The Bump Best Baby Award winners were announced last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, with companies coming to the fore that excelled in tech innovation, design and utility.
When it comes to raising babies, what tech gadgets should parents turn to? The Bump, a pregnancy and parenting resource, together with Living in Digital Times, producers of the Baby Tech Summit at CES 2016 in Las Vegas, last week announced the winners of The Bump Best of Baby Tech Awards at CES.
The winners, who have excelled in tech innovation, design and utility in the fertility, pregnancy and baby product space, were recognised at The Bump Best of Baby Tech Awards ceremony hosted by The Bump site director, Julia Wang, and one of the judges, founder and CEO of Zuckerberg Media and New York Times bestselling author, Randi Zuckerberg.
In addition to being named The Bump Best of Baby Tech Award Winner, each winner will receive a one-year distribution contract with Best Babie, the largest national distributor in the baby, children and toy market, allowing their product to be distributed in top US baby retailers, electronic retailers and/or online e-tailers.
“According to a survey of more than 9,000 moms on The Bump, 78 percent say that technology helps make parenting easier,” said Julia Wang, site director of The Bump. “The Bump is excited to help make the lives of these moms, and all parents, easier by introducing them to transformative technologies and new products.”
“We all know how important technology is to our lives and now it’s being used to make parenting much easier,” said Jill Gilbert, producer of the Baby Tech Summit. “The Bump Best of Baby Tech Awards winners underscore that technology is redefining everything from conception to how we care for and raise babies.”
Results were based on a compilation of online votes, in-person votes at CES and expert judges.
The Bump Best of Baby Tech Award Winners were:
Baby Eats
- Freemie Freedom Pump and Collection Cups allows moms to pump hands-free.
Baby Learn & Play
- The Starling by Versa Me word-tracking system nourishes a child’s brain during the most rapid stage of development through activities that encourage talk and feedback between parent and child.
Baby On the Go
- Evenflo ADVANCED Evenflo SensorSafe™ Embrace™ DLX Infant Car Seat reminds the driver that there is a baby in the car upon arrival of their destination.
Baby Safety
- Owlet Baby Monitor is a smart sock monitor that uses hospital technology—pulse oximeter—to alert parents if baby stops breathing or heart rate fluctuates.
Fertility & Pregnancy
- Univfy IVF Prediction Tests are online tests that provide fertility patients with personalized probabilities of their likely success with in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Healthy Baby
- Kinsa Smart Ear Thermometer uses the latest technology to take a one-second, one-button temperature reading that syncs wirelessly to a smartphone to keep a record of your child for yourself, a caregiver or doctor.
Audience Favorite
- Owlet Baby Monitor is a smart sock monitor that uses hospital technology—pulse oximeter—to alert parents if baby stops breathing or heart rate fluctuates.