When a one-year-old has difficulty with movement, it impairs brain development, since researchers say babies form neural connections through exploration of their environment. How do you get around this? With a bad-ass robotic chair . Physical therapists and mechanical engineers joined forces to create robots that allow babies with disabilities to move around. The robots controlled by a joystick that’s simple enough for a one year old to use

It’s usually considered irresponsible to leave a toddler (or as I like to call them, walking babies) alone at the helm of a massive backhoe. But that’s no problem with this new breed of Superbabies. We don’t know much about this Superbaby, and in fact I’m not totally sure he’s even Russian (or human. Get it?). The video doesn’t provide much beyond some Tetris-style music and impressive feats of baby acumen, but that’s enough for us. It’s very clearly a baby operating a giant backhoe, and those are all the facts we need

Audis are better, but if your tike just won’t shut up about wanting a Bimmer, then by all means bestow upon him or her this shiny BMW Baby Racer II . The Racer comes with “low-noise” rubber tires that promise a quiet ride and marginal obstacle-tackling efficiency. High and low speeds ensure your little loved one will be able to mercilessly taunt their slower Power Wheels -equipped kin at slow speeds, before throwing the BMW into high gear and leaving them in their rearview. Just like real life BMW drivers! This fine example of German engineering is certified by the German Technical Inspection Association (TÜV) for kiddies aged 1-3. Price not available, but if you have to ask you’re probably driving a Kia. [ BMW via Born Rich ]

A 3-year-old New Zealand girl, bored in the early hours of the morning, hopped on her parents’ computer and, via auto-logins, managed to buy a used mechanical excavation machine for around $15,000. The funny thing is, this is not some tomboy girl who pushes Tonka trucks around going “vroom vroom.” No, Pipi (her real name) is described by her mom as “girlie.” “Even when she goes fishing she wears frilly dresses,” the mother said, according to the Times UK. “I think she was just clicking on the computer to see what happened.” If nothing else this demonstrates the sheer unbridled power of the internet , not to mention its impersonality, its lack of intelligent failsafes, and our insane reliance on auto-logins as a way around the security we all demanded in the first place. Also: Apparently you can buy pretty much anything in New Zealand. As you can assume, the seller on the auction site took back their Kobelco digger and sold it to someone else, and the girl’s parents no longer use their auto logins.