i'm sorry to the rest of the silly commenters here, but i work at a toy store, and this idea sounds like seven times more efficient than the lame training wheels that i used as a kid. you could stop and stay stopped, but this just increases stability , so the wheel is more like riding a bike. it'll let them progress to not using it at all faster, and the wheel itself looks nice. i know a lot of parents who would be willing to buy this thing. ya'll are just too pessimistic.
Training wheels, when set properly, give children a chance to properly learn to ride a bike. This device does the balancing for them and the occasional scraped knee is just part of childhood. Honestly, we are sterilizing childhood way too much.
Training wheels are both a physical and psychological crutch. For some kids, it's unnerving to suddenly have it removed. This device can act as a crutch that can be tuned physically, but still have a full psychological effect.
If gradually lowered, at the final stages, the wheel becomes a placebo.
Some kids just have a lower self-esteem - this could be a great morale booster and help them get into activities that other kids are doing.
Or it could lower their self esteem knowing that they needed a $100 piece of technology to do what other people did with little $10 wheels.
Either way it's a crutch, but when you take the training wheels away from the kid, and they ride the bike without them for the first time, they know they've accomplished something. If you gradually change the settings on this they might not even notice, there's no accomplishment in learning to ride a bike.
ok, so, imagine this... all the other lil kids in the neighborhood are learning how to ride a bike, and they have these lame training wheels. you get this $100 piece of technology and you ride in with no training wheels... all the other little kids will think you are so cool, it wouldn't lower your self esteem at all, it would make you the coolest lil kid in the whole neighborhood. see, you just gotta look at this from a kid's point of view, and being ahead of the other kids is really cool to little kids...
The device is aimed at gamers and TV watchers, generating a 3D image with use of a pair of 0.7-inch OLED panels, which each display separate images, doing away with the ghost imagery that often comes along with 3D displays.
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i'm sorry to the rest of the silly commenters here, but i work at a toy store, and this idea sounds like seven times more efficient than the lame training wheels that i used as a kid. you could stop and stay stopped, but this just increases stability , so the wheel is more like riding a bike. it'll let them progress to not using it at all faster, and the wheel itself looks nice. i know a lot of parents who would be willing to buy this thing. ya'll are just too pessimistic.
Training wheels are $10 and don't require batteries. They work every bit as well as this...probably better.
Mousetrap reinvention fail.
Training wheels, when set properly, give children a chance to properly learn to ride a bike. This device does the balancing for them and the occasional scraped knee is just part of childhood. Honestly, we are sterilizing childhood way too much.
Training wheels are both a physical and psychological crutch. For some kids, it's unnerving to suddenly have it removed. This device can act as a crutch that can be tuned physically, but still have a full psychological effect.
If gradually lowered, at the final stages, the wheel becomes a placebo.
Some kids just have a lower self-esteem - this could be a great morale booster and help them get into activities that other kids are doing.
Or it could lower their self esteem knowing that they needed a $100 piece of technology to do what other people did with little $10 wheels.
Either way it's a crutch, but when you take the training wheels away from the kid, and they ride the bike without them for the first time, they know they've accomplished something. If you gradually change the settings on this they might not even notice, there's no accomplishment in learning to ride a bike.
ok, so, imagine this... all the other lil kids in the neighborhood are learning how to ride a bike, and they have these lame training wheels. you get this $100 piece of technology and you ride in with no training wheels... all the other little kids will think you are so cool, it wouldn't lower your self esteem at all, it would make you the coolest lil kid in the whole neighborhood. see, you just gotta look at this from a kid's point of view, and being ahead of the other kids is really cool to little kids...
@Joe
I have 6 mousetraps set up at every place I see the mouse, and the it seems to be immune to the smell of peanut butter. Bring on the reinvention!