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PediSedate Combines Video Games and Going Under

by Evan Shamoon on April 16, 2009 at 05:03 PM



In what may be the single most frightening, and unintentionally awesome, gadget news to ever come across our desktops, the PediSedate is essentially a nitrous oxide-delivery device disguised as a video game.

Designed to be used by pediatric dentists, the device essentially serves as a way to distract kids with Game Boy goodness while nitrous gas prepares them to be operated upon. Really, it's pretty much right out of a George Orwell or William Gibson novel. Our favorite part: the ad's trifecta of "Distraction, Comfort, and Sedation." Oh, no they didn't! Oh, yes they did. We can foresee one serious problem with the device: finding video games boring ever since that one particularly awesome gaming experience at the dentist's office.

While we will praise Dr. Geoffrey Hart's invention as bordering on greatness, we also have to condemn his marketing strategy as near-idiotic. Dentists? Really? When disaffected teens the world over would save up weeks of lunch money for one of these things? Even we straight-and-narrow types can't help but wonder how much fun this thing would make the Mushroom Kingdom. [From: OhGizmo]

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Tags: dentist, drugs, health, kids, novelty, pedisedate, video games, VideoGames

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