounded up the 4 AA batteries required and attached it to the AV
port of our Sony TV. While the girls played around, I read through
the manual. Now.. when I bought this gift, it looked like you could
snap a picture of yourself, then start drawing on your face and/or
you could add make-up, etc. I thought it would be great fun for
everyone. I quickly found out I was mistaken. As mentioned, I have
developed software for a number of years, so I guess I projected
how I would have setup the user interface on this product.
Naturally, when you think "digital makeover", you picture someone
using a digital pen to add lipstick and eye liner, etc. Maybe draw
a hat or eye patch or something. Right? Wrong. The user interface
on this product is absolutely horrible. There is no nice way to say
it: it's a joke. You are limited to using a cryptic series of
buttons and canned images - none of which allow any sort of
artistic or fluid design to take place. Additionally, the camera
quality of the unit is awful. The stock images (of other people)
are good quality. However, when you take a picture of yourself, it
comes out dark and grainy. Whatever camera they stuck in this
thing, the resolution is a joke.
The first thing you want to do with this game is take a snap shot
of yourself and draw lipstick on or something like that - but you
can't. You can select from a menu of features, but they leave a lot
to be desired. You are continually forced to use a strange set of
confusing controls to make items larger or smaller. Even my
girlfriend couldn't really enjoy or figure it out. I tried it, but
was very disappointed in how limited the interface and
functionality of the unit was. Our 8 year old daughter basically
gave up and didn't even want to attempt to use the bizarre controls
which Digi Makeover employs. I think I would have had more luck
teaching her to use AutoCAD.
All in all, this product falls flat on its face. I really have to
wonder if anyone at the company ever tried to use this thing and/or
took it home to their kids. Let me put it another way... if I was
running the team of programmers who produced the code and GUI for
Digi Makeover, I would have likely fired the entire development
team and started taking new resumes shortly after seeing the end
result. At the least, I would have shot the head programmer in the
neck and let that be a warning to the rest of the developers:
"don't come back a 2nd time with a product this bad". But hey,
that's just me... my management style may differ somewhat from the
folks at Girl Tech, who knows.
Let me just sum it up like this: SAVE YOUR MONEY - because this is
one digital toy that really misses the mark in a major way. Digi
Makeover? That's actually a good title, because if there is one
thing this toy really needs, it's a digital makeover!
