The Adventures of Baby Arthur

Arthur has been keen on messing around with cell phones of all shapes and sizes. But it looks like someone has really gone off the deep end with an iPhone app, named the "Cry Translator", which claims to be able to translate a baby's cries. Hold your iPhone to your crying infant for 10 seconds or so, and a logo will promptly tell you if your baby is hungry, sleepy, annoyed, stressed or bored. For a mere $9.99 ($29.99 after promotion is over), you can bring your relationship with your baby to a whole new level. Supposedly it works for all ages too. Cry Translator claims to be developed based on clinical trials and boasts a 96% accuracy rate.

Since I do not own an iPhone, I won't be able to tell you if it works. I'd definitely be interested to know (feel free to drop me a line!). I'd run all kinds of experiments on this thing! "Beam up Scotty!!" I'm one of those suckers who'd pay the money just to see if it works!

The app itself probably serves as a distraction to the baby and that itself will make him stop crying. Any old cell phone or remote control would do! And babies are stressed all the time anyway! I can only guess that 96% accurate means success at making the baby stop crying. This doesn't necessarily mean the application was right. Add me to the line of skeptics on this one.