You'll get a "kick" out of this... Infant Kicks Messages from Womb to Twitter...
Attention Pregnant Moms & Expecting Dads
Forget Basic Tweets... It's Time for Twitter Kicks!
There's something special about pregnant women's bellies that make so many want to touch them, says Corey Menscher. The presence of a child inside the womb is mysterious because we only have visual clues to its presence. Yet we know that if we press our hand and wait patiently, we may be greeted with a physical manifestation of its existence by feeling the baby's subtle (and not so subtle) movements inside.
As an expectant father, Corey felt once-removed from the physical knowledge his wife had of his baby and its development.
With the Kickbee, Corey wanted to create a device that would give me a chance to be aware of our baby's movements. It can also aid in tracking the frequency of fetal movements, which is an important way to monitor the health of the developing child.
The Kickbee is a wearable device made of a stretchable band and embedded electronics and sensors. Piezo sensors are attached directly to the band, and transmit small but detectable voltages when triggered by movement underneath. An Arduino Mini microcontroller transmits the signals to an accompanying Java application wirelessly via Bluetooth.
What better way to really kick this thing up a notch than connecting it to Twitter!
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