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If you shake your baby to death for ANY reason, you have more problems to worry about than Farmville addiction, but this is a case of Zynga devotion taken to a whole new level. 22 year-old Jacksonsville, Florida resident Alexandra V. Tobias shook her baby to death after the three-month old Dylan Lee Edmondson had been crying during a rousing session of Farmville. Tobias allegedly shook the baby once, then had a cigarette to calm down, and then shook the... Continue reading

In our current state of technological evolution, mobility is playing more and more of a role in our kids’ and our own lives, and the way we communicate with each other. Eric Pape writes about this phenomenon in an article on Slate, in which he describes how his toddler son started to mistake his father’s iPhone as his own mother. Pape describes how showing his son pictures and videos of his mother on the device before he went to bed... Continue reading

Want to ensure that your quickly blossoming fetus develops an ear for They Might Be Giants before they’re even born? The Ritmo Baby Speakers strap right on to your ever-growing belly and forcefully blasts your baby’s soft ear tissue with the sinful sounds of geek rock. Hook a pair of headphones in and share the experience. Some might say that it’s unfair to the baby. I say, screw ‘em, it’s our damn kid, we’ll do what we want. They Might... Continue reading

Straight from the depths of hell, otherwise known as the Machine Perception Laboratory at UCSD, comes Diego-San, the freakishly big-headed one-year-old simulated robot. …Aside from joy, he’s bundled with a high resolution camera and 6-axis accelerometer. And while his coordination is limited to standing from a chair and holding a bottle, Diego-San’s face has 20 moving parts to convey emotion without speaking… Great, another sleepless night. Thanks science. Link (pdf) [via]

Japan’s University of Tsukuba maintains the trend of horrifying child bots with their new Yotaro baby simulator / stuffed bear thing, which aside from causing terror, is supposed to mimic the needs of a baby. The baby’s emotions display via an interactive screen. A water tank supplies realistic tears and an infrared camera picks up your every move, so don’t even try to beat the baby when the scientists aren’t looking.

Next up – Grand Theft Auto: The Early Years. Designer Shi Jinsong creates these magnificent armored and weaponized baby vehicles.

What are babies known for? Mainly pooping and screaming. That’s just the nature of the early human life. And who can blame them? The only problem is that the screaming is almost impossible to decipher through the human year. To us, it’s all just screaming. But apparently there are at least five different types of cries and the Cry Translator iPhone app claims it can distinguish between them all. The Cry Translator helps decode the mysterious yiping of your newborn,... Continue reading

Good luck, big guy! Pay attention, and Oh, don’t rip off anyone’s arms! Why a six-year-old needs a bandoleer we’ll never understand. Link [via]

Inspired by cosplay, these Baby Batman figurines come in your choice of Batman (Classic), Batman (Modern), Joker, Robin, Bat Girl, Cat Woman, Two Face and Mystery. These are pretty adorable in a “I have more toys than you kid” sort of way. Link [via]