Solid Alliance's Kore Ja Nai makes you cry

We all know that Solid Alliance occasionally strays into non compos mentis, but check this one, childrens. The Kore Ja Nai sure looks like a wooden toy robot, right? But that name translates roughly into "this is not it" and is purposely meant to invoke painful feelings from childhood. You know, like the time you opened that present full of yule and hopes of Atari only to find a lameazz Slinky inside. As such, the Kore Ja Nai won't clean your floor or rid the planet of the human scourge, oh no, this ¥7,329 / $64 non-robot is merely a USB stick capable of transporting a paltry 256MBs of say, your Excel spreadsheets. And it's made from plastic! Thanks Solid A, all that whiskey therapy and time spent in dangerous relationships just to bury those memories, wasted.

[Via Impress]

[tchiseen @ Dec 7th 2006 9:01AM]

is this for real? sometimes i have trouble sorting out engs sarcasm... maybe this thing really is meant to make you miserable... but what good would that do?

[Thomas Ricker @ Dec 7th 2006 9:02AM]

It is for real. No embellishing... this time. Strangest thing we've seen for awhile.

Thomas

[Mevolution @ Dec 7th 2006 9:07AM]

Solid Alliance's board meetings should make a fantastic reality show

[jav @ Dec 7th 2006 9:19AM]

ohhh.... Kore Ja Nai > Wii > PS3
i want one for xmas

[telepheedian @ Dec 7th 2006 9:30AM]

I got a FREE 512 mb usb stick from a TRADE SHOW, with falling memory prices, this might as well be free.

[Samuel McConnell @ Dec 7th 2006 9:31AM]

The picture, though, says "Kore ja nai robo", which to me says "This is not a robot!"

[Reilly @ Dec 8th 2006 12:07AM]

Samuel McConnell: nah, it's just like the article says - "This is not it robot". "This is not a robot" would be "kore wa robotto ja nai". Slight difference in word order.

[Timmy @ Dec 7th 2006 11:11AM]

Does solid alliance have a North American distributor?

[JRA219psu @ Dec 7th 2006 12:21PM]

what the f#%>
are you serious?
strange

[SubGenius @ Dec 7th 2006 12:55PM]

I'm going to get one of these for my nephew.
I can't stand the little brat!
I should put it inside a Wii bow to add to the pain.

[Johan Strandberg @ Dec 7th 2006 1:33PM]

I didn't realize Magritte did USB sticks.

[Manuel @ Dec 7th 2006 5:19PM]

dont care wtf with the name of this .... this sucks

[Andy @ Dec 7th 2006 7:28PM]

HAHAHAHA

This reminds me when I was a kid, I asked for one of the transformers (which still are cool, in their original, high-quality toy incarnations) named Tantrum, you know, it and other four ones formed the biggest robot in the 2nd gen transformers list (the only super robot made out of 5 full-sized ones -- the others were 1 main full-sized and 4 small ones).

What did I get instead? Panthro, from the Thundercats.

[Adamu @ Dec 7th 2006 10:19PM]

There's a non-USB edition of the "that's not what I wanted" robot. I bought one for my sister during a trip to Japan. It's a great idea and a lot cheaper than $64.

[Pal @ Dec 8th 2006 5:38AM]

Samuel: Reilly is correct.

In any case, an actual wooden robot has been available for some time, I can't believe that they make this now. Each one of the wooden robots are hand painted by the creator, spreading the word that you can't always get what you hoped for, and get used to it.

What a harsh - and funny in only retrospect to the child's point of view - toy.

[GTW @ Dec 8th 2006 6:31AM]

We know you guys don't get much scoop when it comes to robotics but putting this under this category misleading! Jeez! Shame on everyone who doesn't realise this! :P

[GTW @ Dec 8th 2006 6:33AM]

sorry... is* misleading

[cuby @ Dec 8th 2006 12:50PM]

i'm still quite confused about exactly what this is ... so, it's supposed to get you all excited that it's something all cool, but it turns out to be a lame usb drive? i'm lost ...