Watch Owl: TeleBrands’ Bird Fetish Continues with a Mechanical Guardian Raptor

Maybe someone at the infomercial marketing company TeleBrands just has a fetish for mechanical birds…or maybe something far more ominous is afoot. First they created Perfect Polly, an animatronic parakeet that is supposed to be better than the real thing because it doesn’t eat and poop. Then they unleashed Chatty Patty, a fake parrot that will repeat exactly what you tell it in a more reliable manner than the actual bird ever would.

Now TeleBrands offers the Watch Owl, so that every sweet old lady can effortlessly instill dread and terror into any critter who dares to nibble in her vegetable garden.

Watch Owl signals the next phase in TeleBrands’ ongoing effort to get society acclimated to various forms of artificial life. (Who ever would have expected A.J. Khubani to make the path straight for Eldon Tyrell!) Perfect Polly and Chatty Patty might be dismissed as fun and frivolous novelties. Watch Owl, on the other hand, has menace and threat built right into the product.

The head on this stylized, darkly-colored depiction of a horned owl moves with the swiftness and resolve of a gun turret. And the product’s logo only reinforces the air of intimidation:

If Skynet ever needed an owl model of terminator cyborg, WatchOwl would be the prototype.

Watch Owl, Perfect Polly, and Chatty Patty are the triumvirate of fake fowls ushering in our post-human future and heralding the rise of a panopticon surveillance state.

Call now and you can get a free upgrade to the video monitoring Watch Owl which transmits directly into an NSA database!
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