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Lifeguard18
September 21st, 2010, 07:59 PM
Who remembers the Yak Bak? Well I do :D the yak bak was a toy from 1996 where you would talk into a device and it would repeat what you say, and you could add effects to it. Luckily, I still have mine from when I was a kid and im considering getting new batteries, bring it to school, and possibly make them popular again like the tamagotchis did back in 2005.

But what does this have to do with technology? An iphone/ipod touch app called iyakbak. Its a yak bak on you idevice that acts like a real yak bak. Relive your childhood :) hopefully this comes to the android market someday cause I will download that in a snap.

Go onto youtube and type iyakbak and see some of the videos that come up, and then go to the app store and download it and give it a try.

Just imagine this being popular again...

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iyakbak/id297543793?mt=8

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scuba steve
September 21st, 2010, 08:07 PM
I never had a "Yak bak" i had a talk boy back in the day, even the kid from Home Alone had one :rolleyes:
http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1366&bih=588&q=talk+boy&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
Lifeguard18
September 21st, 2010, 08:09 PM
I never had a "Yak bak" i had a talk boy back in the day, even the kid from Home Alone had one :rolleyes:
http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1366&bih=588&q=talk+boy&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

i never had one of those before
scuba steve
September 21st, 2010, 08:11 PM
Your's looks so much more futuristic compared to my talk boy, call yourself a 90's child :P
Lifeguard18
September 21st, 2010, 08:24 PM
Your's looks so much more futuristic compared to my talk boy, call yourself a 90's child :P

Lol. That's not the original one but it is a model from 1996. The original which I use to have had two buttons: speak and play. I have another model from 1996 which my friend gave to me called Yak Bakwards. Idk what happened to my original one. I played with those for years. Haha. Im definitely getting new batteries. Lol.

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Jess
September 22nd, 2010, 10:27 AM
Never had it, but I think I recognize it
Blahages
September 22nd, 2010, 11:00 PM
I had both a Yak Bak and a Talk Boy. :P
scuba steve
September 23rd, 2010, 04:41 PM
I had both a Yak Bak and a Talk Boy. :P

Strikes it right down the middle... I like this guy :P
Lifeguard18
October 9th, 2010, 11:11 PM
BOP IT AND TAMAGOTCHIS ARE BACK ON THE MARKET!!!!!!!! lol
scuba steve
October 10th, 2010, 10:04 AM
The new Bop it looks awesome!
Scarface
October 10th, 2010, 10:09 AM
I never had a "Yak bak" i had a talk boy back in the day, even the kid from Home Alone had one :rolleyes:
http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1366&bih=588&q=talk+boy&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Dude omg, had this, it came with the tape of the movie on audio. It was so fun. You could talk into it and it could speed up or make your voice sound in slow motion. It was really neat. Though the batteries were really nasty on it. My mom had a "Yak Bak" because she liked to talk into and hear her own voice when she would get drunk. Like someone would actually talk to her.