Fetal tweet – when worlds collide

December 12, 2008 | Written by

I’m a PR guy who blogs on digital trends. My wife is a midwife.

Yesterday, our world’s were mashed in the following story from BoingBoing:

Youngest Twitterer EVAR?
Corey Menscher, an ITP student, has designed a kick sensor which monitors his pregnant wife’s belly, and generates a fetal tweet whenever the baby kicks.

Here are some of @kickbee‘s latest tweets:

Here are some photos of the device:

http://portfolio.menscher.com/itp/kickbee/

Can you imagine wearing one of these for the sake of digital trends?

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