Japan has raised the stakes in the couch potato wars, and is producing a sleeping bag with legs. It’s like a snowsuit. For grown-ups. Except you can’t use your arms.
Come to think of it, it’s sort of the opposite of a Snuggie.
The Japanese Snuggie Devolves Humans Into Giant, Two-Legged Tadpoles [Gizmodo]
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It’s so adorable! I’ll take two.
Still doesn’t come close to the cuteness, warmth, and just plain coolness of the Taun Taun Sleeping bag. Besides it being all the things above, it’s also a geek chick MAGNET. Or so I was told.
Img: http://s165.photobucket.com/albums/u45/gitemstevedave/TaunTaun/?action=view¤t=jerseycam32.jpg
http://s165.photobucket.com/albums/u45/gitemstevedave/TaunTaun/
I’d crawl into a taun taun sleeping bag with you!
Yes, I’m going to have to say I would as well.
GitEmSteveDave fascinates me, in a scary kind of way. As long as I got to take the Taun Taun bag with me in the morning…
**Not stalking SteveDave** I’m just a fan I guess.
& @ Alter_Ego I’m gonna guess that stalking GESD would be ok. Unless you were a scary stalker. If you were a nice stalker, I’m sure he wouldn’t mind. Just saying. He IS single…
& @Tankueray ::Blushes::
D: SAVE THE TAUNTAUNS!
Yes, it *is* a geek chick magnet. We want to be close to the taun taun and share in its loverly warmth and guts.
I want to know what it smells like. And whether it smells worse on the inside than it does on the outside.
I’ll sleep in the bag with you, too! I guess we’ll need a really BIG Taun Taun if more people want to sleep with you.
Oh my goodness, I can’t stop laughing!
You know… for kids.
Why doesn’t it have arms? So strange.
Yeah, why does it have legs, but no arms?
Oh, wait, I just looked at the picture- the answer is: so you can cross your legs.
Is that really a need that had to be filled? “I love my sleeping bag, but if only I could cross my legs! While lying down!”.
i can cross my legs in a sleeping bag just fine
I was kidding !!!
The Japanese have evolved beyond the need for arms.
Because then it would be a snowsuit!
How disturbing…
My niece wants it. I gave her a Snuggie for her birthday last July and she loves it. In fact she wants another one to sleep in.
Reminds me of a sleepover at a friends house a few years (like 9 or 10). We could have so used that, we just had to settle with putting the sleeping bags on ourselfes (upside down) and I ended up walking into a wall, and someone else knocked over a lamp.
That is completely bizarre. But then, Japan has cornered the market on bizarre!
If the larval stage is this scary, what happens when it pupates?
Would someone tell me just exactly WTF is wrong with Japan? Why do they keep coming up with this stuff? WHY!?
You’re gonna criticize Japan when the US invented cheese in a can, the Snuggie, the Clapper, and the spray-on toupee?
It’s called Chingodu.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chind%C5%8Dgu
I was originally told that the idea is to make ingenious but dysfunctional items to get the bad ideas out- therefore making room for new GOOD ideas…
but the Wikipedia article doesn’t reference that.
We did drop those bombs on them. As far as I’m concerned, that excuses a lot of… whatever this is.
Excuse me, may I pass through here?
His feet are going to be really cold. Hope he doesn’t get frostbite.
His feet are going to be really cold. Hope he doesn’t get frostbite. Some company used to make something that looked like miniature ear muffs. They were intended to be used as a nose warmer. They made just about as much sense.
Errr… how will that guy zip up the legs? I see no front zipper (unless it’s hidden from view in the picture ) and I see no way to get an arm out except through the head hole.
i KNOW! That´s the first thing i thought when i looked at it!
Right! And how do you get out of it??
I really *really* object to the “Tadpole” comparison that Gizmodo made.Tads are cute and wriggly. This is just f’ing scary.
Why not just make arms on it, too? Oh, well then it would be a snowsuit, and it couldn’t really be marketed a new item.
this is awesome. Weird, but awesome.
Put some arms on this an I could do it. But then I could also just wear my coveralls…but they’re all greasy and stuff. I was just sitting around today all warm except my ankles.
Today, we got a **freaking blizzard** in Texas! Yesterday it was 60 degrees. Like 3″ of snow, WTF!? There were actual blizzard warnings on the news! I have never seen that in 3 decades of living here. But I think the NWS has gone limp, when I was little a tornado warning meant “GTF out now!!!”, now they say it whenever they see something swirly on the radar.
again, off my lawn!
I know I’m getting old when the neighbors having a party bothers me and they are 20 years older… I live next to my grandparents, and they know the neighbors; I’ve never met them. I was walking across the field yesterday and I swear he came into the driveway to talk to me with some lame excuse just so he could check me out. I’m freaking cute, but the lame excuse was god awful. He’s got that GitEmSteveDave handsome thing going on, but I know he’s not as interesting.
Without armholes, how do you zip yourself in? Could be a problem if one has to pee in a hurry . . .
Obviously they didn’t hear about the Selk Bag:
http://www.lippiselkbag.co.uk/store.cfm
Thank you. I couldn’t remember what this was called. Unfortunately it looks like international orders are temporarily unavailable.
You’ll need a medical alert device. Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!!
Hope this stops everyone’s brain from imploding, but my understanding of the accompanying text is that the purpose of the legs is so you can get up and run away if a bear comes in the middle of the night.
It’s still dumb, but at least it’s SOME reason for the legs.
And when you fall down, writhing in the dirt like a turtle on it’s shell, the bear thinks you’re a tasty pig in a blanket
This quite literally made me laugh out loud.
Yeah, I don’t run too well without arms, either. Actually, I’ve hit that stage where I can’t even get up off the ground without arms, so I’d just be flailing about like a tasty snack from the get-go.
Six more legs and it makes a great octopus costume for Halloween
This same kinda thing has been available in the camping world for years. They make them with arms, too so that you can stay in your sleeping bag and prepare meals/gear before getting out and exposing yourself.
Don’t knock it ’til you need it.
I foresee many, many smashed-in noses from people fumbling around in this and falling forward, unable to stop the fall with their arms.
Great gift ideas for a few people I know, now that I think about it…
It looks like something that belongs in Super Mario Bros 2.
I’ve got a great idea though. I’ll take one of these and attach arms to it. It’ll be just like wearing a winter jacket and snow pants, except… well…
Judas…!!! Yeah, so I guess if you are going to behave like a couch potato then you should dress like a potato too.
Totally awesome. I
Am I the only person who looked at the guy walking and thought: Domo!
http://www.google.com/search?q=domo&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a