Buff Baby Punching Bag and Dumbbell Rattle: For Tiny TKOs

Designed and manufactured by Fred, the BUFF BABY line of products appear to be exercise equipment designed for newborns. Of course, they only look like that, with the Speed Punching Bag (affiliate link) actually being a crinkle-filled cradle toy, and the dumbbell a toy rattle. Great, I wish I’d read that before buying them, now how am I supposed to train my baby for the ultra-featherweight title?

The Speed Punching Bag clips to the handle of a baby carrier so your child can attempt to punch it, building their much-needed hand-eye coordination. Of course, the way the loop connects so loosely, it looks like it’s going to spend most of its time fallen to the side of the handle while your baby screams because their punching bag just disappeared.

Even if the BUFF BABY line isn’t actual exercise equipment, it doesn’t mean they won’t help your child pursue bodybuilding or boxing by planting the seed in their impressionable little minds. Take me for instance: my parents showered me with all sorts of outer space toys when I was a kid, and I grew up to be an astronaut. And by astronaut, I mean huge Star Trek fan. Close enough.

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This 4-armed sparring robot throws punches back at you while you’re boxing!

Is this a metaphor for how life in 2020 has the ability to punch back? Who knows… All I can say is that the Stryk RXT-1 was built to make you a better sparrer, thanks to its ability to go on the offense, unlike punching bags that just stay static and accept the blows you give them. The RXT-1 is a robot that comes with four padded arms and a face you can absolutely unload on. Built with 3 training modes and 3 difficulty settings to choose from, the RXT-1 robot actually engages with you, allowing you to train with an AI competitor, sort of like in video-games… but for real!

Designed to be a slightly more intense version of those flailing balloon-men you see outside car dealerships, the RXT-1 comes with a head-target, and four padded arms that swing back and forth to simulate the effect of an opponent throwing punches. The arms are designed to throw soft punches (think of yourself being whacked by a pool tube), but they do move as swift as a human hand would, so you’re required to think and act fast to deflect them as soon as you can. A touchscreen on the torso lets you program the RXT-1, choosing between its three built-in modes – Practice, Spar, and Combination. The Practice mode gives you a more predictable opponent, as the robot punches back exactly every 2 seconds in a pre-determined pattern so you know where you next punch is coming from. The spar offers a more realistic experience, as the robot behaves randomly, engaging your reflexes and your ability to think on your feet (quite literally). The Combination mode lets you explore more than 100 different patterns and routines to loosen up your body. Designed to be like your own personal striking trainer. It has over 100 preset combinations and allows users to strike the arm pads as they would the focus mitts. This trains the user’s hand-eye coordination, speed, agility, and cardio.

The RXT-1 can either be wall-mounted, or kept on the ground using a robust floor-stand. It’s extremely easy to assemble, and even offers an add-on torso pad that sits where your opponent’s chest would, so you could train yourself on attacking your opponent’s torso too. The sparring robot comes calibrated to the standards of MMA athletes, but ideally, it’s made for anyone who either wants to keep their martial-arts/boxing skills from going rusty, or someone who’d like to train at home without having to interact with humans during the pandemic. Either way, the three difficulty settings are great for anyone from a beginner to an expert (although no professional fighter has managed to defeat the RXT-1 in its highest difficulty stage), allowing you to boost your reflexes, agility, and hand-eye coordination, while giving you an intense adrenaline-fused HIIT workout that tests both your offense AS WELL as your defense… more than that static punching bag could ever do for you. Oh, and unlike 2020 though, you can switch this guy off if you’ve had enough!

Designer: STRYK USA

Punching Bag Keyboard Lets You Type Out a Workout

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If you ever wanted to just angrily slam your keyboard keys as you type out an email out of frustration, just stop. No need to ruin your valuable electronics when you can literally punch out an email with the N°41 Workout Computer from German design firm Bless. Each punching bag is a different letter of the alphabet, all connected to a single computer. Just punch the bags one at a time to type. You can see it demonstrated in this video (which I find a bit surrealist or maybe avant garde):

I was really hoping to see one of them just do a quick left right left right left right combo to type out LOLOLOLOL. It’s not entirely clear how they came up with the layout, maybe they could do a QWERTY punching bag array for the next time? This is definitely a good way to get your frustrations out, get a workout, and get some work done all at the same time. (via)

Punching Bag Keyboard Lets You Type Out a Workout
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Punching Bag Keyboard: Key Sports

Last year we saw a hack that used a guitar as a computer keyboard. If you thought that was tedious, check out Bless’ workoutcomputer. The fashion and design studio made the installation 4 years ago alongside their winter collection, which included boxing glove-inspired mittens. The workoutcomputer gets its name from the fact that its keyboard is a collection of punching bags.

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Bless presented the workoutcomputer once again at the 2nd Istanbul design biennial. Designboom was on hand to check out the silly invention and took these photos.

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Even a tweet would be cumbersome with this setup. We’d have to invent a new alphabet based on the question mark.

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Inflatable South Park Bop Bags

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Oh Cartman, punch your in the eye. They come from Colorado where the mountains freeze. Soon you can wallop your favorite South Park characters with these South Park Inflatable Bop Bags. These air-filled punching bags are 44 inches tall each and have a water-filled based to keep them upright as they take a beating, mmmkay? Even Kenny, you can’t kill him anymore. You can battle Stan, Cartman, Kenny, Kyle and Chef. What, no Butters? Well then screw you guys, I’m going home. Available this Summer.

Inflatable South Park Bop Bags
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Angry Birds Inflatable Bop Bags

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Inflatable punching bags (or “bop bags”? since when?) meet the video game era with the Angry Birds Pigs Inflatable Bop Bag Angry Birds Inflatable Bop Bags. Just like the real game, these pigs keep coming back. No matter how many times you hit the 3 foot tall bop bag, they pop back up… that is until your crazy friend Mikey hits it with a scissor. Tons of fun and physical activity. And don’t worry about Mikey, he won a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the glue company after eating too much of it and now lives in the Hollywood Hills with his three supermodel girlfriends.

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