Parental nagging to save kids from fires

While this at first looked like a product destined to fail, the KidSmart smoke alarm may actually do some good. That is, if the statistics on its web page, which claim that children regularly sleep through regular smoke alarms, are accurate. We really don't see how that's possible since usually smoke alarms have some of the loudest and most annoying sounds we've ever heard, but in any case this detector can record your voice as the alarm, along with escape instructions (and here we thought kids knew how to get out of their own homes). Seeing as safety is of lesser concern in our household, we'd probably just program something like "Hey. HEY! Your food's burning. Stop playing video games, get off your ass and deal with that." Our very own electronic nagging parent.
Yay.

[Via TRFJ]