SlashGear Japan
The womb is no longer a safe-haven from connectivity. Corey Menscher, wanting to experience the kicks, movements and general in utero activities of his unborn child, developed the Kickbee, a strapped-on set of piezo sensors that monitor the baby and send wireless updates about it to Twitter.
A stretchy band velcros around Corey’s understanding wife, embedded with sensors that react to movement. Also in there is an Arduino to make sense of the inputs and wirelessly transmit them, via Bluetooth, to a nearby MacBook Pro; it’s the Pro that actually sends out the Twitter updates.
Right now the sensors are a little too “touchy”, but that’s being tweaked. Of course, it also relies on Corey’s wife being within Bluetooth range; for future systems, it would make sense to have the Arduino directly update Twitter via a cellphone built into the Kickbee itself.
[via Hack a Day]
5 Responses to “Kickbee lets your unborn child Twitter”
DkMeister December 12, 2008
And updates will be?:
“Kick Kick”
“Yum Organic Protein Syrup From Mum!”
LOL
I’ll get one for my wife, ehh when i get one :P
+1Mom_at_BreastPumpMama December 12, 2008
This is hilarious! Every expectant grandmother will outfit her daughter/daughter-in-law with one!!
+1Stef December 15, 2008
If you’d like similar, but without the electronics try Tweetlet: http://tweetlet.com
You get direct messages to you like “I just opened my eyes for the first time” :-)
+1Kristen Nicole January 10, 2009
Looks uncomfortable! But just goes to show the current cultural obsession of Twitter!
NeutralDo you think such a tool ties in with the possibility of Twitter creating a business model around these types of services?
Chris Davies January 10, 2009
A business model might be quite a leap from something like this – are there really that many pregnant women looking to tweet their baby’s kicks? – but I think there’s definitely a market for something like a mobile Twittering box, based perhaps on a device similar to Bug Labs’ BUG (http://www.slashgear.com/bug-l.....-0829577/), offering an interface for real-world events to instant Twitter updates.
Neutral