A new mobile app will soon put the ability to monitor a baby’s prenatal heartbeat in the hands of pregnant women who may worry about their baby’s health in between doctor’s visits.
As a hardware and software professional, this headline sounds like 100% bullshit.
allows your phone to measure prenatal heartbeat
That is not the same thing as an ultrasound scanner.
It’s a microphone app which trims to, and amplifies, specific frequencies which allows you to monitor the baby’s pulse.
You absolutely can use your phone with an ultrasound scanner, but this requires external hardware which, while not restricted, is not super cheap.
This is probably going to end up like that feature on some smartphones that replaces your picture of the moon with a preset image of the moon.
I don’t see this going well. Also, even if it did, is it a good idea to blast a fetus with Ultrasound over and over and over?
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Begins selling your data before you’re even born. Neat.
Instructions unclear, phone wedged in vagina.
You had the phone on Vibrate, didn’t ya?
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Will also sell you nappies and baby clothing while we are on it. s/
