Baby Crying? There's an App for that

Wondering why your baby is crying? Check out the Cry Translator, an innovative new piece of software from Biloop Technologies slated to hit the App store next week. It analyzes the pitch, volume, and tone of your babies howl, and “translates” it's findings into one of five categories: hungry, sleepy, stressed, annoyed or bored.

On a grand scale, this strikes me as a baby step (pun intended) towards the development of point of care healthcare diagnostics. On a smaller scale, echoing what the Wired folks said a bit, this really reminds me of the "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes" episode of the Simpsons, where Homer's brother Hank develops and makes a bundle off an invention that translates baby-babbly. Either way pretty cool...

[via Wired's GadgetLab]