Hello Kitty mini-ATM for your penny counting kids

Alright, so it's not a real hole-in-the-wall, but just in case your eight year-old did need some training in how to operate one, here's the Hello Kitty ATM Bank. Its pink, it's got HK on it, and it looks vaguely like those machines you find in 7-Elevens: fortunately, it won't give your kids cash on credit. They've gotta put some pennies in first. It comes with a Hello Kitty cash card for withdrawals, which should help your child transition to the Hello Kitty Consolidated Bank account you've set up -- yes, they're real. No word on how much this monstrosity is, but you can probably guess which country they're available in.

[Via Crave]

[Chris @ Nov 6th 2007 10:34AM]

The real question is... will it Lend?!

[michas_pi @ Nov 6th 2007 11:32AM]

No, but the money can be used to Spend.

[Brian @ Nov 6th 2007 11:43AM]

Producing this thing is kinda hard to Defend.

[Toadlet @ Nov 6th 2007 11:48AM]

Yes, in yen.

[Matthew McGuirl @ Nov 6th 2007 12:12PM]

No more rhymes now, I mean it.

[Erik @ Nov 6th 2007 12:30PM]

Anybody want a peanut?

[dataminer49er @ Nov 6th 2007 10:34AM]

From the First National Bank of Hello Kitty.

[dxchase @ Nov 6th 2007 10:57AM]

The screen doesn't appear to be touch sensitive. How backwards!

[Spray @ Nov 6th 2007 11:08AM]

I for one welcome the rise of our bowtie-laden feline overlords.

[strider_mt2k @ Nov 6th 2007 11:17AM]

Hello Kitty

Goodbye common sense

[Faisal @ Nov 6th 2007 12:10PM]

Cents?

[Ryan @ Nov 6th 2007 12:30PM]

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!

[ark_v2 @ Nov 6th 2007 12:50PM]

I did that since I was 7 XD. Lazy parents who only drive but don't want to get off the car.

[RandomCake @ Nov 6th 2007 12:57PM]

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?

[Ryan @ Nov 6th 2007 2:05PM]

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.

[Jesse @ Nov 6th 2007 6:28PM]

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 ^_^

[JJ @ Nov 6th 2007 6:51PM]

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.