The Kickbee™ is a fetal kick detector that Twitters when a baby kicks. The Kickbee is a stretchable band worn by a pregnant mother. Vibration sensors are attached directly to the band, and are triggered by movement underneath. The band and electronics are covered in a soft fabric cover for design and comfort. A microcontroller in the garment captures the movement and transmits the signals wirelessly to a computer running a custom application.

The application receives the sensor values and analyzes them. When a kick is detected, a message is posted to Twitter. Twitter makes it easy to share these short messages of “I kicked Mommy!” with family and friends, and allows them to be sent as text messages to any mobile phone in the world. The Twitter account can also act as a data log that can be accessed later for visualization or archiving.

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