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Pedisedate: Gassing your kids, one Game Boy game at a time photo

You are so not ready for this.

A new piece of medical equipment is being tested right now called the Pedisedate. Basically, it is a headset that is placed on a child before they are admitted to surgery. The device connects to a Game Boy or portable CD player (yup, not a Nintendo DS or iPod -- apparently the Pedisedate also transports you to 1996) and a snorkel-like piece swings forward and is placed over the child's nose. As the kid plays videogames or listens to music, nitrous oxide, an anesthetic gas, is emitted through the snorkel and puts the child to sleep.

Nope, I am not joking.

While I think its intentions are noble (making kids comfortable during surgery is a wonderful thing) the concept of the Pedisedate is absolutely ridiculous.

But you think just reading about this is what is so out of control? Oh, my friends, you would be wrong. Please hit the jump and check out the promotional video.

Seriously, you are not ready.

[Thanks, Matthew!]


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CRKFIEND's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:03
CRKFIEND
I wouldn't mind one for home use.
mrberns's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:04
mrberns
In after LAWLS. What about that wasn't the most ridiculous thing ever?
Dexter345's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:05
Dexter345
I don't see why it wouldn't just be a universal headphone jack, allowing you to hook it into whatever you want.

But that video! That kid was totally high. He was waving his hand around and just watching it, like, "Man, this is so trippy..."
JoZo's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:06
JoZo
Scary stuff o.o the name of the product is pretty weird also.
Qraze's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:06
Qraze
so they start the gb up, gets to the title screen and they're knocked out? anesthetic gas does not take very long to work.
Bulkmailer's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:07
Bulkmailer
I want one, I could be like a futuristic Dennis Hopper from Blue Velvet.
MrSadistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:07
MrSadistic
Well I don't know about you, but for a guy who lives in a van down by the river and collects SEARS catalogs just for the pictures of boys and girls, it sounds great!
Chad Concelmo's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:08
Chad Concelmo
@Dexter345,
It probably is. I just thought it was funny that they advertise it using an old school Game Boy and portable CD player. :)
Arlo infidel's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:10
Arlo infidel
It's like a gas mask bong! Hahha. That is ridiculous though.
@JoZo - Yeah, the product name is odd...the whole thing is really though.
JoZo's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:11
JoZo
@MrSadistic

Especially the name of the product.
Spotlight51's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:12
Spotlight51
this just looks like one of those things my friends would use to get high
Timdabrat's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:12
Timdabrat
Back in my day they just put the thing on my face and challenged me to see if I could count backwards from 100, or they told me to take 5 really big breaths in.

Kids today. Such pansies.
eternalplayer2345's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:13
eternalplayer2345
I want a free game boy color with my surgery!
de BLOO's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:13
de BLOO
o_O

I wasn't ready...
Phantom Spaceman's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:14
Phantom Spaceman
New from Cinco!
Tristero's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:14
Tristero
"Hey, your daddy told me to come pick you up after school. I'm one of his works buds. He's got a long night at the office. Come on! Jump in the car. Look at this crazy videogame toy I've got for you to try. Your dad said you'd love it. There you go, just strap yourself in tight there. Take some deep breaths. Um, yeah, your dad wants me to take you camping out in the woods so we can play games all night ... "
witthaus's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:17
witthaus
Why would this necessarily be needed? Couldn't they just strap a less menacing, regular gas mask on a child and let them play with a DS or watch a portable DVD player? This gives me the heebie-jeebies.
DeusPayne's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:17
DeusPayne
And... how this is an improvement over the normal gas mask approach is...? You're out in a matter of seconds anyways. You might be able to get a couple WarioWare games in, but that's about it.
Harris Hatsworth's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:19
Harris Hatsworth
There's too much bizarreness in this to comment on everything without feeling like I'm doing a stand-up routine. I'm particularly confused about the Gameboy Colour and as to why the don't just put normal gas masks on them in the first place.
grafkhun's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:23
grafkhun
Or just smack the kid with a bag of warm nickels.
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:25
Chronic Logic
What the hell? So they play a game and lull the kid's sense of security and then out of nowhere they shoot up knockout gas up their nostrils.

Why not tell them to look the other way and then clock them behind the head?
Rockvillian's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:29
Rockvillian
"Your kids will never have to experience pain, suffering, or real life!*"



*Until they get older and realize there isn't a game boy attached to a gas nozzle for every painful situation, which will spark them into a murderous rampage, fueled by their false perspective of a smoothed over existence being shattered.
bluexy's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:29
bluexy
Pedoserape.
ScottyG's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:33
ScottyG
Well, while I admire their efforts to make doing medical procedures on kids easier, and I applaud any effort to render kids unconscious, what ever happened to just good old beating them unconscious...

