“Imagine this: You’re sitting in your living room watching the season premiere of ‘Game of Thrones’ when suddenly you get a text message from your 2-month-old daughter saying her diaper needs to be changed,” Michael Franco reports for CNET. “No, she’s not a super-smart infant who learned how to text at birth — but her diaper is pretty smart and it knows when it’s wet and needs your help — even if winter is finally coming right this second.”
“That future that might be possible, thanks to a new invention from Takao Someya and a team of researchers at the University of Tokyo,” Franco reports. “This team, in July 2013, announced in the journal Nature that they’d come up with flexible circuits, thinner than a piece of plastic wrap, that could be implanted in the body to monitor body temperature or blood pressure or implanted on the roof of the mouth to be used as a touch pad for quadriplegics.”
Franco reports, “Now, they’ve applied their research to a truly worthwhile problem — knowing when a diaper is soiled without having to undress the wearer first.”
Read more in the full article here.
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Are you kidding me? So we’re going to not only throw diapers into landfills (we went through our share with our 3 kids), but now we’re going to add precious metals so that we can throw those away too? Because no one is going to peel the tech from a soiled diaper to recycle it.
BTW, what ever happened to using your nose? Your nose knows.
This article is about “adult” diapers, not infant. Yes, I know it says infant, but no one wants to read an article about nursing homes and adult diapers.
Babies are not a problem. Our daughter is 5 months old. And, our theory is that if you keep them too clean babies will never learn or want to learn how to hold it and use the toilet.
Adult diapers are the issue. Having helped out in a nursing home a few times, I can tell you that this technology will be invaluable.
I think this story would be better received if they simply sated the real reason for the R&D into this installed of avoiding the topic.
You might be right on this. One of Japans biggest issues is an aging population and they do a lot of R&D to address the problems associated with that. One that caught my eye a couple of years ago was a Honda project for personal mobility.
http://world.honda.com/U3-X/
Looked risky to me, but interesting.
BTW, what ever happened to using your nose? Your nose knows.
How about what happened to your EARS? Baby likes wallowing in dump and pee? Not on this planet.
I’d rather keep the baby and change the diaper.
If you spend any time at all with your kids you know when to change them.
This is hilarious, but not surprising coming from the country of gadgets.
Total agreement. What childless dummy dinged you down?
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My children had built in sonic alerts for when they needed diaper changing.
All normal children do, in my long experience. Creepy tech.
Exactly. Why put something in their diaper to tell us what we already know.
I’d change the baby for a Corvette.
Try the veal.
So instead of paying 10 dollars for diapers, I get to pay 30 dollars for diapers because I am too lazy to check my childs diaper?
Alternative headline:
Smart Diaper – Is the concept all wet?
I think it would be way cool if the diaper could not only sense the waste but also compost it and let you know when a batch was ready to throw onto your garden. You could grow some vegetables, mash them up, and feed them back to Baby. Just think of the sustainability!
NO!
Screw the rug rat. Keep watching game of thrones. Hahaha….
A diaper that smart should be able to change itself.
I know a few drunks that would benefit from this technology.
An invention about as useful as Anne Frank’s drum kit.
=:~)
This is not for infants. Its for lib assbabies that whine and cry about W or bullshit global warming or want the government to buy their spermacide or who vote for that fuckup Kenyan and now won’t sign up for health care. They need this in their underwear and a red beacon on their head so it goes off when O’Reilly comes on the tube. LOL!
Someone is off their meds. If tangential thinking were in the Olympics, this guy would win the gold medal.
I’m all for making fun of bad tech. But I’m also all for making fun of dickhead like you. What’s NOT to complain about ‘W’, easily the most destructive and oblivious President in USA history, even worse than the treasonous Obama thing.
Do grow a brain, please.
iWatch: “elevated blood pressure and heart rate” + Smart Diaper: “wet panties” + True Love Bra: “snap!” = Happy Valentine’s Day!!
Can’t be all that smart if you’re a dipper.
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This article is about “adult” diapers, not infant. Yes, I know it says infant, but no one wants to read an article about nursing homes and adult diapers.
Babies are not a problem. Our daughter is 5 months old. And, our theory is that if you keep them too clean babies will never learn or want to learn how to hold it and use the toilet.
Adult diapers are the issue. Having helped out in a nursing home a few times, I can tell you that this technology will be invaluable.
I think this story would be better received if they simply sated the real reason for the R&D into this installed of avoiding the topic.
Sorry. “Instead of avoiding the topic”
THAT explanation I can handle. If granny is off in LaLaLand all day and there’s a poo in there, yes you want to know. Good point.
The internet’s sure to run slow if MS get involved with this one – a sh!! detector running on anything by MS would get terribly confused..
Oh, swift technology; we await further modest proposals…
I actually find this to be a SICK scenario:
Imagine this: You’re sitting in your living room watching the season premiere of ‘Game of Thrones’ when suddenly you get a text message from your 2-month-old daughter saying her diaper needs to be changed
Why is this sick?
1) Babies automatically, no prodding required, LET YOU KNOW that under NO UNCERTAIN TERMS they damned well MUST BE CHANGED NOW! If baby isn’t complaining about having a full load, consider the possibility that you baby has died. Probably from neglect.
Who are these people foisting techno-diapers? A gang of bachelors? No baby experience evident.
2) You’re NOT going to know baby requires that change NOW unless you’ve shipped baby off to Africa, or locked it in a sound proof booth at the back of the apartment. Again: No baby experience evident.
∑ = A great idea for ABUSIVE PARENTS who ignore their babies. In which case, I personally suggest hooking up a 50 volt electrode onto these delinquent parents in order to ⚡SHOCK⚡ them into changing baby’s diaper. Apparently, that’s what it takes to force such them to DO THEIR JOB.
My smart nose tells me when its time to change my son’s diaper !