I Always Do What Teddy Says
I dare say there's other stories on the same theme, but this is the one I know.
Toys like this are several levels more unwise than just plonking the kids down in front of the tellybox. More so than letting tablets be their teachers. But it's perfectly fine because we watched cartoons when we were kids and that never did us any harm because it's completely comparable, right...? There doesn't seem to be much to balance it all out any more.
Just to drag the mini-rant back to relevance to the article - these things need to be really really trustworthy and right now none of them are even close.