That wail of a baby! It could send you into a tizzy even if your parenting skills and experience rank the best. A yowl from the tiny one sends you scurrying to feed it, or if that does not work, to cradle it to sleep, or simply walk about, helpless.

Designer Hansook Lee has attempted to actually decode baby cries! Ever thought it possible? It’s makers say it does. How?

BabySays, the device, involves a transmitter that you place in a baby pillow that receives signal from the baby’s bawl and analyzes its pattern.

This transmitter then sends a message to the receiver – which in reality is a bracelet that the parent wears on his or her wrist. Based on the pattern of crying, the transmitter projects words such as hungry, diaper, etc.

This message is accompanied either by the baby’s cry sound, or a silent vibration.

Designer Hansook Lee says in the research preceding the development of this transmitter, that baby cries usually have a general pattern for its needs, which could be hunger, restlessness, sickness, feeling sleepy or tired. And it is this pattern that the device aims at translating into adult language. Try it if you fear going mad at a baby wail.

Via: Yanko Design