Babies. They like white or whitish noise, such as the hairdryer going, or the sound of a car engine. These noises will send them to and keep them asleep.

Babies. Not, when in comfortable cot, crib or basket repose, that manoeuvreable.

You. A proud owner of the Hovercot, which provides white noise from its coal, petrol or pigeon powered engine, along with the smooth ease of movement that comes from resting on a cushion of air.

You, half drunk with lack of sleep, playing Baby Pong in the comfort of your own suburban midden.
-- calum, Oct 03 2009

oo vudge welcome http://cabinessence.cream.org/
[Ian Tindale, Oct 04 2009]

Complete with ear plugs, perhaps?
-- Jinbish, Oct 03 2009


Blessings are showering down upon you, and yours.
-- blissmiss, Oct 03 2009


So... when trying to get Baby asleep, you are literally burning the midnight oil? Well sure, and you can't really put a price on Baby's silence, so I guess the fuel costs are totally worth it. I'd get one for my stepson. Little bugger keeps us awake half the night. For the other half, I put in earplugs.
-- 21 Quest, Oct 03 2009


(+) For baby pong.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Oct 03 2009


I thought this would follow around a habitual sleepwalker and take him back home when he laid down. Not that this would work for me, it could never keep up with the car.
-- Sparkyplugclean, Oct 03 2009


For a moment I was expecting a newly discovered lost episode of Blue Jam to begin.
-- Ian Tindale, Oct 04 2009


Baby Pong. I remember that and it chills me to my feet. It's like old Vietnam veterans and the rank, oily smell of napalm.
-- UnaBubba, Oct 04 2009


// the rank, oily smell of napalm.//

"You smell that ? DO YOU SMELL THAT ? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that .... i love the smell of Napalm in the morning ...."

We consider that this invention could be considerably improved by using a pyrotechnic gas generator as the power source.
-- 8th of 7, Oct 04 2009


But you consider that about most inventions, nicht wahr? ;)
-- pertinax, Oct 05 2009


Is there any reason why it wouldn't be able to be powered by battery or AC electricity? Coal, petrol, and pigeons are all fairly dirty.
-- goldbb, Oct 05 2009


So are babies.
-- egbert, Oct 05 2009


//Is there any reason why it wouldn't be able to be powered by battery or AC electricity?//
None at all - I think that both would be better than coal or petrol (though I have a soft spot for the use of pigeons as a power source). Howsobeit, had I put these eminently sensible power-source suggestions into my posting, the idea would have been torn to raggedy, joyless little bits by the ruthlessly practical and whimsy-deficient element of the massed halfbakers. Reverse pandering, I suppose.
-- calum, Oct 11 2009


//I have a soft spot for the use of pigeons as a power source//
But they're quite difficult to light.
-- AbsintheWithoutLeave, Oct 11 2009



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