The Athletitti Vest Turns You into a Playground for Your Child

If you have kids you know that they will climb all over anything. Furniture, playground equipment, you when you’re trying to watch TV… They are crazy balls of spazzy energy. Well, now you can give them a reason to climb all over you. The Athletitti Vest turns you into a jungle gym for them to climb all over. Really appropriate if your name is Jim.

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The AthleTitti vest was designed by Atsushi Shiraishi at Tama Art University. Now you are no longer just a dad, but a playground. Children will be waiting in line to climb on you. The vest is made of easy-to-grip ropes that provide good hand and footholds for kids and Ewoks alike.

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The idea is to encourage play between kids and adults. It does that job well, but it’s not exactly a fashion accessory. Let’s hope your man-boobs are safe from kids grabbing them to climb, despite it’s unfortunate name.

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[via Laughing Squid]

Serious Kid Fitness

Sometimes ya gotta get a little tricky to get kids off the couch and outside to exercise! The Attivo series of playground equipment focuses on exercising the entire body with a variety of fun games that isolate different areas to improve agility and coordination. It includes a climbing station for upper body, skateboard ramp station for balance and building core muscles, an abacus style station for lower body, and finally a small goal with net in the middle for groups to play games on both sides.

Designer: John Ditchburn

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Sliderider Turns Stairs into a Slide: Wheeeeeee!

The SlideRider looks like a lot of fun. It is basically a set of connected folding mats that turn an ordinary staircase into a slide. It will be so crazy fun that you won’t want to stop there. Soon you will be installing monkey bars and a swing set in your home too. Just convert your home into an entire playground. Why not?

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This indoor slide comes from inventor Trisha Cleveland, who is working with Quirky to make the product a reality. The mats all fold up into a single base unit for easy storage. This is any kid’s dream come true. What kid wouldn’t want a slide in the house?

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This is an amazing idea. But how do you get back up after you slide down?

[via The Awesomer via Geekologie]

Coolest Playground Slide Ever is Attached to a Jetliner

I’ve seen some cool playground slides in my day, but this one has got to be the neatest. It is attached to a jetliner. How much fun would that be to use? In fact this would be a cool way to exit a plane at any time. I dont know about you, but I would spend all day playing on this thing.

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This twisty slide is mounted to a Tupolev Tu-124 located in the Ukraine, where all of the kids grow up awesome and not fearing heights at all. Cool as this thing is though, I don’t know if I would trust those supports to hold the airplane up. They don’t look all that sturdy. Then again, it makes it more of a fun danger game. Slide, then run.

Every time you make it out safely you win… Until you don’t.

[via Neatorama]

Angry Birds Activity Parks to Hit Finland This Year

One of the most popular smartphone applications on any platform  has been the Angry Birds franchise. Now, it’s maker, Rovio has teamed up for something that will have kids in Finland screaming with joy. Rovio and Finnish hotel and resort company Holiday Club will be building Angry Birds Activity Parks in three of its spa hotels.

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The parks will be year-round indoor playgrounds with the first scheduled to be completed by Christmas 2012 in Kuusamon Tropiikki. In February 2013, another Angry Birds Park will launch in Saariselkä with another one coming in the fall to Saimaa. The image above is a rendering of what the activity park will look like.

I wonder why we’re not seeing Angry Birds playgrounds or theme parks launch in the United States yet. I know my kids would go bonkers to play at one of these.