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Busy Raising Virtual Baby, Couple Lets Their Real Baby Starve [Sad]
Mar 6th
This is upsetting. A South Korean couple was arrested for starving their baby to death, reportedly only feeding her once a day after marathon sessions at an internet cafe. What was keeping them so busy? Their virtual baby.
Yeah. The couple, who met on the internet (warning sign?), dutifully raised a young girl named Anima in the virtual world of Prius Online, a sort of South Korean Read more ...
Japanese Baby Simulator Is 1,000 Times Creepier Than a Normal Baby [Robots]
Dec 18th
You know what they say: nothing prepares you for parenthood like a creepy stuffed bearchild that cries real tears. Or something like that.
This is Yotaro, the Japanese baby simulator. It looks like a big stuffed animal bear with a baby’s face projected on to it. It’s actually got a lot of complex stuff going on inside it, for better or worse. I just wonder why they didn’t make it look more like a real baby if they were going for Read more ...
Confine Your Baby in a Motorised Suitcase Concept [Concepts]
Dec 2nd
It’s like someone actually thought the adult-sized vehicles in Wall-E were a good idea. Thankfully, like with most things on Yanko Design, this individual baby confinement torture-device is just a concept, but it’s also a scary insight into someone’s mind.
That someone being designer Pouyan Mokhtarani, whose baby buggy contains a LED screen so you can gurgle and babble away at your baby from a distance, lest you pick up diseases from it, and the air purification unit ensures your baby breathes nothing but the cleanest Read more ...
Yoomi Baby Bottle Heats Milk For You, No Cartridges Required [Food]
Nov 26th
Self-heating containers aren’t a new idea, but rarely are they as practical or reusable as the Yoomi baby bottle.
You simply push a button on the bottle and wait 60 seconds. The milk will be heated to the perfect, baby-friendly temperature.
But unlike, say, those self-heating mocha lattes you can buy at the store, the heating element can be “recharged” by tossing it in boiling water. The Read more ...
ShutterBuddy Attacks Baby Photo ADD Issue with Simplicity [Cameras]
Nov 15th
Babies, while cute, can turn ugly at family picture time. Look! A bit of floating dander. Picture ruined. Any little thing can become a distraction. Enter the ingenious—and head-smackingly simple—ShutterBuddy.
While not entirely scientific, the pattern supposedly grabs a baby’s attention and holds it long enough to get a decent photo. ShutterBuddy’s PR team managed to cook up this gem: “The ShutterBuddy™ is a revolutionary new product that uses the science of infant vision development and pattern recognition to capture and hold a baby’s attention so that you can get a great picture.” Making your kid smile on command Read more ...
