Anyone find a place that sells these yet?

These would be PERFECT for my little sister/brother.

If someone brought these stateside and they were in fact safe, I think the company would have a mini fad on its hands

awesome!

"Too bad they are probably made of materials that induce hallucinations when licked."

and the problem is??? i want two!!!

Yea. They sell these in Hong Kong in street vendors all over the place. Amazingly cheap.

They have tomato ones and when you throw them at walls, people think they're real ones!

And we got the proof, in video. What video? Looks like still shots to me. Looks fun for about 5 minutes. I wonder what the effect would look like if this thing were thrown at your buddy's face.

Sorry, my bad. The page wasn't loading properly for me. doh!

woah...that is awesome, I want one- but I want one that has half of it's face blown off and a red eye...just like the terminator.

Isn't this basically the same as those little sticky rubbery men you throw at the window, after which they "climb" down?

Those have been around like forever.

Hah, all of you were fooled by the trick photography. There's a guy with a heat gun just above the pig melting it. It's just played back in reverse.....

very very cool stuff.

@meticans: must be sarcasm...

@papaguru: no. those don't actually look like they flatten...this toy is like throwing pudding at a wall and then it returns back to the shape of the pudding cup it was in...

they're also available in mainland china (all over the touristy spots in shanghai and beijing for sure). their asking price is usually around $1 but they're happy to sell them for less than a quarter. the vendors throw them against pieces of smooth plastic that they carry around to demonstrate, but you can use anything relatively flat. they have some sort of liquid (water?) that you can see inside of them.

can anyone translate? [lokuloku.com]

@esadun: yeah its water, my friend got one while i was in shanghai and i popped it, ha. I also threw one at the ceiling and it stayed there for hours.

That is cool, yet disturbing somehow.

That little thing is so cute that it can only be masking a terrible evil.

Yes, exactly like Hello Kitty.

Cool, I'm heading to Asia soon, I'll look out for them and build my own army of world conquering indestructible pigs.

Freaking awesome! My kid (who has a bit of a destructive streak anyway) would love one of those - even the pig one.

I can see "boss" models being very popular :-)

I always had a desire to releae frustration by hurling ceramic mugs against a cinder block wall... this would be even better (no shrapnel and I only need to buy one or two throwing items).

AWESOME! I NEED (yes, need) one. Now. Or else.

The miracle of polymorphic lead paint at work!

Dealextreme.com sells them. I bought one but it exploded in my wife's face when I threw it to her lol

isn't it a form of the 'known' toy polymers
check out this great pdf. Does Pink Floyd know about it?

[www.chymist.com]

@Gann:
That website is hilarious if you can read Japanese.

This is "Kinton" the

-Squashable-pig
-but regain its shape-pig

How to take care of your new pet:

-There is water inside. If it gets punctured, Kinton will no longer play with you.

-Kinton does not very tasty, please do not put it in your mouth.
etc. etc...

correction -Kinton is not very tasty...

niceee

They missed the market, though. That creeply 'can't kill it' thing lends itself to a more frightening image than an uber-cute pig.

Gimme a Freddy Krueger or a cockroach that comes back after squashing.

@sansovino: I don't know, I'm kind of with strider_mt2k, there's something even creepier about the cute little pig.

Especially with that crow cawing in the background of the video.

Something very Dr. Who-esque about the whole thing to me.

LOL nice. It's japanese isn't it?
You can tell by the crows... kinda makes me nostalgic.

Now, they only have to make a T1000 version.

they sell these things ALLLLLL over seoul, south korea. i've seen the vendors just sit there and throw these things over and over in the subways.

if you're curious why it's a pig as opposed to other critters, it's cos it's the year the pig by the chinese lunar calendar.

@uptonogood: well, what can I say. Then this is definitive PROOF that Korea and Japan are LIGHT years ahead of us, stupid stoopeed westerners.

I want one. These look like fun.

Now, if they could only figure out how to make cars out of this stuff...

I believe these can be had in the States as well. I know someone who bought basically the same thing around Halloween at a local crap store like Big Lots, but it was in the form of an eyeball. It was fun at the office until it picked up dirt and "hairs" from the floor etc. Then it was just gross.

