Baby

What Doesn’t Make a Good Taser Shield? A One-Year-Old

What’s better than a woman using her baby to shield herself from taser fire? A woman offering up the baby to another man to shield him from taser fire. This brilliant twenty-year-old was arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child. The man who was being shielded by the baby was charged with…

Say Coochycoo to the Steampunk Fetus

What’s more adorable than a robot baby floating around in a steampunk uterus? Lots of things. I just hope these steampunk weirdos don’t gather around in their Victorian garb and start constructing more gross mechanical body parts. [Clockworker via Nerdcore]

Peekaru is a Baby Snuggie

What the hell? Even though we now know that the Snuggie is a lousy waste of $15, the concept is still sound. This Peekaru, which is a kangaroo-like pouch for moms and dads to carry baby around in. An actual mom says that shoving the kid’s head, symbiote style, inside the pouch isn’t enough—a sun…

Make This Please: Baby Slippers

Someone made this apparently one-off set of baby slippers back at Burning Man 2007, but we want these as a real product. Seriously, these are better than bunny slippers. [Flickr Credit via DC via CG]

One Year-Old Baby Will Kick Your Ass At Gaming, Melt Your Heart In the Process

Melodie is one year old, can name more game characters than most people, likes chocolate cookies, and is the cutest thing ever. If you ask me, she should become the next Kotaku editor. [GoNintendo]

Kickbee: Now the World Can Know What Your Fetus is Up To

Corey Menscher, in a fit of fatherly devotion, constructed a device that notifies him when his unborn baby kicks inside the womb. Even better, he’s training his kid to post on Twitter right from conception. The Kickbee is a wearable device made of elastic and a whole mess of sensors and electronics. Piezo sensors detect…

Fetus Flash Drive Offends Everyone

You know, all of the jokes that come to mind about this fetus USB flash drive—complete with a detailed how-to process to make your own—I really can’t make them. But I’m pretty sure that it manages to be offensive to both pro-baby killers and anti-women’s-righters all by its lonesome, miniscule self without my help, even…

Wing Man Baby Seat: Carbon Fiber Gets Knocked Up

For anyone with a child, that bond you feel with your offspring is the most powerful in nature. And your protective instincts demand the absolute best in child safety, like this $4,000 Wing Man baby seat prototype. It’s constructed of strong, lightweight carbon fiber—the same material used in performance cars and airplanes across the world—that…

Retromodo: ‘Sun Lamp Held In Hand Brands Babies’

Modern Mechanix found this 1938 issue of Popular Science with a really, really fun baby branding gadget designed to make sure hospital mixups were a thing of the past. Did it work? Oh, I’m sure it did. Did it eliminate hospital baby mixups? No, because somebody somewhere along the line though it was a bad…

Metrolla Strolla: Baby Stroller Gets Some Height Added

The stroller has undergone a radical redesign with this concept by designers Dan Levin and Evan Garrett, which places the baby passenger at almost normal eye-height. The design has sprung legs for ride comfort, and the seat unplugs so you can mount it easily on your bike too. Seems like a great idea, and frees…

Computer Learns Baby Talk, Pacifies Programmers

Stanford researchers have developed a program that can, at a most basic level, learn language. In studying whether the brain is hard-wired with preset sounds or if it acquires the basics of speech dynamically, a computer program was designed to learn speech. After listening to hours of Japanese and English mother-to-baby talk, the computer was…

One-Year-Old Shows Us How to Flick Through Photos on an iPhone

Some people may think that their child’s privacy is too precious, but other’s don’t give a damn. Here’s Chad the dad and Trey the bay-bay giving an iPhone master class. He’s good. See how he flicks through his dad’s photos with insouciant ease after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-so-simple-even-a-two-year-old-can-use-it-278661 Let’s have Trey on next year’s Keynote at…

iPhone So Simple Even a Two-Year-Old Can Use It

Here’s definitive proof that Apple made the iPhone the easiest cellphone to use in the planet. Watch a very cute child navigating her way round the jesusPhone with no difficulty whatsoever. No, it’s not Steve (although he’s kind of cute too). The video is after the jump. She’s got Photos (“New Bay-bee!”) and iTunes (“Cole-play!”)…

This is What We’ve Become: Woman Pushes Baby on Segway

We hope you’re proud of yourselves. Update: See the explanation here. https://jalopnik.com/i-am-very-sorry-segway-stroller-lady-5602600 Livejournal [via Crunchgear]

Wii Babies: 22-Month Old Baby Kicking Ass at Wii Tennis

If that Wii Baby with his Joker-like laugh impressed you, take a look at this 22-month-old baby rocking the pants off Wii tennis. He doesn’t just swing the Wiimote randomly and hope he gets lucky, he’s actually timing his strokes correctly! We’re not sure when we started gaming first—we think it was between the ages…

Q&A With the Laughing Wii Baby

Q: Thanks for taking the time to speak with us, Wii Baby. A: Hahahahahaha. Q: So you really love the Wii? What is it about Wii Golf that really tickles you? A: Ahahahahahahhahaha Q: What’s your favorite game for the Wii besides Golf? A: Dada! Q: Dada? A: Ahahahahahaha. Q: And finally, goo goo gaa…

Philips DECT Baby Monitor is Interference Free

We’ve covered many DECT-capable cordless phones and Skype phones here, whose main attraction is non-interference with the already crowded 2.4 GHz spectrum. David P. over at Boing Boing discovered that the benefits of DECT’s (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications) 1.9 GHz extends to baby monitors as well, when he found that all standard baby monitors use…

Baby Accidentally Takes Joyride Through Airport X-Ray Machine

Babykeeper Holds Baby As You Poop

Not a gadget in terms of being powered by electricity, this Babykeeper harness keeps your baby safe while you use the facilities at ball games, strip clubs, and crack houses. Hold on Tommy, daddy’s gotta drop a deuce! Who’s a good little boy, who’s a good *uuuuuughn* little boy! Presumably the baby faces inside the…

The Weirdest PS3 Commercial Yet

The only way we’d be more confused is if a shiny bald-headed man jumped out at the end and shouted SEGA! Seriously, Sony? Find a new ad agency to do these. If you thought this PS3 ad was weird. You ain’t seen nothin. https://gizmodo.com/first-ps3-tv-ad-debuts-is-really-weird-207786