Babypod: The 2016 Way To Play Music To Your Unborn Baby!

The must have baby shower gift of 2016 is here!

Babypod, because that baby will be born to rock! (Photo: iStock altered by The Quint)

Preggers in 2016? Both you and your womb are in for some musical feast. Lullabies are old school, putting headphones on the baby bump is passé, say hello to the stuff of nightmares dreams.

Meet Babypod, a.k.a, ‘musical tampon’, a small pink device that can be inserted into the vagina just like a tampon to play music to the womb! Honestly, I never thought I would have to write this sentence in my life, but one lives to learn something new every day, right?

So, scroll below to find out how gestation is getting a musical twist.

Babypod, Because Headphones Won’t Cut it in 2016!

Designed to give babies their ‘first musical experience’, Babypod is arguably one of the weirdest wearable tech! The light pink bulb, you see above, goes inside the vagina and acts like vaginal speakers (Photo courtesy: Babypod.net)

So what was wrong with putting headphones on your belly? Well, Spanish experts at the Institut Marquès, felt the muffled sounds which reach the fetus from headphones weren’t stimulating enough. Bingo, they came up with this tampon like structure which instead of absorbing blood, turns the vagina into a hi-tech sound system. The device is controlled by a phone app and comes with external headphones, so expectant parents can enjoy some family music time.

Made from medical grade silicone, the vaginal tampon is suitable for all types of skin and the manufacturers have taken special care to ensure that at no point sound intensity increases more than 54 decibels, similar to a conversation in a hushed tone.

Crafted from hypoallergenic silicone, the device does not require batteries (Photo courtesy: Babypod.net)

The futuristic device is available in India online, and will set you back by a whopping Rs 10,000.

Who Is In For Making Baby Einsteins?

Are the days of sweet lullabies over? (Photo: The Quint)

There is enough scientific proof of the effect of music on the unborn fetus. The Babypod manufacturers did a small-scale study and found that 85% of babies responded to intravaginal music by moving their tongues, as opposed to external music via headphones.

The claims seem far-fetched, if it were true, the million other previous studies on the benefits of external music to the womb would be negated.

Frankly, the whole technology is bizarre. I don’t understand the need to insert things in a vagina which is going to go through so much torture in the near future. Maybe it’s exciting for those mums-to-be who were planning to stick up a pair of headphones in their lady parts to make sure their baby has heard the latest Taylor Swift numbers!

Pregnancy is hard. You’re already cutting out alcohol, caffeine, smoke and soft cheese, not to mention the lifelong changes that happen once the baby arrives, there is no need to turn your private parts into someone’s personal entertainment zone. How about letting the baby sacrifice some pre-birth music concerts while concentrating on making some healthy lungs, heart and brain?

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