App Turns Your iPad Into a Baby Monitor - Mashable

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By Natali Morris2013-09-08 14:09:24 UTC

If you have two iOS devices, then you’ve got a baby monitor.

Baby Monitor 3G connects any combination of iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch to create a baby monitor system with both audio and video capabilities.

Users designate one device as the Baby Station, which stays in the baby’s room and uses the device’s built-in camera and microphone to monitor the baby. The other device — the Parent Station — is used to watch and listen.

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While the app offers many benefits — consider the convenience associated with packing for travel — there are a few drawbacks to using this system. One device, for instance, is completely unusable while the baby is asleep. Also, a device has to be left behind as the Parent Station for any childcare provider. And since the app works by connecting through a shared Wi-Fi network, there is no ability to stream a constant video from the baby’s room when outside of the house, so no checking in from dinner.

Still, this is a very useful parenting hack that makes it possible to keep a close eye on your baby. Just be sure to password-protect that Wi-Fi network to keep outsiders from accessing the baby monitor stream.

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Natali Morris

Natali is a technology reporter and host/editor-in-chief of Crash Test Mom, a parenting product review show. She is a regular contributor to CNBC and The TODAY Show, as well as an MBA student at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. She is …More

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