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Kickbee.jpgI've seen a lot of parents putting up pages for their newborn babies in social networking web sites, but this one takes the cake - imagine fetuses updating their own page straight from the womb. The Kickbee pregnancy belt has embedded sensors all over it to track and feel every movement of the fetus. Whenever the belt feels vibrations, it generates and sends electric currents to the computer via Bluetooth connection. These currents are then translated into entries posted directly to a web site which, in this instance, is Twitter.

According to Daily Mail, posts could be something like "I kicked mummy at 11:38am." Next generations of the Kickbee would be developed to send automatic updates from the womb to Facebook. The Kickbee pregnancy belt was created by Corey Menscher, a PhD student from New York University who got inspired by his wife's pregnancy. Aside from being able to introduce humans to social networking on the web even before they see light, the belt could be used as a monitor for the baby's condition upon further development.



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