In the latest sign of consolidation in the wearables market, Mattel, the toy giant that's home to Barbie and Hot Wheels, has bought Sproutling, the wearable baby monitor company. Sproutling makes an ankle bracelet that tracks a baby's heart rate, skin temperature, motion, and position; it works with a camera, base station and app. Price was not announced, but the Silicon … [Read more...]
Baby Monitors
There's a scene in the movie Terms of Endearment where the relationship between the characters played by Shirley MacLaine and her screen daughter Debra Winger is illustrated by the mother obsessively waking her baby to make sure she was still breathing. I wonder if wearable baby tech is the same thing in more palatable clothing. Babble's got a roundup of baby monitoring … [Read more...]