The Kickbee is a stretchy band with vibration sensors covered by soft fabric. Baby’s movements are captured by a microcontroller in the Kickbee, which transmits the signals wirelessly to a computer program. The software then analyzes the movement to determine if it was a kick. Kicks can be shared on Twitter or as text messages via Twitter. The Kickbee is especially fun for data fiends who can use the tummy tweets for archiving or creating graphics. And won’t you be jealous if your tweeting fetus has more followers than you!
The Kickbee is part of a larger project Menscher is working on called the Honeycomb, which aims to connect parents that are physically separated through many stages of babyhood. Also included in the project: The Burbee, a burp cloth that transmits the warmth of your little one to Dad through a special heater-equipped button down shirt that he wears; and the Bathbee, which uses a rubber ducky receiver in your tots tub to transmit the scent of baby oil to a children’s lunchbox turned air freshener.
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