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Why the Teletubbies Sun-Baby Makes Infants Cry
Why does the Teletubbies sun-baby make eleven-month-olds cry — and adults feel something close to revulsion? This episode unpacks the radical design philosophy behind the 1997 BBC phenomenon. Created using infant gaze-tracking data, the show was the first ever built for pre-verbal viewers, with only four to five minutes of narrative per episode and a baby-faced sun as its governing deity. We explore the cognitive collision of scale distortion, the uncanny valley effect in simplified faces, and why a world with no visible adults can feel unsettling. Plus: how speech therapists helped design…
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