Tag: BABY

Parents of newborns sometimes devise ingenious MacGyver-esque devices to keep their babies entertained, or to, more importantly, soothe them to sleep. One inventive techie, who goes by the YouTube handle macjonesnz, has created a ridiculously inexpensive self-rocking chair using only his computer and a piece of string. The creative parent, using Ubuntu Linux, wrote a program commanding his ...

After hearing this story, many folks will never again look for jobs on Craigslist. A kind-hearted woman looking to make an extra buck was duped into playing along with a man's fetish. According to a report by Florida's WKMG last month, Janet Schulte, of Melbourne, Florida, answered an ad on the classifieds site to care for a man's older brother who supposedly had a "diminished mental capacity." ...

Providing further evidence that nothing is, in fact, sacred, Lavonne Drummond, a single mother of six in Arkansas, has decided to auction off the right to name her forthcoming baby on eBay. "You can name him annything [sic] like after a loved one, a departed one, or any great boy name!" reads the auction listing. "I have no job or any source of income so my sister pays for my rent, my phone ...

Let's face it. Parenting is a decidedly low-tech job. But that doesn't mean you can't enlist some high-tech help to get you through that exhaustion and nervousness. To cut through the clutter, we've put together a list of gadgets to help parents survive the rough patches and better enjoy the precious moments. ...

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 ...

Who needs press conferences when you've got Twitter? Apparently not Lance Armstrong. The avid Twitter user, who keeps in touch with fans and shares the more mundane details of his life via the social networking service, used it last week to announce the birth of his fourth child, Max. Late Thursday night, Armstrong posted the message, which read: "Wassup, world? My name is Max Armstrong and I ...

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. ...

Embedded video from <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video">CNN Video</a> There is nothing you can't learn how to do with the Internet. We learned how to make red velvet cupcakes online, and, apparently, Google has given the Iranian government some helpful hints in building nuclear weapons. That's why we weren't too surprised by the story of Jordan Peck, a man who helped ...

As we inch ever closer to a future in which our babies are exactly what we want them to be, German car manufacturer Volkswagen has put together a nifty little preview in the form of a promotional Web app. Just upload pictures of yourself and your loved one (or celebrities who you've never met), set the key points (eyes, mouth, nose, etc..), and watch the magic unfold. According to VW's PR ...

It was 60 years ago that the first modern computer -- at least according to some -- was born in a lab in Manchester, England. The Small Scale Experimental Machine, or Baby, as it was affectionately known, was the first truly reprogrammable computer that had an analog for RAM. Unlike its predecessors, the ENIAC and Colossus, Baby could accomplish a variety of tasks by inputting different ...

Chances are you're starting to tire of the whole social networking scene. If so, you're not alone. Finding and connecting with friends was fun at first, but before long the whole experience just turns into kooky pictures of people you still don't keep in touch with. That said, there are still plenty of people out there who are new to the social networking scene -- very, very new. A survey from ...