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I have a horrid vision of possible future Pavlovian responses... |
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//given into natures urges//? no self control, these modern babies. |
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I read about something like this, years ago in an electronics magazine. It's fairly simple to run two wires through a diaper, and urine conducts electricity. But that article may have been a joke. |
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This would be very easy to make these days, and perfectly safe for the wee tot's botty. Why it isn't being done? I think the diaper makers tend to focus on absorbing everything so the diaper can wait for the parent's convenience. Telling the parent they need to change a nappy *now* wouldn't be as popular with the slackers. |
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Babies usually come with a nappy alert system preinstalled. Nerve endings implanted in the baby's bottom send signals to the "brain" which uses the baby's vocal chords as a sort of klaxon to alert the parent. |
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This idea is largely unnecessary and just an excuse to put some technology into something that works fine already. [+] |
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Some diapers have a wet indicator that changes color when wet. |
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Underpants have been rigged with an alarm that wakes one up when moisture appears, or so I'm told. (OK, I wet the bed when I was a kid, I admit it. That invention cured me) |
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Music might actually help me explain to my 2 year old how to pee on the potty. She doesn't make the connection, which is fine at her age, but a non-judgemental teaching aid like this would help. |
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Also, [baconbrain], I recently saw an ad for a new diaper that has a "sensation strip" or something that lets the child feel some of the moisture, but still without leaking. They made them so absorbant they had to engineer a way to teach kids when they're wet. |
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Patented in 1980 (linky). |
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I think I'd rather not know that I had a kid with a nappie full of piss, at 3am. |
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It's 7am here, thank you. |
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So, are you planning something
reuseable which you have to fish out of
the pile of crap and wash before re-
using? Or has the disposability of
electronics reached new lows? |
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The real need is for a poop detector. The kidlings'll go all day with one of those if you let 'em. (sometimes you need to get them off quick if they are having irritating poop, to avoid a rash) |
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[OK, TMI, but it's a diaper idea, and you need the facts] |
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[UnaBubba] don't use one of these at night. |
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I was really imagining something disposable, the cost of these inserts are negligible. But thinking it through more, you’d have to have an off switch or you’d be left with a stinking pile of musical mayhem. |
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