Nuvo's Ritmo Advanced Pregnancy Sound System jacks your baby in to your terrible music taste
By Paul Miller 
posted January 14th 2010 8:59AM
posted January 14th 2010 8:59AM
posted January 14th 2010 8:59AM
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i would teach my baby to like heavy metal, lol
@flett
Dethklok ftw
@216 ahha, that wouldnt have been my first choice
@flett
So you want him/her throwin' up horns on the way out then.
@Smart People Play Tuba
hell yeah
@flett
Or .. to hate it?
@eviltwin yeah right, why would i teach him to hate it
@eviltwin are you suggesting my (future) baby should like rap?
@flett haha , i'm actually surprised to see so many ppl have the exact same though as i did when i read this.... METAL!!! \m/
@flett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pYtxD92SpY
Ting Tings are better than the alternatives, like Michael Jackson say?
I LOL'd @ "belly-firing". Womb-firing might have been better. Or worse. Depending on how you look at it.
You could pull some pretty mean/neat experiments with this contraption.
WHY?! Why does a baby need music? A child in Africa needs food instead.
@maxisma
No, not food, AK-47! :)
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/congo_approves_economic_stimulus
This product is most disturbing.
i find your lack of faith disturbing.
@revoltracers
New method of abortion... Intense sound waves!
Mozart is supposedly very good for developing babys, but its not hardcore enough for my child. Old school Metallica all day...
megadeth and early metallica FTW
dance music... maybe i can counter-act the white-boy moves and lack of rhythm that are in my genes
somebody had fun knocking the bottom out of that.
@chris2
Hey! She's a person ya know!
This will be required in the USA and EU for the compulsory pre-natal conditioning as of 2011, paid from the carbon tax (^_~ )
I saw this on a news program the other day and a Dr. came on saying this is the equivalent of putting your babies head against a speaker because the Amniotic fluid actually amplifies the sound in the womb especially low-pitched sounds.
The tag line for the product should read:
Why wait till your child is a teenager? Damage their hearing before birth!
@Swackhammer1 great comment !
@TikiTeko
Ya, really great comment.
why didn't they put this one into the Crapgadget part?
seriously, what a horrendous invention ...
@RCAQ
+1
A few pre-natal care tips:
No Alcohol, no drugs, no smoking, no roller coasters... and no gimmicky gadgets, ok?
Honestly, I could see this thing causing birth defects. A constant source of a good deal of vibration is not a non-issue. There's a reason you can only get so many ultra-sounds.
@M3 Agree - studies show that a fetus is certainly aware of and impacted by noise in the womb (especially things like Mom's voice), I sure as well wouldn't want to use this thing. Beyond that, the fact that the auditory cortex is developing so dramatically during that 9 months, I would be scared of causing permanent damage.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.. lol..
I thought studies concluded that playing music for a fetus in-utero had no substantial benefits? Some doctors go so far as to imply that the baby may even be experiencing discomfort. I would think hearing mommy's heartbeat would be a far more calming and pleasant experience than some shitty music.
@Tidal
there's always talk-radio, get them brainwashed early.
Wasn't that junk science busted shortly after it got popular?
Why anyone would be motivated to use something like this is beyond me.
@JackNapier
Yea, I bet she was even hotter before she got all fat.
"Ritmo: because forcing a featus to listen to your music shows that you care."
Disconnecting your child that early from nature is a mistake. I wish people would think about their children's experiences when they were raising small children. Maybe we wouldn't have so many jacked up teenagers -- you teenagers reading this are not likely to be among the ones I'm talking about; the ones I'm talking about get straight Fs in high school and eventually drop out.
Now she has a beatbox baby
Hmmm - Didn't the kids on "Wierd Science" wear something just like this on their heads?
You don't know me
You 12yo's who are mentally living in the 50's crack me up.
What the hell.
Seriously? I could really see some parents going overboard with this.
It oughta be a crime to subject a fetus to excessive music. Do we have any idea if it's gonna do damage .. this is the time when the brain and audio processing/interpretation is forming .. things could go out of whack if it starts receiving inputs on a large scale. There may be some (controversial mind you) studies that claim classical music is good for kids in the womb. But what about being subject to it for hours on end? And what if it's crappy music?
@JS What if you make your baby deaf before it's born? Or hard of hearing?
Maybe it should distort the soundwaves so the baby can actually hear it. Don't they have speakers that work underwater?
This seems... like a bad idea