Monitor Your Baby’s Vitals From Your Smartphone With Owlet Baby Bootie

Being a parent can be a tedious job, especially when checking on your baby’s vitals. Now you can be the overly protective parent you’ve always wanted to be thanks to the Owlet.

The Owlet is a monitor that you place on your baby’s foot and fits similar to a bootie and is both compact and waterproof. Once the Owlet is placed on your child’s foot, all you’ll need to do is launch its app on your iPhone in order to monitor your baby.

The washable baby bootie comes equipped with an accelerometer and four-sensor pulse oximeter to measure several health metrics, including heart rate, oxygen levels, body movement, skin temperature, and overall sleep quality. The creators of the Owlet launched the project on Kickstarter, which was rejected for some unknown reason. This resulted in the creators to launch their own crowd funding site in order to raise the $100,000 to fund production of the device, which they have already exceeded their goal. With 16 days left in the campaign, you can make a pledge of $149 in order to get your own Owlet. That may be a tad on the expensive side, but if you have a baby that is sick often, this could very well save their life.

Source: www.ubergizmo.com, www.cnet.com