Planning to have kids in the next ten years? Then start staking out rich neighborhoods for garage sales, because you’ll probably want to get them one of these–it’s called the Kid’s Walker, and it basically allows you to turn your precious angel into a walking, mechanized combat menace. Okay, that’s overstating things a bit; they’ll just look like one instead.
Japanese firm Sakakibara Kikai came out with the Kid’s Walker, basically allowing you to insert your child into a walking exo-frame, sort of like the one driven by Sigourney Weaver in Aliens, except in miniature. It doesn’t walk so much as shuffle on a pair of wheel-supported feet, and it’s powered by a small gasoline engine.
They aren’t available for sale right now, merely rental, but should they come out to market, and you know they will eventually, expect them to cost about $21,600, or roughly the price of a new car. Now you understand why I mentioned that whole thing about garage sales, because it’d take rich folks to buy something for their kid that costs a down payment on a nice house yet they’d outgrow in a couple years anyway.
Japanese firm Sakakibara Kikai came out with the Kid’s Walker, basically allowing you to insert your child into a walking exo-frame, sort of like the one driven by Sigourney Weaver in Aliens, except in miniature. It doesn’t walk so much as shuffle on a pair of wheel-supported feet, and it’s powered by a small gasoline engine.
They aren’t available for sale right now, merely rental, but should they come out to market, and you know they will eventually, expect them to cost about $21,600, or roughly the price of a new car. Now you understand why I mentioned that whole thing about garage sales, because it’d take rich folks to buy something for their kid that costs a down payment on a nice house yet they’d outgrow in a couple years anyway.
