Various materials
Hari: 9 13/16 x 3 3/16
x 1 5/8" (25 x 8 x 4 cm); Parker:
6 1/8 x 5 3/16 x 1 5/8" (15.5 x 13.2
x 4 cm
Onkar Kular conceived the characters
Hari and Parker for The Science of
Spying, a 2007 exhibition at the Science
Museum, London. He imagined an
alternate reality in which children are
recruited to spy for the government,
tutored and helped along by Hari
(a rabbit) and Parker (a bear), and he
then concocted a whole line of children’s products—from candy and music to
books and wallpaper—featuring the
characters. Hari has a microphone
and intercepting text-messaging ears,
and Parker’s nose hides a camera,
while his paw is a fingerprint scanner.
The toys aid children in “[committing]
subtle acts of domestic surveillance,”
explains the designer.
