Thought Twittering Pets were Bad? Unborn Baby Feed is Worse
Thought Twittering Pets were Bad? Unborn Baby Feed is Worse
Posted 12/15/2008 at 8:43am
| by Paul Lilly
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It's finally possible to piss off your pregnant wife, annoy your Twitter followers, and brand your unborn son as the kid with the dorkiest dad on the block all at the same time. Making it all possible is the Kickbee, the first gadget to enable Twittering from the womb.
"The Kickbee is a wearable device made of a stretchable band and embedded electronics and sensors," creator Corey Menscher wrote on his blog. "Piezo sensors are attached directly to the band, and transmit small but detectable voltages when triggered by movement underneath. An Arduino Mini microcontroller transmits the signals to an accompanying Java application wirelessly via Bluetooth. (a SparkFun BlueSMIRF v2 module that communicates serially with a Macbook Pro)."
The wearable waistband isn't likely to start any new fashion trends, but then again, anyone interested in the concept of unborn Twittering probably isn't into fashion anyway.
Image Credit: Corey Menscher
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Keith E. Whisman
December 16, 2008 at 3:40am
We are not going to have a fourth baby just to try this thing out no matter how cool.
Talcum X
December 15, 2008 at 1:11pm
in a geeky way, but sick.
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