Today is the day Karl brings home his baby for 3 days.
Heh... this is the baby program portion of his 8th grade health class.
The infant simulator is a lifelike, life-size (20 1/2 inches) vinyl baby weighing 6.5 pounds. It is anatomically correct and available in both sexes and five different ethnicities. An internal computer simulates an infant crying at realistic, random intervals 24 hours a day. Intervals can be adjusted from 15 minutes to 6 hours for a normal, cranky, or particularly easy to care for baby.
The "parent" is given a non-transferable key attached to a hospital bracelet on his or her wrist that must be inserted in the Baby for a specific length of time to simulate feeding, bathing, diaper-changing and comforting. Care sessions last from 5 to 35 minutes. If the "baby" has been properly cared for, it will coo to signal the end of the session. If it is neglected (allowed to cry for more than one minute) or handled roughly (dropped, thrown or struck), tamper-proof indicators on the computer will alert the instructor. A drug-affected model, smaller in size, has the additional feature of simulating tremors due to withdrawal from a mother's drug addiction during pregnancy.
So, for 3 days and 3 nights we'll all be enjoying a crying baby and a crabby Karl.
Oh joy!
Just call me granny!
1 comment:
i remember that there was a hilarious beavis & butthead episode on that. they threw the "baby" away, hehe, and at school, asked where the "baby" was they said it was "stolen by gipsies in the night"... uhuhuhuhu! LMAO!
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