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Watch as the RingBo Robot Atrophies the Muscles of Our Future Generations
Posted by Adam Frucci at 7:15 AM on May 15, 2008
We showed you the little lazy-kid-moving RingBo yesterday, and now we have a ludicrous video of it in action. Watch! As an adorable Korean toddler spins aimlessly in circles in a variety of outfits. Listen! To some of the most ridiculous music to be produced since the 1980s. Cringe! At the thought of parents dropping US$140 to allow their 3-year-olds to give up on walking at such a young age. You're looking at the future, friends. The lazy, lazy future. [Koreannovation]
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Steve
Posted May 15, 2008 12:20 PM
"Listen! To some of the most ridiculous music to be produced since the 1980s."
I'm not proud to admit any of this but that music WAS produced in the 80's.
I can't remember who was accountable for it or its name but I definitely remember hearing it way back when yellow was the new black.
FritzLaurel
Posted 8:06 AM 15/5/08
I think you get a free bowl of soup when you buy that CD.
FritzLaurel
Gann
Posted 7:57 AM 15/5/08
At least it might get the kids outdoors.
Gann
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 7:56 AM 15/5/08
@strider_mt2k: There is no wrong post for that video.
92BuickLeSabre
strider_mt2k
Posted 7:53 AM 15/5/08
@strider_mt2k: Wrong post dammit...
strider_mt2k
strider_mt2k
Posted 7:53 AM 15/5/08
Mr. body massage machine...GO!
aaaaaaa what the hell?
+ Watch video
strider_mt2k
wolfenstein-3d
Posted 7:51 AM 15/5/08
I love asian people! I wanna move across the big lake so i can get all these sweet gadgets as soon as they come out!
wolfenstein-3d
strider_mt2k
Posted 7:48 AM 15/5/08
Still better than the Face of Bo bot.
There is another!
strider_mt2k
jimmyJAKE!
Posted 7:42 AM 15/5/08
@carmen89: I'm half japanese I just wanna fit in to my asian side! .. prob why i like gizmodo...
shit now i sound like a racist.
jimmyJAKE!
berribrand
Posted 7:40 AM 15/5/08
"RingBo Robot Atrophies the Muscles of Our Future Generations"
You mean... like the automobile? At least with public transit you get to walk for a decent amount of time and distance.
berribrand
Captain Angry
Posted 7:40 AM 15/5/08
True story: My frind found a cane on the side of the road and one day decided to see how it felt to walk with it (after getting really into house). His neighbors, many of which needed canes for real, saw him around his apartment that day, and rather than tell them what he was doing, he made up a knee condition that 'acted up' in the winter. All winter long, whenever he would walk in, out or about his apartment he would use the cane, waiting for spring when he could stop using it again.
Spring rolled around and now he has one weak leg and has trouble walking long distances. Plus, since he was using the cane incorrectly a la House, he can't even use the cane normally to help the situation.
Muscles Atrophie is no joke. Not unless it happens to your friends anyway.
Captain Angry
shamoononon
Posted 7:39 AM 15/5/08
I know this stupid thing will make me even scrawnier. Doesn't matter what I buy my daughter or what she rides, I ALWAYS end up having to carry it home... seems to be mostly up hill too.
shamoononon
carmen89
Posted 7:38 AM 15/5/08
@jimmyJAKE!: that came out...pretty bad
carmen89
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 7:38 AM 15/5/08
@GeekyNerdGuy: Arturo would disagree.
92BuickLeSabre
weshirecat
Posted 7:37 AM 15/5/08
Wow!! a powerwheels with more difficult steering!! Now all it needs is an apple logo, and ...to be... put in a blender!!
weshirecat
jimmyJAKE!
Posted 7:35 AM 15/5/08
that might of came out wrong.. hm :-x
jimmyJAKE!
jimmyJAKE!
Posted 7:34 AM 15/5/08
I just want the asian kid and whatever so amazing disco song is playing in the background
jimmyJAKE!
Set to evil
Posted 7:34 AM 15/5/08
As a parent, I can say kids won't get too fat on this as it only runs for an hour. The child will spend the 6 hours waiting for it to charge, kicking and screaming for it!
Set to evil
GeekyNerdGuy
Posted 7:33 AM 15/5/08
You know, there's all this talk about how this is going to make kids lazy, but it could be quite helpful for all the flipper babies that can't walk anyway.
Nobody ever cashes in on the flipper-baby market.
GeekyNerdGuy
ripfire4
Posted 7:29 AM 15/5/08
@Kaiser-Machead: It's a cook book! A COOK BOOK!
ripfire4
deepee
Posted 7:29 AM 15/5/08
I want this song. Real bad.
deepee
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 7:27 AM 15/5/08
@GeekyNerdGuy: Yes, I personally was impressed to learn that you can change into new clothes and still ride the RingBo!
92BuickLeSabre
GeekyNerdGuy
Posted 7:25 AM 15/5/08
Oh, and wait for the costume change at the end. Nothing like a white sweater vest over a green-plaid pearl snap cowboy shirt on a small Asian boy.
GeekyNerdGuy
carmen89
Posted 7:25 AM 15/5/08
@GeekyNerdGuy: OH POOP! ...i still won't break it, i just don't think I could. but than again as soon as my fat ass sits down on it and the joysticks shoot straight in the air and the thing starts crying, i'll know it wasn't meant to be.
carmen89
ripfire4
Posted 7:25 AM 15/5/08
Hmm. Now what if you add the Quake platform to the seat...
ripfire4
GeekyNerdGuy
Posted 7:24 AM 15/5/08
carmen89: I'm not math major, but last time I checked 30kg was only 67.2 lbs.
But props on the attention-whoring by getting your weight out there.
GeekyNerdGuy
Kaiser-Machead
Posted 7:21 AM 15/5/08
When the ravenous aliens come to rectify our constant spamming of their home system, they'll be thrilled that we prepared a few generations' worth of human veal.
Kaiser-Machead
carmen89
Posted 7:21 AM 15/5/08
He was adorable.
Honestly I'm 5'3" and 92lbs....I can so ride this thing and not break it. I am buying one!
carmen89
Git Em SteveDave
Posted 7:20 AM 15/5/08
But as they get to fat, it won't move, so then they'll lose weight to be able to ride it again. The circle has no beginning or end.
Git Em SteveDave
GeekyNerdGuy
Posted 7:20 AM 15/5/08
Dude, that kid looks exactly like a tiny version of this pothead that works in our IT department -- same shirt, same haircut, same everything.
And I would totally buy one if they can up that 30kg weight limit and reduce the charging time.
GeekyNerdGuy
Larz2112
Posted 8:35 AM 15/5/08
Did they use the Beamz Laser Music System to create the soundtrack for this demo video?
Larz2112
qbrad
Posted 8:33 AM 15/5/08
@strider_mt2k: Hah!! I'm wearing my Porkchop sandwiches shirt today!!
qbrad
WMyers
Posted 10:17 AM 15/5/08
So this is what you get when you slap a new body and LEDs on a Power Wheels tank.
WMyers
p3p3
Posted 12:19 PM 15/5/08
That italo tune is from the late 80's.
p3p3
jiggaman2
Posted 11:16 PM 15/5/08
Powerwheels were cool because they were (at least mine was) a bigfoot monster truck. This is a puny ass alien robot-mobile... weak. Nonetheless... its cool as sin, and any young toddler would love something like this. But no, I wouldn't get it for my child. He/she will have a big red and yellow playskool yabbadabba doo car..or perhaps a he-man tricycle.
jiggaman2