The first baby gadget – The Motorola BM500 Video Monitor. The most important feature of this baby monitor is that it is digital and wifi friendly. It runs in the 2.4Ghz range but limits itself to a channel of the same bandwidth as a standard wifi channel. The fact it is digital means that video can be easily encrypted making it difficult for other local baby monitors, video senders, or wireless security systems to ‘hack’ in and view the signal. It has night-vision infra red LEDs, a night-light built in, temperature monitor, can play lullabies remotely from the camera in Joseph’s room, and lets us talk back to him to tell him to shut up. Oh yes, and it has a 3.5″ colour LCD screen set in a parent monitor that looks like something taken from the new Star Trek film set. It works pretty well so far, especially the VOX mode which keeps the monitor and speaker off until it detects sound in the room with the camera. I’ll let you know if I change my mind on it though!

And yes, that is Joseph on the screen in the picture above.

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