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Art Project Brings Twittering to the Womb

by Terrence O'Brien on December 12, 2008 at 03:15 PM

Art Project Brings Twittering to the Womb
If you're religious, you probably believe that life begins at conception. Bill Hicks once joked that you're not a human till you're in his phone book. BoingBoing reports on a new development that suggests you're a person once you start Twittering.

Leave it to an NYU student to strap a sensor to his pregnant wife's belly that allows for fetal Tweeting. Seriously. Corey Menscher, a student in the Interactive Telecommunications Program, designed a sensor that updates a Twitter account every time the kid kicks.

Menscher explains in the comments on Boing Boing that his project uses a pair of piezo sensors and a low frequency detector to detect in-utero movement and sends data to a laptop via Bluetooth. An application on the laptop analyzes the data and updates the Kickbee Twitter account appropriately.

Most of Tweets are a little repetitive and robotic. But it only makes sense, seeing as how the fetus isn't capable of conscious thought or utilizing language. [From: Boing Boing]

Tags: art, pregnancy, pregnant, twitter

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