Honda Develops Assisted Walking Apparatus

1. Ashley
   November 9th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

   This is amazing! Go Honda for actually giving a crap about your employees. I'm impressed. I hope this technology can become more widespread. If it can be made slightly more attractive, I bet my grandmother (who has terrible knees) would love this.

2. Jake Da Snake
   November 9th, 2008 at 10:06 pm

   Maybe.. Maybe Honda is amazing for actually giving a crap about their employees..

   Or maybe.. Maybe Honda just wants its employees to work even longer shifts and not be able to sue them.

3. Peeves
   November 9th, 2008 at 11:50 pm

   Yeah, they won't be able to sue them because they won't be able to be injured and they can work longer shifts because it's not as physically difficult and the extra money made is then...ok I give up. Please make your argument against this make sense.

   Anyway, all I could think was: Jewel's Boot Is Made For Walking.

4. SD
   November 10th, 2008 at 12:59 am

   I can't believe it's not a nut massager!

5. SD
   November 10th, 2008 at 12:59 am

   I thought it was one of them assisted fecal-collectors!

6. SD
   November 10th, 2008 at 1:00 am

   I could've sworn it was one of them shit-sucker machines!

7. SD
   November 10th, 2008 at 1:00 am

   Damn, I thought I was finally done with my Depends!

8. SD
   November 10th, 2008 at 1:00 am

   Now I can finally use one of them Japanese squat-style toilet seats without falling over!

9. ted
   November 10th, 2008 at 2:33 am

   Interesting, but there's something a little fishy-looking about them.

10. anotherguy
    November 10th, 2008 at 5:49 am

    This nut grabbing apparatus sure looks uncomfortable.

11. gtron
    November 10th, 2008 at 8:25 am

    you could vibrate that seat cushion and increase sales dramatically -seriously though - I know Asian men are in theory less well-endowed, but I would squat my balls with that design... great for old folks gardening, and of course for America's Obese, who need help getting into Walmart.

12. Skipweasel
    November 10th, 2008 at 8:52 am

    So - it's basically a robot arm with a clever biological manipulator on the end?

    Actually, I don't think that at all, but it's too good a cheap-shot to miss. Well done Honda!

13. K!P
    November 10th, 2008 at 9:16 am

    we have something like that, we call em "seats". Jokiing aside, it looks like a good thing.

14. Martini
    November 10th, 2008 at 11:59 am

    I'd feel like a 'tard warking around in that but if I could actually GO for walk without my cane, that would rule.

15. MENLOHEAVYWEIGHT
    November 10th, 2008 at 12:23 pm

    I used to think if nothing else, at least the last bastion of American pride, it's laziness, would be ours forever, but now even the Japaneses are beating us at that!!!!! Hurry someone invent a way to fart without having to strain any abdominal muscles!!!!

16. JivesTheButler
    November 10th, 2008 at 1:37 pm

    Though it may not happen soon enough that I could pilot one, I hope to live to see the day when this technology is extrapolated into Mechwarrior style walking battle robots.

    I for one welcome our new cyborg overlords

17. Ali S.
    November 10th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

    That looks mighty uncomfortable especially in the nether regions. Plus, how do they stop it from chafing?

18. sigh
    November 10th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

    Am I the only one who thought of the "shock absorbers" Chell has in Portal?

19. Sly
    November 10th, 2008 at 6:51 pm

    My gonads are WAY too BIG for that contraption.

20. DOJ
    November 10th, 2008 at 7:36 pm

    can they make superhuman leaps?

21. Peeves
    November 10th, 2008 at 7:41 pm

    Isn't it made for the disabled and people who carry heavy loads? How'd people jump to laziness here?

22. ChrisW
    November 11th, 2008 at 6:54 am

    Is it compatible with my segway? I hate having to stand unassisted while moving.

23. Sannhp
    November 11th, 2008 at 9:07 am

    I was a motorcycle mechanic and these would have made my job a lot easier. Try changing the rear tire of a Honda Goldwing precariously jacked up on the ground while crouching.

24. renderanything
    November 11th, 2008 at 11:10 am

    Agreed, for certain repetitive motions, aid with lifting and any other myriad of real reasons it makes a lot of sense.
    The one thing I want to know though, is if you can get designer codpieces. If you can market designer cell phone straps then I'm sure everyone will have designer codpieces on their AWD's in the future.

25. noahstrickland
    November 11th, 2008 at 11:55 am

    I give the sex toy industry a year before they have up graded this technology into the the mainstream.

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