Hello Kitty mini-ATM for your penny counting kids
By Conrad Quilty-Harper 
posted Nov 6th 2007 10:27AM
posted Nov 6th 2007 10:27AM
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posted Nov 6th 2007 10:27AM
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The real question is... will it Lend?!
No, but the money can be used to Spend.
Producing this thing is kinda hard to Defend.
Yes, in yen.
No more rhymes now, I mean it.
Anybody want a peanut?
From the First National Bank of Hello Kitty.
The screen doesn't appear to be touch sensitive. How backwards!
I for one welcome the rise of our bowtie-laden feline overlords.
Hello Kitty
Goodbye common sense
Cents?
This is horrible that they are getting 8 yr. olds used to withdrawing cash from an ATM! they need to make it so that you can only deposit money - teach tem how to save, instead of spend!
I did that since I was 7 XD. Lazy parents who only drive but don't want to get off the car.
Well, if it's the same as existing ATM savings machines, it does only allow you to deposit through the ATM interface! Withdrawals are done by opening the thing up, and aren't at all like an ATM.. They're really not all that ATM like are they?
Regardless of how it works, it still teaches them at a very young age the principles of a real ATM. Why make an ATM for a kid? Make a device that teaches them how to save money, instead of withdrawing it so they can spend it. Make a Hello Kitty "piggy" (or kitty) bank. That is part of the reason why bankruptcy and foreclosure rates are so high right now - people don't save money. They spend what they have and live paycheck to paycheck.
Hey, I remember having a similar device when I was young. I live in the Netherlands and the Postbank had the same kind of thing for kids, you could put in your pin-card and open it up by entering a code, to get the moneyz ^_^
my cousin has one of these things, it'll cost ya bout $250HK or around $35--an awesome way to blow some of that cash that you're supposed to be saving. It even sucks in the money for you.