It is quite possible that one day your grandchildren become amazed to know that you survived the cradle without the help of digital technology. In recent years, specialized in technology fairs have brought many new features geared specifically for babies -. Or their parents
Cheap and low power consumption, Bluetooth technology, as well as the ever-present smartphones, They have contributed to this trend. But that’s not all. Young industry entrepreneurs are now parents and the children found the inspiration for new inventions.
Thus emerged the pacifier thermometer, the smartmamadeira, crying analyzer and the brush hightech teeth.
Pacifier Thermometer
Kirstin Hancock was deputy director of a primary school in central London. When her baby was born with a health problem, she and her husband decided to found the Blue Maestro, which specializes in gadgets using Bluetooth technology.
“I measured the temperature never Olivia and all the time one could accurate result, “said Hancock. The difficulty did the inspiration for the Pacifier-i pacifier, containing a thermometer and sends temperature measurements for the smartphone parents.
She warns parents when the baby has a fever and shows whether the remedy is or not taking effect. A sensor can also activate alarms if the child crawls out of a defined area.
Hancock explained that only in recent years Bluetooth technology became more efficient in energy use. According to her, a small battery lasts until the end of the pacifier life. The product should be commercially available in the coming months.
Bottle Smart
Jacques Lépine engineer is the director of the company Slow Control, headquartered in Paris. One day, he tried unsuccessfully to give the bottle to the child. “My wife suddenly appears, and is not very happy with what I’m doing,” Lépine said.
He was holding the bottle at the wrong angle, the baby was getting tired and still hungry. Then, Lépine was to design a bottle that fits your own angle and then sends information about how the baby sucked and when to phone the parents.
The Gigl bottle are already being manufactured in China.
Packer Sleep
The physicist Michael Feigenson and Arabic literature expert Miriam Goldstein live with their three children in Jerusalem. The app they created, SoundSleeper emerged from their “personal needs.”
She plays sounds that help babies to sleep. Among them, rain and noise. – Strangely, vacuum cleaner noise
A device monitors the baby sounds and activates the packer if the child shows signs that is awakening. The device also monitors and records the number of hours the baby slept.
According to its inventors, one of the challenges they faced was to teach the app to differentiate baby noises and the sound of sirens going outside .
Today, the Soundsleeper is among the 100 best-selling apps in the AppStore.
Toothbrush Smart
The inventor Ethan Schur, who works in Grush company based in Silicon Valley, California (USA), decided to give a little help to small children time to brush their teeth.
He and co-founder of the company, Yong Jing Wang, have two young boys who do not like to brush your teeth. Result? The couple ended up with a beautiful account at the dentist.
The solution was “gamificar”, ie create a toothbrush that uses games for the child to visualize brushing and get a score when you finish brushing teeth.
The score is recorded for parents to monitor children’s progress. In one of the games, you can brush monsters that are hiding in their teeth
Schur and Wang had the idea in 2006, but it could be achieved only in 2013, when various technologies were available -. Including , wearable technologies – ie clothes and accessories that incorporate computer technology -., smartphones and cloud computing
The Grush brush was launched in January at the Consumer Electronics Show. She was on the list of ten most interesting products at the fair, according to Wired Magazine.
Crying Analyzer
The Spanish engineer Pedro Monagas, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in Barcelona, he said that when his son was born, cried a lot. Monagas recorded the child’s crying and asked friends to send you cry recordings of their babies.
By analyzing the shape of the sound waves, the engineer found that hunger tears, fatigue, tension, irritation and boredom had different formats.
After performing tests in hospitals in Barcelona, Mexico City and Seoul, Monagas concluded that, based on the appearance of the waves, a computer program was able to distinguish the cause of the disturbance the accuracy with child:. the computer hit margin was 95%
hunger Crying is more energetic, the tired sounds more like groans. The cry of a baby under stress involves short and intense cries, as noted by the engineer
Monagas compares the App WhyCry to an experienced grandmother who helps new parents understand the newborn baby’s cry -. Until one day, parents are able to “decode” the baby’s crying on their own.
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It is foolish to ask him to applications for babies are good or bad, said professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington Dmitri Christakis. For him, compared with an iPad or a television that are watched passively, these apps are distinguished by its interactivity and its slowest pace
The American Academy of Pediatrics now advises parents to minimize -. Or . even eliminate – the time that children under two years pass in front of the screen
However, Christakis argues, this guidance is outdated: What if a child talks to her grandparents who live far away using Skype? – Asks the doctor. . For him, research on technological innovations are lagged
With regard to the best apps directed learning baby, he commented: “It may well be that one day it is shown that they bring some educational benefits – it will to be investigated. “
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