Nuvo has just released its $130 Ritmo “Advanced Pregnancy Sound System,” which is a pregnant belly belt composed of four belly-firing speakers, with a built-in iPod pocket, 3.5mm jack and volume-regulating abilities. You could jack in your phone for a bit of long distance baby conversation, but for the most part you know this belt is going to be inundating your child-to-be with Josh Groban and The Ting Tings. And do you really want that on your conscience? There’s video after the break.

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Nuvo’s Ritmo Advanced Pregnancy Sound System jacks your baby in to your terrible music taste originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hey, you want to start annoying your kids with your crummy taste in tunes before they’ve even been born? Fine, go for it. The Lullabelly prenatal music belt — which is like a giant, soft cummerbund with a speaker stuffed into it — is here to help. Just plug your fave PMP into it and you’ll be all set to turn the womb into a super musical fun fest. The speaker has an output of about 60 to 80 decibels, and you can jack in with your earbuds to jam along. Just remember: you’re the one with the volume control, and no matter how good the Tran-Siberian Orchestra sounds to you at 11 am, some people would rather listen to Megadeth. This bad boy comes in two slightly different packages, one which will run you $49.99, the other is $59.99

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Lullabelly prenatal music belt rocks the cradle of love originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Patel Institute of Engineering and Technology’s A.K. Mittra and associates have devised a clever and inexpensive early warning detection system for monitoring the fetal heart rate of that bun months-long in the oven. With two microphones — one placed on the pregnant soon-to-be mother’s abdomen and one inside the bedroom — hooked up to a nearby computer, the two audio feeds are used to estimate and subtract the ambient room noise for a better read on the baby’s vitals just before the woman goes to bed. Converted to a wav file, if anomalies are detected it’s immediately compressed to MP3 and sent to the doctor for further testing. An efficient plan, to be sure, and we can only hope the baby is healthy and hyper-intelligent enough to give normal heartbeats and start recording his or her first LP.

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Two-mic system detects fetal heart rate anomalies, prenatal beat sampling originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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