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Owlet, The Smart Baby Bootie

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["Testing [this wireless baby monitor] extensively... on live babies since last August?!"  Is this even ethical, irradiating babies with a class 2B carcinogen?]

"Being a baby product, safety and dependability have been top priority. We have been testing extensively with our hardware on live babies since last August,” said Monroe. “We just passed the 1 billion heartbeats recorded this month. We are beginning accuracy studies on the product and have units at Seattle Children’s hospital with IRB approval. We are also kicking off studies with many universities and hospitals to understand more about infant health."

Owlet, The Smart Baby Bootie, Raises $7 Million Series A
Posted by John Biggs, techcrunch.com, 19 August 2015

Owlet, the teenie tiny bootie that goes on babies and informs you if they’ve stopped breathing, has raised a $7 million A round, adding some solid numbers to their already impressive $1.85 million seed. The company, led by Jordan Monroe, Kurt Workman, and Zack Bomsta, aims to use the cash to help prepare for its public launch.
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