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September 06, 2005
WARNING! Meltdown in 5, 4, 3...
I was sitting here on the couch reading dooce when I hear bleep-bloop. My cell phone communicating to the world, "my battery is low, if you want to continue to have me on but not actually use me, you better plug me in." My response to this sound was to check the display to make sure it was a Low Battery indicator and indeed it was, so I jumped up and plugged it in to get recharged. This got me thinking, wouldn't it be great if kids had a similar sound and display combo that warned you to stop what you are doing immediately and attend to whatever problem was indicated on their display? You just glance at the output - TIRED, STAGE 1, MELTDOWN IN 10 MIN. No having to try everything in your arsenal to figure out what it is that the baby wants. What would be even more great is if you could plug them in like a cell phone when they were tired rather than trying to coax them to sleep. But that might be asking for too much.
Posted by leah at September 6, 2005 02:31 PM