@kickbee OMG, this Twitter / baby-tracking hack is so great. Keep on kicking mommy! http://snipr.com/81153

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.

[Via Gadget Review]

Read - Kickbee project page
Read - Kickbee's twitter feed

[Fernando @ Dec 13th 2008 10:39PM]

I lol'd at the article title

[Richard Lai @ Dec 13th 2008 10:56PM]

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!

[Jon Nelson @ Dec 14th 2008 2:05AM]

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.

[Ryan @ Dec 14th 2008 6:46PM]

Wayne Szalinkski..... HA! I always wanted to eat Oatmeal Creme Pies after watching the movie...

[iCandy @ Dec 13th 2008 10:39PM]

Why not generate some free piezo electricity from the unborn while you are at it?

[i.c. weiner @ Dec 14th 2008 12:27AM]

Your pic is some great icandy

[-slycooper_rocker- (lorddshadow the amazing) psn: shahanasalam @ Dec 14th 2008 2:09AM]

haha he gets upranked for his avatars. it works. +1

[dudi @ Dec 14th 2008 5:34AM]

boobies!

[Lia @ Dec 13th 2008 10:41PM]

Read links are backwards.

[Phil @ Dec 13th 2008 10:49PM]

+1

[Connor @ Dec 13th 2008 10:43PM]

Add some TNT to that strap and you are set.

[page87 and counting @ Dec 13th 2008 10:49PM]

A friggin Baby goes under the belt!

-1 for you

(-1 for me, that was my exact thought when I saw the picture)

[Justin @ Dec 14th 2008 1:45AM]

um...terrorist much?

[Smart People Play Tuba @ Dec 14th 2008 9:53AM]

When I first saw the name "Wayne Szalinski" I got it confused with "Ted Kaczynski." Given your comments, either would've been apropos.

[Zac @ Dec 13th 2008 10:48PM]

Take the article title out of context and then try to figure it out.

[Phil @ Dec 13th 2008 10:50PM]

Not that this isn't interesting, but is it just me, or is it a slow day today?

[Soulsaber @ Dec 13th 2008 11:40PM]

Welcome to engadget weekends.

[michael @ Dec 13th 2008 11:35PM]

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!

[Sean @ Dec 13th 2008 10:55PM]

I wouldn't put Bluetooth next to my unborn child. Just in case.

[Mr Yuk @ Dec 14th 2008 10:04AM]

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.

[AlekZander @ Dec 13th 2008 11:17PM]

"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.

[somedude @ Dec 13th 2008 11:24PM]

@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

[um @ Dec 13th 2008 11:32PM]

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!"

[J-Rad @ Dec 13th 2008 11:32PM]

This just in: Dorky "hacked" electric sensor shocks baby, baby now dead

[Gad Get @ Dec 14th 2008 3:05AM]

This just in: get out!

[couchpundit @ Dec 13th 2008 11:51PM]

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.

[Tom @ Dec 13th 2008 11:59PM]

looks like one of those terrorist suicide bomb belts.

[Fernando @ Dec 15th 2008 12:41AM]

That's totally the first thing thought. Shame that's where the mind goes these days.

[Artie Lange @ Dec 14th 2008 1:00AM]

When this kid is born with an extra head, the parents aren't going to think Twitter is so cool anymore.

[Gad Get @ Dec 14th 2008 3:07AM]

extra head = extra brain = twice as smart = epic win!

[XIYL @ Dec 14th 2008 1:10AM]

Holy shit, go look it the twitter. Apparently the baby had a seizure at 03:44AM on Thu, Dec 11.

lol

[tom @ Dec 14th 2008 1:35AM]

Wow. Wanna see you try to get on an airplane with that.

[hustler @ Dec 14th 2008 10:09AM]

What about obese monitor ?? You became to fat the gadget starts to kick your ass and you thing your going into labor.LOL

[hustler @ Dec 14th 2008 10:11AM]

Sorry for the typo.

[yuj @ Dec 14th 2008 11:44AM]

Has anyone seen "Britz"? I hope she doesn't go to airport with this, cause at first I thought this was a shahid belt

[Kyle @ Dec 14th 2008 9:25PM]

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

[Stef @ Dec 15th 2008 10:13AM]

(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...?

[jwalker @ Dec 26th 2008 12:18AM]

Funny post. I expressed a slightly different take on Twitter here: http://bloglabs.net/blog/15-reasons-twitter-must-die