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We found this Japanese baby translator in one of the ancient vaults on the Internet, so please indulge us as we walk down memory lane.
And life really does seem to imitate art, if this gadget from Japan is any indication.
Remember that episode of the Simpsons where Homer discovers he has a long-lost brother, called Herb, who was incredibly wealthy and whose voice was famously provided by Danny DeVito? That episode of the long-running animated sitcom – in a very, very small nutshell – saw Herb sponsor Homer’s wacky design of a car and the abysmal failure saw Herb’s fortune spectacularly fall.
As we all know, that wasn’t the end of Herb’s adventures. After experiencing an epiphany in a park hearing a baby cry, Herb designed a gadget that would translate the cries of a baby and, lo and behold, Herb’s riches-to-rags tale turned into a riches-to-rags-back-to-riches tale.
Well, it seems a Japanese inventor turned the baby translator gadget into reality. Boing Boing says the gadget is geared towards first-time mums and lets the parent know whether their newborn is hungry, tired, stressed or ‘inconvenient’.
However, further detective work shows that the baby translator is actually based on a Spanish baby translator called Why Cry and even further investigative elbow grease showed that a flurry of imitations was unleashed, including the Bowlingual dog translation device.
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