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Thought Twittering Pets were Bad? Unborn Baby Feed is Worse
Created 12/15/2008 - 8:43am

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Thought Twittering Pets were Bad? Unborn Baby Feed is Worse

Posted 12/15/08 at 10:43:09 AM  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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TAGS: Software, twitter, web 2.0, consumer electronics, kickbee, sparkfun bluesmirf v2, corey menscher
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Source URL: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/thought_twittering_pets_were_bad_unborn_baby_feed_worse

Links:
[1] http://www.maximumpc.com/user/one4yu2c
[2] http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/13/kickbee-omg-this-twitter-baby-tracking-hack-is-so-great-kee/
[3] http://portfolio.menscher.com/itp/kickbee/
[4] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/beware_twitter_us_intelligence_labels_tweets_a_terrorist_tool
[5] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/texting_and_twittering_while_driving_made_illegal_california
[6] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/twitter_defriends_facebook_possible_merger_off