Barcelona, Spain – Baffled parents desperate to know exactly why their baby is crying can now get the answer in ten seconds from their mobile phone.
A company in Barcelona has launched an iPhone application which they say will take just that amount of time to figure out what’s up with baby.
Demand has been phenomenal since it was featured on American television this week, said a company spokeswoman.
The Cry Translator ‘involves a revolutionary technology that quickly identifies an infant’s cry, based on one of five emotional or physiological states: hunger, fatigue, annoyance, stress or boredom, ‘ say the creators Pedro Barrera and Luis Meca.
‘These five cries are universal to all babies regardless of culture or language.’
Parents are told to simply place their iPhone about a foot from the crying baby and touch the ‘Start’ button.
The cries are analysed and identified within the 10-second window with a 96 per cent degree of accuracy . Once the cry has been identified, tips to calm the infant are provided.
One parent on the company’s website marveled at how accurately a soiled nappy was detected.
The company, Biloop Technologic, originally developed the technology using a handheld device but it was decided to simply to concentrate on the iPhone application, said the spokeswoman.
A clinical trial at a hospital in Spain with the original device tested 104 children. When the suggestions to calm the child were followed, 96 per cent of the babies stopped crying.
Great for Barcelona but suppose the baby does not cry in Spanish?
The iPhone sure has 100,000 apps, but how many are really useful? Most of them are like this stupid crying app! What a waste of ppls skills.
such garbage. which loser would fall for this.
Homer’s brother did the same thing on the Simpsons a long time ago
Aharon, the article says:
‘These five cries are universal to all babies regardless of culture or language.’
To both Anonymouses: why is this “a waste” or “garbage”? Not all parents have the innate ability to tell which kind of crying is which; I know I can’t always do so, and I’ve got four children B”H.
Hopefully the radiation coming from the phone won’t harm the baby.
You don’t need an iphone to identify a soiled “nappy”.
That’s awesome.
Nu, so what’s the big deal? My wife has the same IPhone app already built in her head…
My wife has this app built in her ear. I think every mother has the ability to hear on the baby’s cry if its 1 of the 5 things.
I have that app in my bb phone. When my 1 year old baby cries for whatever reason & I put down my phone in front of him he stops right away to play with it.
“Once the cry has been identified, tips to calm the infant are provided.”
Baby is hungry,… feed him.
Golly! Why didn’t I think of that? You have to wonder if some of the people that need this app are fit too be parents in the first place.
Did they test how many stopped crying when babies where tended to without the devise?