“Here’s an iOpening way to potty train a toddler,” Christina Boyle and Corky Siemaszko report for The New York Daily News. “It’s called the iPotty — a standard plastic kid’s training toilet with an iPad-ready stand so the little darlings can answer nature’s call while their eyes are glued to a screen.”
“It goes on sale in March for $39.99 on Amazon.com,” Boyle and Siemaszko report. “‘We’ve gotten great feedback from parents who think it’d be great for training,’ said Camilo Gallardo of CTA Digital, whose whizz-mo is making headway at the international gadget show in Las Vegas.”
Boyle and Siemaszko report, “But Dr. Ron Marino, head of pediatrics at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, L.I., is not convinced the device will help kids learn how to pee on the pot. ‘Children need to learn to focus on what they’re doing and recognize the sensations of their body, rather than multitasking and being entertained,’ said Marino.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Dr. Ron is an iParty pooper.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
Start ’em young.
The doctor is right! Potty training involves the use of several body functions such as hand eye co-ordination for boys (no pun intended) Muscle control for both boys and girls and recognizing when all is said and done after squeezing every ounce of pee or poo one can.
Individuals who are trained as per the above gadget can look forward to being unable to properly exercise their bodily functions if not in entertainment mode, which does not help in preventing bed wetting. but worse, they might just let go inadvertently whilst in a cinema or watching TV because that is what they are used to. Finally in old age, they will need grown up diapers because their muscles will be weak for not having been exercised as they should.
Any thoughts anyone?
Those parents better watch that touch screen surface for any Zune color brown. Better have wipes close at hand!
Surprisingly Crabapple, you make some sense. It brings to mind those like my SO, who “need” to have the water running at times to urinate. Or suddenly have to urinate because they hear running water.
Lets hope M$ doesn’t makes a SurfacePotty – there sits little Tommy, straining away, purple veins standing out on his neck, watching his cartoon, when all of a sudden – BSOD!!
M$ will have to scrap the BSOD and instead flash up a picture of Baldylocks Ballmer – that should be enough to scare the crap out of the little Tommy and at least get some closure….
Imagine when these kids become adults and you are waiting for a toilet. They may be on that damn thing ( toilet ) for hours playing games like Halo or some other social or texting event.
This idea stinks.
Yeah, they might be playing something that makes them pucker. That would be counter-productive.
I remember little card board targets for my son to aim at.
Thus is just an instance of bringing technology to the turd world.
Shoulda called it the iPood
so……….are people really going to trust a not only very young child with an iPad near a potty, but one that hasn’t yet been potty trained? bad idea……….
Does it hold 190 lbs?
You can flip it and wear it as a hat
I believe they refer to that as heads up display.
Vegas, your’s is the only appropriate response to this Dumb idea…. lol
And don’t forget shoppers CTA Digital has all those wonderful devices for your bodily needs, the iPad, iPad mini and iPad maxi for those time special times of the month, the iMoan for that special time of year and for that analyst in the family, the iRetain and the iScoop.
it plays the entire soundtrack to the musical Urinetown.
“Boyle and Siemaszko report, “But Dr. Ron Marino, head of pediatrics at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, L.I., is not convinced the device will help kids learn how to pee on the pot. ‘Children need to learn to focus on what they’re doing and recognize the sensations of their body, rather than multitasking and being entertained,’ said Marino.”
100% correct. iPad distraction and a ridiculous invention.
Another way to get crap onto your iPad besides the App Store and Jailbreaking