May 14 2009The Study Ball: I Said Do Your Homework!
The Study Ball is allegedly a real $115 product that prevents you from moving from your desk while you're supposed to be studying. Obviously, it's a complete sham unless it weighs at least 200lbs, because I can lift twice that with my littlest piggy.
The Study Ball gadget is a prison-style ball and chain that you can program to keep track of how much time you spend studying. Once you've selected the desired duration, you chain the ball to your ankle and the manacle won't come off until the schedule study time is up.A red LED indicator displays the "Study Time Left" and keeps you informed as to how much longer you've got to keep studying. The ball and chain are made of highly durable steel and weighs a total of 9.5 kg / 20.95 pounds, which makes it difficult to move while wearing it.
21lbs, pfffft. That's not gonna stop anybody from doing anything. Including, but not limited to: robbing a liquor store. ALL THE BOURBON OR YOUR ANKLE GETS IT! What? NO THIS AIN'T NO SKIP-IT!
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Study Ball brings seriously old school methods to child rearing [dvice]
Thanks to e., who actually knows the whole Skip-It jingle. Wow, e., I think I love you.
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Reader Comments
1. GeekOnAmission - May 14, 2009 9:18 PM
ANGELO! In My Office RIGHT NAO!!!!111111onehundredandeleven!1!!11!!!!
2. Ryan - May 14, 2009 9:21 PM
Paying $115 for this is stupid. Stuff like that doesn't work unless it shocks you or makes you poop randomly.
3. STOMPY - May 14, 2009 9:32 PM
you want study balls? come and study my magnificint balls, unless of course you are a dude, in which cause you can marvel at them...
4. Daisy - May 14, 2009 9:38 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where max put on old spice and walked down the street whistling. He thought Baja would go crazy for him but he only appealed to homos.
5. Tennist0 - May 14, 2009 9:38 PM
just to piss off my parents, I'd totally use it as a skip it and damage the whole house...sweet revenge!
6. Tennist0 - May 14, 2009 9:39 PM
y'know, i think i may have to upgrade this and add spikes...mideval flail skip it (for a limited time only)
7. Bubbowrap - May 14, 2009 9:49 PM
@5
Damn, beat me to it.
I have to admit, though, this would've worked on me when I was five years old and suffered from ADD.
8. Robbie - May 14, 2009 9:51 PM
I can't wait to see what happens when someone is studying while wearing this in a building where a gas leak/flood/fire/zombie attack breaks out.
9. STOMPY - May 14, 2009 9:59 PM
I wonder how much the first wrongful death lawsuit against this company will settle for....
10. Chuck Nunchuck - May 14, 2009 10:19 PM
Some girl is going to paint this in a flesh tone, hang it around her neck, let the ball dangle in front of her chest to look like a third breast, her parents will kick her out the house for being a freak of nature, thus letting her skip out of homework. They need to tighten these loopholes up.
11. STOMPY - May 14, 2009 10:22 PM
@10
Let me guess, after they kick her out of the house is when you scoop them up... am i right or am i right, or am i right, im right aren't I
12. Chuck Nunchuck - May 14, 2009 10:34 PM
STOMPY, get out of my brain. WTF.
13. Truk - May 14, 2009 11:12 PM
hey! what happened to "whale tails"?!
14. McCracken - May 14, 2009 11:17 PM
What if it breaks and never opens when it is suppose to?
@7 I agree this would have helped me when I was youngerand my ADHD was worse.
-after thought- it's like some f**ked up thing for rapest to use to make sure the person stays and "studys" them all they have to do it keep resetting the time so it stays locked!!!
15. STOMPY - May 14, 2009 11:18 PM
@13
Day late and a dolla short... it got the ax soon after it was born... so sad, it had potiential, it coulda been a contender...
16. Danny - May 14, 2009 11:58 PM
WTF happened to the whale tailers?
17. Elboroto - May 15, 2009 12:03 AM
That's what mother used to use with me to prevent the devil to enter my bathroom buddy and make it feel funny.
18. STOMPY - May 15, 2009 12:10 AM
@17
Bathroom buddy?
http://www.the-joke-shop.com/ProductImages/PP7020.jpg
19. Aids - May 15, 2009 12:19 AM
I'd Wear this if i had to study a girl instead of actual books
http://std-aids.mybrute.com/
20. STOMPY - May 15, 2009 1:47 AM
show me the way to go home
i'm tired and i wanna go to bed
well i had a little drink about an hour ago
and it went straight to my head...
sure gets quite around here at night (night in the US that is...)
21. Ishmael - May 15, 2009 2:08 AM
@16 I was wondering the same thing. Where did the tail go?
22. AHAB - May 15, 2009 2:18 AM
@21
I killed the whale
23. Jaded Icon - May 15, 2009 7:28 AM
If parents have to resort to this to get their kids to study, they obviously don't beat their kids enough. My parents didn't need a ball and chain, they had a belt and broken bottle.
24. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - May 15, 2009 7:29 AM
@ALL
http://englishrussia.com/?p=2449
Found it! Now praise the Shum!
25. hulkinggorgon - May 15, 2009 7:42 AM
what a pointless invention, why would people waste their time?
26. Clamdigger - May 15, 2009 8:14 AM
I brought one ........ alot harder to use than that skip a lot I had as a kid.
27. STOMPY - May 15, 2009 8:25 AM
@GFS
I knew you weren't sleeping, you were just looking for that whale all night...
28. Nightbringer - May 15, 2009 8:29 AM
I have something like that though it's court issued and beeps if I leave the house.
http://nightbringer101.mybrute.com
29. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - May 15, 2009 8:48 AM
GFS - well you found it, but that doesn't ressurect my comment =(
30. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - May 15, 2009 8:49 AM
Oops - forgot my "relevant" comment on this -
LAME LAME LAME - if used as directed... in the bedroom however, could be interesting =)
31. STOMPY - May 15, 2009 9:04 AM
Life is like a hurricane here in russia... Race cars, pew pews, aeroplanes - it's a whale blur. You might solve a mystery or rewrite history.... whale tales... woooo hoo....
32. Rhialto - May 15, 2009 9:36 AM
This good be a good suggestion for all those moms what to buy for their brood.
33. Darth - May 15, 2009 9:38 AM
For a 8 year old kid,that's a lotta weight!
34. Watch-303 - May 15, 2009 9:40 AM
*facepalm*
35. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - May 15, 2009 9:41 AM
@29
I sorry. I can't make magics.
36. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - May 15, 2009 11:21 AM
35 - I guess that means you can't teleport me out of work early today either then huh?
Damnit.
37. DF - May 15, 2009 12:32 PM
Timed auto-unlocking manacles sure would have saved a lot of embarassment when the fire department had to break down the door and saw the handcuffs off when the bitch left me there...
38. jimmy - May 15, 2009 8:34 PM
can some one say FIRE HAZARD...
39. Keithypoo - May 19, 2009 12:27 AM
Can you say "OH SHIT MY COMPUTER IS ON FIRE! RUN FOR YOUR......OH F@CK!"
40. laptop battery sell - January 4, 2010 3:16 AM
It's a good idea .Thank you.