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ITP Projects As a baby grows inside the womb, pregnant mothers are constantly and acutely
Honeycomb aware of its presence mostly through its movements. With the Kickbee, I intend
Kickbee to extend a baby's minute contact with the world beyond the mother's body by
GeoGenius sensing these movements and transmitting them to digital networks.
The Asterisk File Transfer Protocol
The Peggy Lite-Brite There's something special about pregnant women's bellies that make so many
HeadJack want to touch them. The presence of a child inside the womb is mysterious
ITPedia because we only have visual clues to its presence. Yet we know that if we press
The Naked Pixel our hand and wait patiently, we may be greeted with a physical manifestation of
Infinity Mirrored Room - LEDs Forever its existence by feeling the baby's subtle (and not so subtle) movements inside.
The Java application receives the sensor values and analyzes them. When a kick
event is detected, a Twitter message is posted via the Twitter API. I chose to
use Twitter because it is easy to initiate an SMS message to any mobile phone
when a kick is detected. It also acts as a data log that can be accessed
programmatically for visualization or archiving.
12/13/2008 - Kickbee has been getting a lot of internet attention, and I've
responded to some comments I've been reading on my blog.
12/20/2008 - After a week of press and attention, I've made some additional
comments and observations on my blog.
Kickbee Press:
April 16, 2009 - ABC's Good Morning America piece on "Tweeting During
Surgery"
April 14, 2008 Edition of the New York Times - Putting Twitter’s World to Use
PBS Frontline: Digital Nation website - "Kickbee": texting from the belly
(YouTube link to video)
Twitter CEO Evan Williams references Kickbee in his TED 2009 talk
NYC WPIX News Video (also aired on CNN) - Kickbee: Fetal Kick Detector
NY Daily News - "Twittering from the womb: How soon is too soon to 'tweet'?"
Daily Mail UK - "'I kicked mummy at 11.38': Pregnancy belt allows unborn
babies to open Facebook 'chat-womb'"
Gizmodo - "Kickbee: Now the world can know what your fetus is up to"
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