Calling a very small car a "roller skate" has been an ongoing joke for many years. We've been hearing it since the days of the Nash Metropolitan, through the Geo Metro years, right on up through today, many times in reference to the smart fortwo. Judging from the photograph above, though, somebody has gone and taken the joke to a whole new level. Try as we might, we just can't find any additional information on the internet regarding these four-wheelers, but we can tell that these roller skates are meant for kids judging on the size. That's all well and good, considering that we don't know of too many grown adults who would want to spend very much time rolling around on these bad boys.

As a side note, this is not the first pair of footwear we've seen which was obviously inspired to an automobile. Click here for visual proof.

[Source: Carscoop]

The other day I was sitting at my table with my wife eating dinner at a restaurant. In comes a family with a couple of kids. I'll be honest and admit that I have no children so maybe my tolerance is low. But, I do like kids and I have dogs which can be awfully irritating themselves at times. So, back to the family... they have a pre-teen boy who is skating through the restaurant on those shoes with the wheels in the heels. I don't think those shoes are a big deal on a sidewalk, or at a park or something like that. But, in a restaurant, I think that they are just a little inappropriate. Not so much the shoes themselves, but the act of skating with them is what I'm talking about. Could I just wear my rollerblades into an Olive Garden and not expect somebody to notice? OK, let's move on.

Here is a story about a hacked pair of Heeleys. The goal was to be able to harvest energy from the rolling shoes. The execution includes a small generator and an LCD screen. The rest of the details can be found here. If you insist on wearing these shoes, consider doing some good with them. Or, you know... just don't wear them at all. Whatever. I must be getting old!

[Source: xncroft via Engadget]