Well, folks, leave it to the Japanese to make a more advanced and yet much more terrifying version of every high school freshman’s secret dread, Baby Think It Over.

Today we’re talking about Yotaro, possibly the creepiest robot baby on the face of the Earth, and it’s also designed to be the best simulated baby ever made.  Yotaro is designed to be a baby simulator, featuring a touch-sensitive face and ports from which Yotaro can “cry”, or spew warm water.

It’s not a standalone baby sim just yet, though–it has to be attached to a series of devices to realize its full functionality.  It can wiggle mechanical legs once its “belly” is tickled, and contains a projector under the touch-sensitive face to show the appropriate emotional face on the touch-sensitive faceplate.

It’s creepy and it’s entirely too realistic, in a deranged sort of way.  All I know is, I’m glad I’m out of high school and never have to tackle a simulated baby.  Ever.

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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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Because people insist on having more and more children, more and more products are being developed to help parents deal with these beasts of burden.  Aimed at keeping your baby asleep through the night, this little gadget will activate only when the baby starts to stir and make noise.

Once it does, the crib monitor displays several colored lights and starts bumping womb sounds to coo the baby back to slumber.  Priced at only $15, it seems worth a try given the fact that it has got to be the only product that has official womb sounds.

Wouldn’t those sounds be based on the mother?  There should be a USB attachment to this thing that offer all types of downloadable sounds depending on the type of mother you are.  From serene quilt knitting sounds to the sweet sounds of smoking crack…

[via CraziestGadgets]

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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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I don’t know which I’m more freaked out by: the fact that the Peekaru Fleece Baby Carrier makes the child look like a Teletuby in training or that it resembles an alien exploding from the womb.  Made from 85% recycled fleece and costing $80, the Peekaru Fleece Baby Carrier actually doesn’t includes a baby harness but fits over a carrier.

[Mom4life via Geekologie]

Walking the line between slightly dangerous and down right useful, the Babykeeper let’s you go ‘hands free’, literally.  The baby free device also comes in a high end ‘hip carrier’ version.

They’re available here starting at $40

[Bookofjoe]

The Wingman Carbon Fiber baby seat is the epitome of ironic.  Why so?  Hmmm, let’s think about this.  Racers mod their cars with carbon fiber to lighten the load and decrease lap times.  Speeding + baby = bad.

Ok, so it’s probably a bit more structurally sound than the standard baby seat and you gotta give its designer, Rory Craig, credit for making it 3 stage adjustable for when your tot starts to grow larger.  Before you run out to your high end auto parts store and try to buy it, first you’ll need to help Rory find a backer to make this concept baby seat reality.  It cost him $4,000 to make, so I’d expect it to be at best half or 2/3 of that in a retail environment.

[Ohgizmo]