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Smart Baby-Trackers Mostly Unnecessary, Say US Doctors (bbc.com)
A group of pediatricians has called for smart health-trackers, designed to monitor babies while they sleep, to be regulated by the same US body that oversees other medical equipment. An anonymous reader shares a BBC report: The monitors, which often take the form of sensors fitted to clothing or nappies, measure signs such as heart rate and breathing during sleep. The data is shared with a phone app. The doctors spoke out after seeing babies being brought to A&E after smart-monitor false alarms. The team from the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia said the devices should be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). One brand they mentioned was Owlet, which sells a $250 monitor that tracks sleeping babies' heart rates and oxygen levels via a sensor concealed inside his or her sock. It says on its website that it has already submitted a medical version to the FDA for approval. "For most healthy babies there is not a role for home monitoring at all," said neonatologist Dr Elizabeth Foglia, one of the authors of the opinion piece published by the American Medical Association journal Jamanet.
and you kid will die without you knowing and you will feel guilty
run out and buy it now before your baby dies
Did you try turning the baby off and then on again?
Have gnu, will travel.
Look. These "Smart Babies" are dangerous. Regular babies will cry all night and keep their parents up, but when you combine this lack of diurnal schedule with the cunning intelligence of "Smart Babies" you'll have infants crawling out of bed, hatching plots in the middle of the night! Looking for the cookie jar, wandering outside, making off with the silver! Stealing the breath of the family cat!
Smart babies must be monitored! Won't somebody think of the babies?!
-- "Oh. This guy again."