Any reason they made it look like skeet?

Thank goodness for a device like this. If I don't keep the internal pressure in my stomach in excess of certain levels, I risk implosion.

Knowing the proper amount of doughed nuts to ingest to maintain this minimum core pressure is vital to my survival.

Brando's got what plants crave!

It's got electrolytes!

Too bad it's not exclusively sold at TARGET.

dang, that joke sounded better in my head.

very clever title.. i laughed for a while giz

@omg-ponies: Doughed nuts lol!! That is GENIUS!

Careful...wouldnt want anyone thinking your were making threats against the president.

Could be awful ugly...you dont even do that in joke. Surely Giz knows this.

I came here to make the Target joke...seems I'm too late.

/back to wallowing in my own jokeless life

@Gormania: Mmmm... Smithers, it's like a party in my mouth and everyone is invited. Except you, of course, Waylon. You always seem to be so stiff around here.

I must say, chum, these doughed nuts are quite satisfactory. No wonder our troglodytic workers ingest them at such quantities.

Run on down to the bakery and get another three score. And if the italian gives you any trouble, remind him of his paisans, Mssrs. Sacco & Vanzetti. A nickel should cover it.

@Lorne: Great movie reference... And I should know, I went to Film school at Costco.

Doesn't the Sportbrain already do this?

To even joke about presidential assassination is not only unprofessional, but downright shameful.

I expect more from the Giz.

looks pretty big compared to most other pedometers

Looks like the exorcise aid of the late Captain America.

I don't know if it's just me, but pedometer still sounds a bit dirty.... like a device for tracking all nearby sex-offenders....!?!?

Ironically I actually did see one of these at Target. But it was huuuge, and they only had one, and it was in front of the store, on a pole, way up high.

(sorry, joke already made - still couldn't stop self)

@SchruteBuck: You don't mean this kind do you? [www.urbandictionary.com] cause I don't think it looks like that at all.

LOL, so true on the target comments. This pedometer only connects to your PC. Sportbrain is similiar in that it's s USB pedometer but it connects to a website to upload your stats as does as does WalkingSpree.com, my preferred choice (and yes I'm biased). This brando pedometer is not going to be accurate at all, guaranteed with a $17.00 price point, it won't be an accelerometer pedometer. Anyone who's used cheaper pedometers like this gets a little tired of every movement registering a step inaccurately.

@92BuickLeSabre: GAH

They should put this in a cell phone where we will actually use it...maybe Nike needs a cell phone division. Think of the possibilities...we could get automatic text messages if we sit on our ass for more than 8 hours.

Um... I'm confused. I see the target but I don't see the bow... Crossbow? Gun? Whatever, just give me something to shoot it with!

Your political views never excuse the insinuation of an assassination. I've looked past the prOn and the 12 year old-ish writing for a while, but You have officially stepped over the line.

No-one should ever joke about that, whether you like the man or not. This isn't about ME not being able to take a joke, this is about YOU suggesting someone should KILL THE PRESIDENT.

Nice. A new low for Giz. I always thought the writing was a lot more juvenile then the pros @ engadget, now I know they have more class too.

Later Giz.

This is one long-time reader who isn't coming back.

I'm not going that far, but I thought this was over the line too. I said "foul" a few weeks ago when a knuckle-dragging primate / washed up rocker advocated sniping a certain senator from New York. I'm saying it again on this one.

People can say what they like, but I think they should say what they mean. If the headline is not actually advocating a specific action, it shouldn't imply it either.

oh my gosh, someone jokingly referenced presidential assassinations in a country that has had more than its historical fair share. I'm not going to throw out the tired free speech line, but this is akin to jokingly telling someone "I'm going to KILL you!" And did you ever figure maybe, just maybe it could also be a reference to his poor polling numbers and the fact that he's hated across the world? Strapping a target to yourself would be what we call irony, and that's the reference here. Like a rabbit strapping a target to itself. Hunted, get it?

Get off it, people.

The first thing I actually thought of when I saw it wasn't a target, but Captain America. And I don't even read comics. Go figure.

This day and age, you can't take joking that far. I don't care who's in office, you don't do this, ever!

Grow up guys. We are paying attention.

Whatever. It was tasteless. Just more evidence of the "crassification" of dialog.

I have no idea why I would expect more from this site.

This is a note for those readers who use 96.7% of their brain capacity to keep breathing, eating or walking (fortunately, very few):

Please note that the reference of the headline is NOT because of the current President of the US, but because so many US Presidents were shot in the past.

It's something called irony.

Alternatively, the other headline was:

"Brando USB Pedometer Not Recommended for Use While Hunting with Dick Cheney"

But I thought it was too political.

Ah.

Insults.

Lovely.

I'm pretty sure I was just pointing out that it could be taken the wrong way. Obviously that makes me a red-state moron. I'll just go back to picking my nose now.

Insults.

Goodluckwithat.

Maybe not the best strategy for a site based on visitor comments, but then I'm just a red state neanderthal.

@HAKUBAK, stop your bitchy whiny little rant. Quite obviously Gizmodo if referring to the fact that the single button interface is so simple even a chimp like Bush can use it. The very idea that you come to the conclusion of some sort of assassination conspiracy being born from a pedometer review headline make you suspect! I suggest you pipe down and take a nap.

So what if it could be "taken the wrong way"? Are people supposed to just shut up in case anything could be "taken the wrong way"? Is this how sensitive some people have become?

The comment from T2Technology is so way over the top you'd think he or she didn't know the meaning of satire, humour and, eh, you know, free speech. It was a joke, for god's sake.

I thought it was a great headline (when I finally got it, being foreign and all).

Not suitable if you're being stalked by assassins, unless you enjoy taunting them, but otherwise, if you're trying to live cleanly and healthily, the Brando USB Pedometer loves you. It can store up to 3 days worth of walking data, which you can synchronize to your computer via USB.