It did not take long for the Sidekick to move from cutting edge gadget phone for tech geeks to the rhinestone-studded status symbol of rappers and Paris Hilton. I'm still not sure how that happened. And these days, you can't watch prime time without seeing one of them whenever the script calls for a pampered teen to have an impossibly hip and distinctive cell phone.

But, as cool as all of that is, you know you've made it when they start producing kids' toy knockoffs:

We found these in the Lillian Vernon catalog. I love the inset of the girl receiving her very first a/s/l message.