Oh, and I got hit squarely in the eye with it once when someone was throwing it. How ironic would it have been to lose vision because of that?

I purchased 2 of them from my trip to Korea for $2.

I don't see it coming state side because they smell like pertrolium (?) / Gasoline.

The smell stays on your hands for a couple of days too!!!

So, anyone know of any sites in the US from which we can purchase these? I'd love to pick up a few.

"Too bad they are probably made of materials that induce hallucinations when licked." Do you have thoughts of licking this thing?

@FreeMan: Awww Data, one problem though, people's bones aren't made of this.

Booty traps.

Booby traps.

That's what I said, booby traps...

The octopus was really scary.

What about the fleshbot potential? Sure the Japanese are on this aspect by now?

Bring 'em stateside! I want a dozen right NOW!

@gary_7vn: By now? I'm certain that's where it started.

It's like technological advancement through NASA/DoD developments in the U.S.

First a sexual (or military in the U.S.) use is identified and developed, then mainstream applications occur.

Splat pigs? Yeah, they're all over Seoul, a dollar or less in the subway. They're probably toxic though, as they smell like oil paint. They also burst relatively easy (they're filled with water).

I brought back about 10 of these with me this summer to give to young relatives (ones smart enough not to eat them).

For anyone who doubts the video above:

youtube.com/watch?v=LIE4d_gIfJ8

I just ordered 50 to give away as free gifts on ebay sales.

I bought one from a cheap roadside stall in thailand a year back....they were selling ones which looked like an eyeball, a tomato,a soccer ball and guess what....a penis!!

Yea, this is old "tech." I had a pair of these about 15 years ago called "Splat Balls." It was the same material as those stretchy sticky hands. Throw the ball against a wall, it flattens, then pulls itself together.

If its still the same material i have a major warning!

DO NOT THROW AGAINST A PAINTED WALL

I did. Left HORRIBLE grease stains my mom had to paint over. To this day she STILL reminds me of "Those splat ball things you got, that you threw at the wall, which i then had to re-paint because of the giant grease stains they left."

Haha we have some of these at the office. The first one BURST!

Sweet!

Does anyone recall those 25¢ sticky, elastic vending machine toys? Sometimes they're molded as hands or lizard tongues or maces, or sometimes they come shaped like balls.

Now, you know those water slipper toys that they sell in water-themed parks, like Sea World? Y'know, a sack of water in a tube-shaped bag.

Yeah, take the former, and fill it with the same fluid as the latter. There ya go - squishy pig thingy. It's really not such a spectacular thing as Gizmodo is making it out to be.

@WildWon: Fully seconded, I've got a big ugly grease stain on one of the doors in my house. On a matte-textured paint, they'll make an awful mess.

I bought some of these on the street in South Korea for $1 each. Make sure you buy 5 times more than you want, they break easy. They also tend to collect fuzz and hair like a real life Beautiful Katamari.

$2.50 with free shipping
yellow:
[www.dealextreme.com]
in red:
[www.dealextreme.com]

We have those things here in Brazil since, I don't know... Forever?
They sell it on the street, and in "everything for R$ 1,99" stores. I had a lot of those when I was a kid, 'cause i use to throw them at the walls and ceiling of my place, and they always got dirty (so did the walls) and stop squishing properly.

I haven't seen any pig shaped, though.

Hmm so this is what Marriage life is.. u trow her away.. she just comes back..
OoooOoh so know i get all those old dirty jokes..

It doesn't have 3G, gotta wait for version 2.0

@hagrun: Yes. Actually, I thought about BITING them.

$2.50?! I got 3 of these in a Beijing market for RMB$10. I think that's about US$0.50. I've still got a couple at home.

Try chucking it at your TV screen. It's hilarious watching it roll down. Or sticking it onto your ceiling and wait for someone to walk under it. :)

lol, will it blend? And if so, will it regenerate?

....omg i'm going to buy me 1000 of those

these are nothing new...i had one when i was a kid (88? i'd have been like 5) only it wasn't a cow..it was an eyeball. the cow looks like it's made of the same material...only with ears, legs, and a defined paint job

i got one of these for my cousin when i went on a trip to korea last summer and they were only 3 dollars. When i was