Lets knock the kids out already!

I don't know how they come up with these ideas, but this may be one of the creepiest things I have run across in a long time. A doctor in Boston got paid $1.8 million dollars to create the PediSedate, a combo gaming device and sedation machine. It is meant to keep kids occupied while sedating them with nitrous. It even has a pulse-oximeter to slightly adjust the flow of gas in real time. While this is all fine and good, are you serious? The mask alone may be on the of scariest things I have ever seen. Can you imagine being a kid and having that thing strapped to your face? On top of which, why is it that video games are now the go-to thing for kids. Maybe we should be teaching them that sometimes they have to go through uncomfortable situations to take care of yourself in the long run, or for your future goals. If we are teaching kids that the only way to do things that they don't like is by distracting them, aren't we really doing them a disservice? I mean seriously, look at this thing:



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