Patel Institute of Engineering and Technology's A.K. Mittra and associates have devised a clever and inexpensive early warning detection system for monitoring the fetal heart rate of that bun months-long in the oven. With two microphones -- one placed on the
pregnant soon-to-be mother's abdomen and one inside the bedroom -- hooked up to a nearby computer, the two audio feeds are used to estimate and subtract the ambient room noise for a better read on the baby's vitals just before the woman goes to bed. Converted to a wav file, if anomalies are detected it's immediately compressed to MP3 and sent to the doctor for further testing. An efficient plan, to be sure, and we can only hope the baby is healthy
and hyper-intelligent enough to give normal heartbeats and start recording his or her first LP.
posted Aug 30th 2009 4:59PM
Disturbing picture...
A disturbing idea.
This is going to have so many false positives as to be damn-near useless. The slightest movement can set a babies heart rate into a temporarily "abnormal" rate, I hate to think of all the poor women who will have panic attacks over normal variations in their babies rythym.
I hope they run some kind of trial validating its use at home for normal pregnancies. It seems to me that this is about as useful as a home ultrasound: that is, not at all useful and probably extremely dangerous.
Is that a man?
That's what I was wondering...
Daddy was knocked up by a beer keg.
Agreed...lots of stomach hair on that sasquatch.
wow, my comment got removed....I am surprised engadget.
An increase in various hormones during pregnancy often causes excessive hair growth.
@iQueefed
Ya, It's a shemale.
i thought it was jpeg compression artifacts.
It's Randy from Trailer Park Boys!!!
Hairy.
I like to think of it as fuzz.
It could just be compression artifacts.... I hope so.
Oh my god...
Arnold Schwarzenegger's vision is complete.
Prenatal Beat Sampling?
Damn, those baby beats are fly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNwxv6TgsuU#t=14
for some strange reason i knew you were going to post that link. too much time on the internet for me...snap.
Let me just update my ipod setlist with these heartbeat mp3s.....lol
The human beat box 2010!!
PS3 want > natal you xbots. hurr hurrr xbox failure rate hurrrr hurr m$ durrr
WTF? Are you a PS3 fanboy bot? Do you even have an idea of what this article is about?
@TJ just a badly done pun.
If the PS3 fanbots can make Natal puns out of prenatal, then are Pre puns fair game also?
I think you guys fail at sarcasm.
Haikibitsu
Yes, they do.
I think its a man also, just look at that hairy stomach.
Hey! Were you stalking me, Ross?!
Who me? **confused**
Don't act surprised! I knew all along about you! >:(
Dude, I hope you were being sarcastic, cause I have no idea what you're on about :p
Of course I am! ;) The belly on the picture looks like a male one, so... ;)
"Patel Institute of Engineering and Technology?"
Does Nilay have an entire INSTITUTE named after him??
you will be surprised how many patels there are in the world
All Patels & Kumars have been issued notices by the US Embassy to STOP calling them for application forms. The H1N1 is NOT a visa.
Well.... At least she is married... Right!?!?
Oh GOSH... If you mess with your screen brightness, *POWERSTRIP* you can see 2 really long hairs under her thumb.... 0-:
That ring is on her middle finger. So she's either not married, or she's making a statement about her marriage (or about the moron who got her into this position).
Or she is pregnant and she has taken on fluid/ gained weight and thus her ring doesn't fit on her normal ring finger. Just saying there is a possibility she is in fact married and not symbolically flipping it to her (ex)boyfriend.
>Converted to a wav file, if anomalies are detected it's immediately compressed to MP3 and sent to the doctor for further testing.
>compressed to MP3
>MP3
I wouldn't want a diagnosis on a lossy compression format.
Audiophiles Unite!
Some Grado Headphones better come with this thing or else I am going to be ticked...
Audiophiles unite!
And splurge!
It's nice to see engadget posting gadgets that The majority of people on here probably don't give a shit about.
And yet have some sort of half assed opinion anyways.
The miracle of child birth! I bet that baby is saying "hi world, here I come!"
Just super :)
Two Words: MAN-HAIR
MY EYES!!! THEY BURN!
I don't know what kind of freaky, hairless men you guys have been fooling around with, but that's most certainly a pregnant woman. Most normal women have hair on their bodies. Most of them take care of the "problem" through waxing, shaving, etc., but when pregnant, some of the niceties of personal grooming get left by the wayside due to decreased mobility and other factors.
wtf? that's a man, baby
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