parents already know this but for the uninitiated among you stick around for a
second and I'm going open your mind you know when you put gaming Edition and
some flashing LEDs on something it makes it worth twice as much for some reason
putting four babies on something automatically makes it in order of
magnitude more expensive 8B box of Rags
for cleaning tough spills like paint 25
bucks special Rags with adorable phrases
on the front for cleaning spittle and mushed peas wow a a whole three pack for
only $20 however will you make a profit on that all right so I guess you get the
point parents are used to getting fleeced on anything that someone can
convince them makes life better for their little bundle of joy so when I saw
the mimo smart baby monitor with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi powered by Intel
Edison The Geek and me went OMG it goes on my baby and it has Bluetooth and
freaking Wi-Fi are you freaking kidding me sign me up well the parent and me
went really another $200 for like a
starter pack are you kidding me oh well I guess I could sell my 5960x and get a
Pentium anniversary edition and then I could have this for my baby which by the
way we'll be doing a head-to-head comparison of soon in gaming so make sure you're subscribe for that and then
I clicked the checkout button so here we go is the rest devices memo an amazing
blend of technology and cuteness or is
it another scam to steal copious amounts of money from casuals just like Fitness
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what you get in the starter box a lily pad that charges the monitoring turtle
and acts as a a Wireless Communications basee station for Wi-Fi to interact with
your phone and Bluetooth for the turtle a wall wart and flat green USB cable to
power the lily pad a 3 and 12 mm audio cable that you'll use to program the
lily pad and three cotton machine washable onesies or kimonos in either 0
to 3 3 to 6 or 6 to 12 month sizes and
of course the aforementioned Blu tooth Turtle I guess that's also in there
putting the kimono on is as easy as any other baby clothing so a piece of if
she's not fussing and squirming but otherwise a bit more challenging just
lay her down on it put her arms through the appropriate openings do up the two
buttons on the right side do up the buttons on the left side then pull the
bottom under the diaper and do up those three buttons at the front if you can
I've been using these kimonos for a couple weeks so they've been through the washer and dryer and even though my
little one is a bit tall for her age um my not quite 3mon old um is not really
fitting the 3 to six month onesies very well they're quite snug and I think it
would be a bit better if they were pre-shrunk out of the box to give a better idea of what sizing will be like
so I left the three bottom ones undone in my testing let's move on to the app
which is available for iOS and Android go through the wizard to create an
account and then use the 3 and 1 12 mm cable with the volume turned up to Max
on your phone to connect the lily pad to your home Wi-Fi network and bind your
lily pad and turtle to the phone with the codes on the bottom all of which
worked pretty seamlessly on iOS between
my Droid Turbo and 1 ma8 and xeria Z2 I
borrowed and my wife's Moto G only two of them were able to program the Lily
Pad but the good news is that the share feature makes it easy to add another
device for monitoring that can't program it or just a device that would have
worked but one that belongs to a less tech-savvy parent or caregiver so I used
that to generate a custom link that I emailed to my wife so she could easily
monitor the same turtle on her Android phone next to share is the alert button
which lets you toggle your notifications on iOS and configure them on Android so
you'll be warned about various baby status changes but it didn't work very
well on Android unfortunately overriding
muted system volume so it actually as she stirred a little bit putting when my
wife was putting the baby down to sleep after rocking her it detected a wake
event causing her phone in her pocket to go off and actually wake the baby again
iOS didn't have that problem though then there are three tabs at the bottom the
live monitor tab shows you the position the baby's in monitors her temp
temperature and the temperature of the room that the lily pad is in as well as
letting you listen like a normal baby monitor by pressing the play button but
while the position detection Works reasonably well for Rolling it's pretty
useless for upright detection the and the wakefulness detection is actually
much worse reporting that the baby is asleep when she's doing anything from
fussing on the ground to sitting in a chair to being rocked by yours truly and
then the audio quality for the listen button is so terrible on the monitor
compared to my Cheapo baby monitor from Toys R Us that I wouldn't consider it a
substitute at all the timeline tab is
much less refined and it's kind of clunky looking on Android and lacks the
summary on the bottom that makes it somewhat useful but on iOS it actually
gives you a pretty good look at recent sleeping and waking events on a little
timeline which is a neat idea if you want to monitor baby's sleep schedule to
try to optimize it but the problem is that while sometimes it works the Sleep
monitoring orientation monitoring is so unreliable that I wouldn't count on this
to give me any kind of useful information about my child's activity
levels and obviously won't do anything while the turtle which needs to be
charged every couple of days is not connected to the kimono so it's again
not the kind of thing that I would rely on and the third tab is settings where
you can see some tutorials manag your multiple lily pads and turtles if you
have twins or very heavily invested in this monitoring ecosystem manage the
notifications that get sent and change the monitoring temperature units or at
least on iOS you can do that so at this
point you're probably sitting there thinking gine is cute baby thanks by the
way but that mimo thing looks pretty rubbish for something that you will get
maximum one year of use out of even if
you're willing to keep investing in more onesies and only onesies for 15 bucks a
pop and lonus you're in pretty good spirits for someone who just basically
threw away $200 of your hard earned money as far as I can tell well what's
up and the answer is it's nothing personal against rest devices Inc
specifically or even smart baby monitors in general but I'm actually happy
because this product gave me an opportunity to make a little PSA about
enticing new tech products especially
lifestyle ones from companies that have no proven track record that hopefully
you'll share with others you know when someone is trying to sell you something
based on your insecurities and fears things like fitness trackers that help
you lose weight or baby monitors that give you peace of mind take a moment and
put on your common sense goggles and critical analysis caps and try and cut
through the BS Peace of Mind from what
okay so focusing back in on baby monitors here we know that monitors
don't prevent SIDS so what are you preventing other than your own anxiety
and is Conquering that anxiety just a natural step in the process of learning
to be a parent are we using these gadgets as a crutch are they even a
useful crutch if they don't even work that way well am I really gaining any
Peace of Mind from something that doesn't even appear to monitor the baby correctly I mean I don't know I mean to
be clear I'm not saying that every product is terrible you know like my
battery powered audio baby monitor is super handy just CU it's not always
convenient to room share with the baby it's nice to be able to go about your
day with a thing clipped to your belt loop and know when the baby's waking but
you know and who knows this sproutling ankle bracelet thing might be amazing
but all I'm trying to say is be patient take the time to find some proper
independent media coverage or user reviews of the finished version of this
stuff before pre-ordering like everyone seems to be willing to do or you're
going to keep paying $200 for half-baked products like mimo that in this case
aside from their software just being plain not good enough for a finished
product it just wasn't even that thought out in the first place I mean the turtle
communicates with the lily pad via Bluetooth so the range drops out like
basically outside the room I how is this useful if the baby is asleep in any of
the places that a baby might fall asleep other than her crib like derp what am I
going to do move around the entire station whenever I go anywhere so that I
can track her wakefulness she's awake
and it says she's sleeping I don't know
so I think that's pretty much all I have to say about this guys thanks for
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