Tag: BABY

A Japanese researcher has created a robot that is designed to treat depression in seniors with dementia. Masayoshi Kano's Babyloid, which was inspired by the looks of a baby beluga whale, measuers 17 inches long and weighs about five pounds. It can move its stubby arms, round head, thin mouth and beady eyes while making baby noises. The bot's faces features LEDs that help to mimic human ...

A woman accused of kidnapping an infant from a hospital more than 20 years ago has turned herself over to the authorities. The suspect, Ann Pettway, allegedly stole the young girl from a New York hospital back in 1987, and raised her as her own. A warrant was issued for her arrest on Friday, in North Carolina, and she was finally taken into custody on Sunday, in Connecticut. A source told CNN that ...

Share A woman in Colorado has been arrested after telling police that she was busy on Facebook while her one-year-old son was drowning in a bathtub. The mother, 34-year-old Shannon Johnson, reportedly told authorities that she was playing a Facebook game called 'Cafe World,' browsing through her news feed, and sharing videos around the time that her son was in the tub one day last September. ...

A metal robot may not look like a human being, but as long as it acts like one, babies won't be able to tell the difference. That's the conclusion that researchers at University of Washington reached, after studying the ways 18 -month-year-old babies interact with humanoid bots. To observe the baby-bot dynamic, scientists placed each child in a room with a remote-controlled robot along with ...

Two-and-a-half year old Grace Freeman was recently diagnosed with a retinoblastoma -- a cancer of the eye that, if left untreated, could've easily killed her. Luckily, Grace's doctors detected the cancer before it could spread to other parts of her small body, and saved her life. But if it weren't for Facebook (and one, very vigilant friend), things could've been tragically different. The Daily ...

Deal-hunting baby-makers, listen up! The wacky and incrementally expanding discount site Groupon has just launched a new dating service called Grouspawn, with an insane marketing ploy. If you can prove that you used a Groupon coupon on your first date, and that said date eventually resulted in a child, you could get a $60,000 grant for the little one's college tuition. Groupon CEO Andrew Mason ...

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 ...

Share [Edit. Note: Before you tell a couple of dweebs that we know diddly about babies, we want to point out: the author of this article got up close and personal with this tech. A new dad, enjoy his geek-fathering experience... and watch out for the spittle.] Technology and medical advancements have certainly revolutionized the way people approach pregnancy and childbirth. Just 50 years ...

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 ...

At first, nine months seems like an eternity. That human gestational period ostensibly provides more than enough time to accumulate all of the necessary parenting accoutrement, but, as is life, those looming months disappear almost instantly. As parenting classes are completed and due dates draw near, certain harried and procrastinating partners may need to consult experts -- or at least ...

We've seen some crazy baby tech in the past, including a Linux-powered baby rocker and a supposed cry translator. We've even seen an MP3 player belt that promised to help you literally rock your baby to sleep, and apparently it was such a breakout success that it inspired the creation of a second, the the Nuvo Ritmo. It too is a speaker belt that connects to your MP3 player. This one, however, ...

Here at Switched, we're all about parents being as prepared as possible before their little bundle of joy arrives. But this latest robotic baby simulator from Japan's University of Tsukuba is just too strange for us to endorse, even if it's effective. According to designboom, "Yotaro" features an interactive screen for a face, which not only displays different emotions and reacts to actions and ...

While this isn't the first time a frantic father has brought new life into the world with the Web's help, a baby is always cause for celebration, especially from the benevolent hands of Google. Leroy Smith, from Leytonstone, East London, was at his wit's end when wife Emma started experiencing contractions after their midwife left for the day. Since they wanted a home birth, the 29-year-old ...

Babies -- think of them as the last frontier in the Twitterverse. After all, we've already got a tweeting beer tap and houseplants even have a voice on Twitter. So it's only natural that babies would be next in line to speak their minds 140 characters at a time, right? According to Mashable, a team of Belgian researchers have integrated Twitter into a plastic Fisher Price-like toy, which ...

It's never too early to set off on the road to Overbearing Parenthood. But before you buy the tennis racquet, book the violin lessons, download college applications, or even order the complete 'Baby Einstein' collection, you might want to start with something even more basic, intuitive, and natural... like blasting music into your unborn baby's brain. A new product called the Lullabelly allows ...