Baby Tech!

Various apps and wearable gadgets have been developed to help parents with their children.

18:44 21 April 2015

Toddler tech has been growing and growing with more and more apps and gadgets being developed every year to provide solutions to problems that parents usually encounter. 

 

Kirstin Hancock, who was having difficulty getting her daughter’s temperature accurately, has developed Blue Maestro, specialising in Bluetooth-enabled gadgets. 

"I was always taking Olivia's temperature, and could never get an accurate reading in her mouth or in her ear," she says.

"So in frustration one day I threw up my hands, and said, I need a pacifier that can do this."

 

The problem was solved by Pacif-I, a baby dummy containing thermometer and sends readings to a parent’s smartphone by Bluetooth. 

 

Another smart innovation was a Bluetooth-enabled toothbrush with games to visualize brushing; it gives a score when the child finishes. The recordings are then uploaded to the cloud allowing parents to check progress. 

 

Inventor Ethan Schur and co-founder Dr Yong-Jing Wang held a crowdfunding campaign last year on Indiegogo and launched Grush in January at the Consumer Electronics Show. The invention was called by Wired Magazine as one of the ten things most worth seeing.