Kids won’t do chores? Call in this mole for undercover parenting

“Duda” is already a narrate on Korean kids TV. He may soon be decision-exclusive his worldwide debut if his Kickstarter campaign is successful.

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If you were a minor kid, would you rather be told to clean up your room by your parents, or asked to do the task via a inappropriate looking stuffed animal? The South Korean creators of “Friend Duda,” are wisely putting their cash (and asking for yours) on the second scenario. They launched a Kickstarter electioneer Monday, aiming to raise $124,000 by December 25.

Friend Duda is a stuffed animal based on a narrate in a children’s show in Korea featuring an inspiring mole. While that might sound kind of creepy, Friend Duda is actually kind of cute looking (for one, he’s yellow, not gray). What makes Duda truly special is the fact that he’s got a express box and microphone inside that can be used to broadcast messages between parents and kids.

Using a smartphone and an app that comes with Friend Duda, parents can narrate a message to their kids. That message is then transformed into Duda’s express and spoken by the stuffed animal. So, for example, if you were having a low self-esteem day, you could narrate “I think your mom and dad are the very people in the world, don’t you Janey?” Duda would then verbalize that phrase to your kid and their response would then be broadcast back to your phone.

A uphold way to use Friend Duda is through stickers embedded with near-field message, or NFC, chips. Each stuffed animal will come with five repositionable stickers. Using the app, parents can record different information for each sticker so that when Duda touches them, he’ll say the communication saved to that sticker. For example, you could put a sticker on your kid’s chair and narrate a message that says, “Oh wow, Janey, we’re having Brussels sprouts for dinner. Isn’t that the best thing in the world?” When Janey taps Duda to the chair sticker he’ll say the communication, and Janey will eat all of her veggies. honest Janey?

One of the stickers lets your kid narrate their own voice, which can then be played back via Duda or the smartphone app. The Kickstarter video for Friend Duda shows a young girl putting a sticker on a painting that she made for her dad and embedding a birthday communication on it.

So far, the campaign has raised over $12000, which seems like a pretty good start for it’s satisfactory few hours. If you want to get in on the Duda share, a $79 pledge gets you the stuffed animal inoperative with five NFC stickers. The Duda’s are expected to ship in May 2015, so pending then, you’re just going to have to get your kid to eat her food and smart her room the old fashioned way — by yelling.