Just seems like a bit of overkill to me. ;)
VGMari's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:34
VGMari
I wish I would of had that shit as a kid!! Fucking awesome!
pascuz46's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:36
pascuz46
That contraption in the pictures looks like its used for kids who has asthmatic attacks when playing video games.
RAB's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:37
RAB
I already love the idea. Why all the negativity from everyone? What's so outragious about it? It's just a way for the kid to be comfortable. Sure, the video was kind of strange in the way it was put together, but to kids I'm sure that shit looks rad as fuck.
It wouldn't even have to be a game either. Could just be a DVD player.
I don't know, I've got no problem with it. Seems like alot of people just jumped on the hater-aid band wagon :/
Hitogoroshi's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:37
Hitogoroshi
I want one....you can keep the gameboy
Redface's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:41
Redface
The conecpt of this thing scares the shit out of me.
ArrestedDeveloper's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:45
ArrestedDeveloper
Ooooh Chad, Chad is truly outrageous, truly truly truly outrageous.
Kamikaze Slowey's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:46
Kamikaze Slowey
Pedisedate: Gassing your kids, one Game Boy* game at a time


*Game Boy not included
Dimly's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:46
Dimly
LMAO@ the music
yggogre's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 15:52
yggogre
Nitrous Oxide is also known as "laughing gas" - also, you can tell that the young kid in the top right picture thinks it a mic headset or something.


Hope it's a commercial product.
Zeal404's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 16:01
Zeal404
what song is that?

I know that song.
Zeal404's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 16:02
Zeal404
nevermind

Israel Kamakawiwo'Ole Over the Rainbow
Corican's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 16:05
Corican
Thank you so much Zeal404.
I was about to start searching.
dc2005's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 16:07
dc2005
I think Aprils Fool was two weeks ago... seriously... for real?
BluDesign's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 16:20
BluDesign
God, that is like the worst cover of Over The Rainbow ever. I'd rather be raped by bears than hear that again.

/hits replay

/door knocks

Ooop, brb guys, the bears are here.
RestingSound's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 16:29
RestingSound
I can't believe no one has said this yet. So imagine you are this kid and you just got past 100 lines in tetris and the doctor says "ok so I'm gonna just slide this over your nose..." Next thing you know you wake up to a game over screen. Thats bullshit, don't fuck with a kid while they are playing games.
Timmeh's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 16:33
Timmeh
How is different from just holding a mask on the little bastards face for 5 seconds before they pass out? I should know, it's a pain in the arse gettin' them in the van when they're all kicky and screamy.
Zodiac Eclipse's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 16:38
Zodiac Eclipse
Yeah I'm really missing how if the kid is old enough to play games and keep the headset on why don't they just use a typical gas mask to put them under? Do they think kids are really this stupid?

I like how all smug and proud the doctor looks at the end, like he invented laughing gas or something.
Xhumation's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 17:02
Xhumation
Quick! bring Jim Sterling here. this is a comedy goldmine for him
Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 17:02
Justice
Why not just gas the kid straight as the general concensus does, I fail to see where games are required.
Danzflor's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 17:06
Danzflor
That was traumatic o_O

I wasn't ready .____.

Ok, i gonna ask my doctor if he can let me play Atari when he open my head to check my brain
Halidar's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 17:12
Halidar
I can imagine a stoner getting this and hooking it up to a bong while he plays a gameboy or something. lol
ikiryou's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 17:26
ikiryou
Hm. It needs tubes filled with mysterious mutagenic chemicals designed to increase body mass and size, turning these innocent schoolchildren into....BANE! *gets thrown through a brick wall*
mcmaddlepuss's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 17:50
mcmaddlepuss
wow...
mix's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 18:03
mix
I remember when I had to go under for getting tubes put into my ears.

I only remember counting back to 93 before getting zonked out so I believe they will be out before they can hit start to launch the game...lol
Schmo0zle's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 18:08
Schmo0zle
I think the real question here is: When does it come out, and where can I get one?
Naim Master's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/15/2009 18:08
Naim Master
You heartless bastards , that sounds like a good thing to me , when I was 7 I literally almost opened my leg in two , and if on the surgery I had tetris and Mario Land 2 , I would get a little bit calm-er ...
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