Two small funding stories of note: Owlet, which makes an instrumented baby bootie that tracks skin temperature, heart rate, blood ox, and sleep data, has raised $1.85 million in seed funding. R/GA and Techstars, which incubated the company, participated in the round. Owlet, which costs $249, hopes to ship the summer, company officials say. APX Labs, a software company … [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...]