The ChildMinder Infant-Toddler Elite Pad System from Baby Alert International is designed to do exactly what you think it does: it tells parents that they forgot about the baby in the car. Again. You place the pressure-sensitive pad underneath the cushion of the child safety seat. This works much like the airbag sensor for the passenger seat in a car. Then, you have a wireless key ring that will sound an alarm if it gets more than 15 feet away from the pad. Pick up the baby from his or her seat and the alarm is de-activated. The system costs $69.95.

Somehow, this reminds me of the episode of Friends where Joey and Chandler are taking care of Ben for the day and they forget about the baby on the bus. I wonder if Baby Alert International will come up with a similar solution for public transit.

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When someone breaks into your car the system begins streaming video to a cloud server to which the car is connected over a mobile network and also notifies the driver. Plus, the video can be stored for later, in case you want to use it as a Court proof. Besides the security system function, the app developed by Intel allows Apple and Android users to open the car door, start their car and other basic functions. A real thief may know this, setup a wireless blocker and steal your car anyway. Whether or not the streaming video is recorded and sotred locally before being sent to a cloud is unknown. There’s also the fact that what if you’re in an area with poor or no coverage, video streaming takes huge bandwidth at a high speed. Unless you want a 320×240 clip to upload to youtube and tell your friends, hey look at my car being stolen!

This technology is still a concept and in development, Intel may have answers for these questions when it gets closer to official release.

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