baby monitors

iBaby Video Helps You Keep An Online Eye On Your Baby
Parents away from home can now take their baby monitors with them.
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Japan ticked off over ‘goo goo gah gah’ radio transmissions
Japan’s Internal Affairs and Communication Ministry is pissed off at the US because baby-monitor chatter from US military families is interfering with official business. Japan houses some 47,000 US forces, many of who reside there with their family— children included. Popular among these soldiers are US-purchased baby monitors. The problem is that this sort of 900-megahertz device directly ...
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Exmovere shows off Exmobaby biosensor pajamas for babies, coming to retail in 2011
Baby monitors have become quite commonplace over the past 20 years or so, and come in many variations. Exmovere (a company that previously produced the wearable Chariot ) has debuted a new type of monitor, however, which are actually part of the baby's pajamas, and which are said to help monitor heart rate, emotional state and behavior. The outfit -- called Exmobaby -- uses the Zigbee wireless ...
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Advocates push for monitors to prompt when kids are left inside hot cars
HOUSTON—Safety advocates are pushing Congress to keep kids safe from hot cars. More kids have died in hot cars than ever before, a record 41 children so far this year. Texas has had the most hot-car deaths in the nation with 11 so far, many in Houston. Just two weeks ago, a two-year-old boy was found dead in a car. It happened in northwest Harris County on Dentwood. Police said his parents had ...
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[news] Gadget Glitch : SmartMeters coming to Monterey County, despite health and financial concerns. - Monterey County ...
Monterey resident Nina Beety describes herself as a sort of prisoner to radiofrequency radiation – the kind emitted by cell phones, baby monitors and WiFi networks. “I am electro-sensitive, and wireless has had a severe impact on my life in terms of mobility,” she says. (She later declines to enter the Weekly’s office because of “microwave RF radiation from the cell tower next door.”) These days ...
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Richmond police corporal helps keep kids off streets
Officer has been involved with youth program he now leads for nearly 30 years
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Hospital swings into action in 'code pink'
Photo for Record Gazette by Traci Kratzer Banning police officer Mike Bennett listens as hospital staff gets information about the abduction “suspect” during a drill held last Thursday at San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital.
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Joey Jersey gives moms the privacy essential to building a bond with a preemie
In a room filled with people coming and going, Shayla Tiner held her tiny daughter against her bare chest without embarrassment.
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Fujitsu announces LifeBook T580 with four-finger multitouch
We haven't spotted this one at IFA yet, but Fujitsu has taken advantage of the show to announce its new LifeBook T580, which it's going so far as to call "slate-beating." That apparently comes from the fact that it's not only a convertible tablet PC, but one with four-finger multitouch. Unfortunately, that's done on a 10.1-inch resistive touchscreen (complete with a stylus that can be tucked ...
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Switching off brain and pain
The new head of the College of Anaesthetists wants to raise the profile of a profession few can spell, let alone understand.
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