Yes, after pulling herself out of her 1950's rut as a swimsuit model to become everything from a doctor, lawyer, computer scientist, astronaut and even the president of the United States, Barbie has now become a 3D-animated hologram that can serve up the weather on command. As first reported in Wired, The Hello Barbie Hologram debuted at the New York Toy Fair this week. And like the original Hello Barbie doll, her laser-beamed character combines motion-capture animation with peppy, Amazon Echo-like answers to your child's questions. Want to remind your child to brush their teeth? Hello Barbie Hologram does that, too.

Over her nearly 60-year life, Barbie has taken on many forms, but she's never been a hologram. Now, though, she is having a truly out-of-body experience, showing up in her first holographic figure, Hello Barbie Hologram. Barbie parent company Mattel unveiled the semi-translucent and chatty AI figure, which lives inside a pink plastic box, on Friday at the New York Toy Fair. SEE ALSO: Please let'Justice League' be as awesome as this RC Batmobile This is far from Barbie's first brush with AI. Mattel introduced Hello Barbie artificial intelligence inside a physical Barbie doll in 2015.

Mattel introduced its first Barbie doll way back in 1959, and she's found herself at the center of cultural controversy ever since. To her credit, she keeps adapting to the times. Today she is actually several Barbies, a gang of dolls more diverse and less infuriating in terms of body proportions. And she's enjoyed an enviable career path, with stints as an astronaut, a sk8er, the president and vice president of the United States, and a rapper, among other things. Now, at age 58, Barbie is a hologram.