Crying baby? There’s an App for that! (Boo!) It’s called Cry Translator, and it takes the various shouts and screams of your baby and “translates” them to proper language.
The App, which costs $17.99 $29.99 (sorry, got Pounds and Dollars mixed up), is the brainchild of a Spanish doctor.
Anyhow, this all works because researchers have pretty much figured out what a baby’s crying means. Turns out there’s five types of cries—and these cries are the same across all of humanity, from Texas to Japan, from Portugal to Indonesia—and they indicate whether or not the baby is hungry, tired, stressed, bored, or annoyed. I did not know that.
The App claims to be 96 percent accurate.
Anyone in the audience have a baby they can try this on?
via The Sun
Thanks should go to Homer for lending Herb the $2000 to create the baby translator. Oh wait…this is for real…
I bet it’s just a random number generator and doesn’t even care about what’s input.
With all the PR that must be sent to mobile crunch on apps that are actually good, whats the deal with putting on this novelty on there.
Aside from the mass amount of lame softcore porn apps & big companies slowly dominating the store, another issue for indie developers with plausible app is getting the publicity.
If Mobile Crunch wants to comment on such things, maybe they should have an extra section like yahoo news has with “oddly enough”.
Yeah, i have read about this method before and it does make sense, but I can figure it out for myself for $18. That’s ridiculous. $3 maybe.
Need to find a 3G signal for your iPhone? There’s a map for that. Better hope you live in a major population center other than San Francisco, though.
yeah sure I have baby to try it on. anyone in the audience have an iPhone I can download it to?
Of course it doesn’t work. Use your brain. Or failing that read the appalling reviews this app has garnered.
I found the “Baby Translator” for iPhone pretty funny. Def not worth $30, but $2 is ok.