Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Automated Robot Crib Rocker Deathmatch
In the left corner we have British-made Easidream, a baby sleep aid soothing system that “helps ease the transition from womb to world.”
It’s a slim ventilated pneumatic platform you slip under your crib mattress that rocks your baby from head-to-toe or from side-to-side. Air tubing connects the platform to a control unit through which you set a 45-minute timer and two speed settings. The faster speed works “in time with mum’s resting heartbeat” and the slower setting is for weening your Easidream-addicted baby off its succulent robot mother at some unspecified date in the future.
Sorry, the company’s position is that “it is highly unlikely that your baby will become hooked on the soothing system.”
Easidream would not be complete without a plush sheep that straps to the crib railing, playing one of four soothing heartbeat sound combinations. Meanwhile, the sheep glows a warm pink for 20 minutes, just like the bioluminescent uterus your baby enjoyed before you ejected him from your womb.
All this can be yours for £249 ($354 US), coming soon to a gadget-crazy North American country near you.
In the right corner we have the Aussie-made Lullabub Cot Rocker, essentially stilts for your baby crib that “gently create motion automatically in a harmonic rhythm to naturally soothe and settle babies to sleep.”
Lullabub is comprised of four fancy cup-looking thingies that elevate the crib and rock it, with independent suspension, on a timer. The first simulated motion recreates the tranquility of a mother’s womb before the bright light and the squeezing and the screaming, and oh God, all the screaming, stop squeezing my brain! The device can also simulate a mother’s heartbeat, driving in a car to Burger King and drifting aimlessly like an old man on the sea.
In lieu of an plush uterus sheep, Lullabub gives you a remote control and a night light to ward off dingos. All this can be yours for only $199 US. Alternately, rent one for $1.10 AUD per day plus plane fare to and from Australia to pick up and return the Lullabub. (It’s a small price to pay for sleepy bliss, isn’t it? Plus your kid will sleep both ways on the plane.)
What say you Thinga-readers? Which of these amazing crib assistance devices will crush the competition?
Comments
11 Responses to “Automated Robot Crib Rocker Deathmatch”
“it is highly unlikely that your baby will become hooked on the soothing system.”
is possibly code for “Babies HATE it.”
The crib rocker on the other hand might slow down spiders attempting to scale the crib…or it might make an interesting experiment (dinner table a la Magic Fingers).
August 20th, 2009 at 4:52 am
Awwww the first one wins, hands down, for having Timmy from Shaun the Sheep. Baby will definitely become hooked on the cuteness.
August 20th, 2009 at 5:17 am
I doubt the Easidream would work well in a crib with a snug fitting mattress. The shadows from the bars in the picture you posted show a sizable gap between the mattress & crib. Scary.
And what if one of the Cot Rocker’s feet failed?
Putting my paranoia & opinions on physically comforting distressed babies aside, my money is on the Easidream. The sheep IS cute.
August 20th, 2009 at 7:15 am
Yea, maybe I’m too close minded, but I think I’ll stick with my method… sleeping next to mom.
I am a fan of sound machines as I see how well it works on my son, but I can spend $25 on one.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:01 am
Well, as a co-sleeping mom, I think they are both wastes of money, but if one has to win, then the first one, cause I do love me some SHEEP! And the Wallace and Grommet’esque sheep that glows and plays heartbeat sounds is just TOO CUTE :)
August 20th, 2009 at 10:03 am
The part about dingos really cracked me up.
I wouldn’t buy either of these but the sheep is cute!
August 20th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
If I had money to blow, my choice would definitely be the Easidream… but it’s probably about halfway down the “If I had the money” list
August 20th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
I wonder how safe these items are, especially the second one. Either way, if I had to choose, I’d go with number one. I just like the sheep. Otherwise, we co-slept with our children and see these things as a waste of our money. Besides how long do you truly need something like this? Six months, maybe a year? Way too expensive.
August 20th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
both are just kind of scary
August 24th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Sheep as well – although I am also a co-sleeping mama.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:18 am
Hmmm. I wonder what else you could rock with the Lullabub? Chairs? Adult beds? Sneak into your friend’s house and make them seasick by remote control…
August 31st, 2009 at 11:26 am