Tag: BABIES

Babies born today aren't just born into the age of Facebook, they're born on Facebook. According to a new study conducted by Research Now, 92-percent of all American babies have some form of online presence by the time they reach the age of two. After surveying 2,200 mothers of young children in the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, and several other developed countries, researchers discovered that ...

New parents may be a notoriously finicky bunch, but their paranoia is usually well founded. With all the horror stories of babies dying from SIDS, sleep apnea, and negligent babysitters, it's no wonder that so many mamas and papas treat their infants like fabergé eggs. Soon, though, the hyper vigilant parents of the world may be able to sleep a little easier, thanks to a new set of pajamas ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. Congratulations ...

Now that the gadget hordes have conquered the task of translating dogs' barks into something human understand, it's time to move on to that other frustrating non-speaker in your life, your baby. The Why Cry Baby Analyzer (which we can only assume was inspired by a particular 'Simpsons' episode) uses something called "advanced frequency analysis technology" to translate all that crying and ...

Advances in technology have enabled humanity to achieve all sorts of amazing feats (landing on the moon, debasing oneself on YouTube, etc). Despite our long list of collective accomplishments, a new trick that's being employed by tech savvy parents might just take the cake. According to USA Today, creative (or desperate) parents are transforming their cell phones into mobile-baby-hushers. ...

In the ever-expanding iPhone app store, there are some helpful, fun and downright awesome sources of information and entertainment. That said, every so often an app shows up that makes us wonder what the hell the people at Apple were thinking (if they were, in fact, thinking when they approved it). We are speaking, of course, about the now infamous 'Baby Shaker' app that went on sale Monday, ...

Social networks are becoming a bit passe. Sure, MySpace and Facebook are still growing, but that growth is slowing, despite the two networks still having half the world's Internet users out there to recruit. That the FBI and CIA are getting in on the action shows how mainstream (and tired) friending has become. Even so, according to the New York Times, it looks like social-networking still has a ...