Parents out there, you know how hard it can be to get a baby’s bottle warmed just right. But now, thanks to the Yoomi bottle, you can get the temperature of a bottle of milk EXACTLY to the right temperature.
The Yoomi bottle takes up to five ounces of milk and heats it to the exact temperature of breast milk, between 32 and 34 degrees Celsius, and it does it in just one minute. It was invented by a husband and wife duo who were desperate for a fast and easy way to heat milk. They’d fussed with microwaves, begged hot water off waiters at restaurants, everything in between. And then, after six years, the self-heating milk bottle was born from a sketch on a bar napkin.
Cold milk flows through heated warmer channels, thus heating the milk inside to the appropriate temperature. Never too hot or too cold again, the unit itself can be recharged fully 100 times before needing to be replaced. Frankly, I call this one a good idea–never again will you accidentally scald a baby with too-hot milk. Plus, they cost around forty bucks with replacement nipples at nine bucks for a two-pack, so here’s a shower gift that can’t miss.
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Cyborg babies.
Okay, so I’m overreacting. But researchers at the University of Delaware have designed the UD1, a robot that will allow disabled babies to navigate their environment. These robots are actually like a power chair that can be operated by a joystick. You may not have thought that babies could operate joysticks, and you wouldn’t be alone. In fact, it was commonly thought that a baby couldn’t operate a joystick until age three, but as it turns out, even a six month old baby can figure out how a joystick can make a toy that is far away move closer.
There have been concerns about babies outgrowing the power chair, and thus making them prohibitively expensive for any family to get for their disabled infant, but U of D researchers are also looking at “kits” for retrofitting the device to get them to better fit the babies. They also want to drop the overall size of the chair to make it more mobile inside buildings.
It’s a pretty awesome concept, no matter how you slice it, and Baby Terminator just might make a good movie. I wonder if Sam Worthington would come back….
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News to me, but apparently a ton of infants kick the bucket due to over heating. So what’s a parent to do? Enter the Babyglow. Much like the once famed Hypercolor t-shirts from the 90s, the Babyglow jumper changes color when and if the infant’s temperature rises above the ideal 98.6 degrees. Developed by a 42 year old dad, who mind you own two bars, came up with the idea while snoozing on the couch and was awakened to a documentary about babies. The Babyglow will hit the streets in October and cost about $33 (22 UK).
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