Everything goes down
on Twitter these days, (memes happen, people,
memes!) and now there's another kid on the scene, literally. Lil' @kickbee is hitting us from the womb, thanks to his / her nerdy father. Kickbee Sr. wrapped his expecting wife's belly with some piezo sensors to detect baby kicks, with an Arduino Mini transmitting the info via Bluetooth to a MacBook Pro, which beams the info on up to Twitter, making him officially the dorkiest dad since Wayne Szalinski. Next step for this little A-lister? Gadget blogging.
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Read - Kickbee project page
Read - Kickbee's twitter feed
posted Dec 13th 2008 10:32PM
I lol'd at the article title
I follow Engadget on Twitter and since they post just titles of their articles (with link, of course), I actually thought they were tweeting someone for once!
I thought either someone was playing a prank with the title, or they just button mashed the keyboard and came out with something half-coherent.
Wayne Szalinkski..... HA! I always wanted to eat Oatmeal Creme Pies after watching the movie...
Why not generate some free piezo electricity from the unborn while you are at it?
Your pic is some great icandy
haha he gets upranked for his avatars. it works. +1
boobies!
Read links are backwards.
+1
Add some TNT to that strap and you are set.
A friggin Baby goes under the belt!
-1 for you
(-1 for me, that was my exact thought when I saw the picture)
um...terrorist much?
When I first saw the name "Wayne Szalinski" I got it confused with "Ted Kaczynski." Given your comments, either would've been apropos.
Take the article title out of context and then try to figure it out.
Not that this isn't interesting, but is it just me, or is it a slow day today?
Welcome to engadget weekends.
Heh. I wonder what would happen if some pregnant woman wore this in Boston's Airport? Remember that MIT student who wore a breadboard on a t-shirt as "wearable art"? She got so close to being blown away by security it wasn't funny.
I'd want to have a camera ready for the police spackdown that would be sure to happen. Might be fun!
I wouldn't put Bluetooth next to my unborn child. Just in case.
Reckless at a minimum and potentially criminal at worst. As posted repeatedly here, the effects of short range RF and being studied. Though there is no evidence yet of heath issues, the worst case scenario is exposing a developing fetus to RF. Hopefully the mother's instincts will kick in here and end it.
"Honey, I don't believe you when you say you can feel the kid kicking, because you're a woman. I'm going to rig up a machine to do it instead."
Helooooooo, divorce.
@kickbee maker here...
I got a chuckle from this. Nice "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" reference. Thanks, Engadget! And by the way, I prefer "geekiest" dad thankyouverymuch.
@coreymenscher
What's that geeky movie where the dad rigged a gadget to show when his wife went into labor
*alarm* "honey, you're in labor!"
This just in: Dorky "hacked" electric sensor shocks baby, baby now dead
This just in: get out!
I showed this to my darling wife, mother of my 2 children. Her immediate dry sarcastic comment was, "Wow. That's snazzy."
I nearly peed myself.
looks like one of those terrorist suicide bomb belts.
That's totally the first thing thought. Shame that's where the mind goes these days.
When this kid is born with an extra head, the parents aren't going to think Twitter is so cool anymore.
extra head = extra brain = twice as smart = epic win!
Holy shit, go look it the twitter. Apparently the baby had a seizure at 03:44AM on Thu, Dec 11.
lol
Wow. Wanna see you try to get on an airplane with that.
What about obese monitor ?? You became to fat the gadget starts to kick your ass and you thing your going into labor.LOL
Sorry for the typo.
Has anyone seen "Britz"? I hope she doesn't go to airport with this, cause at first I thought this was a shahid belt
Wow I'm being very active! I kicked Mommy 258 times at 03:44AM on Thu, Dec 11! 12:45 AM Dec 11th from web
Actually mommy and daddy are getting hot and steamy under the covers
(Plug) I had a similar idea during our pregnancy, and made Tweetlet - twitter updates to tell you how your baby is doing during pregnancy. http://tweetlet.com
You put in your due date and log in to twitter. Then you get direct messages like "I've got fingernails", "I'm about four inches long now" each day. Quite nice for a little reminder of how your baby is doing...?
Funny post. I expressed a slightly different take on Twitter here: http://bloglabs.net/blog/15-reasons-twitter-must-die