Building nursery 2.0
One of today’s rising tech trends, wearable technology — such as fitness-tracking bracelets, smartwatches, and smartglasses — figured prominently at this January’s Consumer Electronics Show, held in Las Vegas. Among the wearable technology that caught some media attention was a so-called “smart baby monitor” — an innovative, sensor-implanted onesie being commercialized by a team of MIT alumni through their startup, Rest Devices. Dubbed the Mimo kimono, the baby monitor, based on the co-founders’ MIT class projects, is a cotton, infant-sized onesie with integrated sensors that monitor a baby’s breathing and other biometrics, and relay that data to parents or caretakers in real time. Sensors are embedded on two green fabric stripes (resembling a vine with leaves) that run diagonally up the onesie and track respiration. Attached at the end of the “vines” is a mount for a plastic module (resembling a turtle) that captures respiration data, as well as sleeping...
