Childcare is not far from technology, far from it. Innovations are springing up here and there to reassure or assist young parents in their day-to-day tasks. Among them: attached hammocks. If they’re not new, the trend seems to be catching on a bit more and there are quite a few of them lining the aisles at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. Two are off the beaten track.
An automatic cradle for baby to sleep
The Rise, from manufacturer Elvi, is a 2-in-1. The device is both a deck chair and a hammock. In her first form, Rise freely rocked the baby to help them calm down and fall asleep. Once strapped into the bouncer, parents can start the swings via a control panel located on the riser.
The Elvie Rise is both a deck chair and a hammock.
An application is also available to manage movement. It is possible to start and stop them remotely and regulate their speed and amplitude. A personalized mode allows parents to record this cadence and automatically perform a rise swing to maintain it later.
Once baby falls asleep, the attached deck chair transforms into a bassinet. The transition will be as smooth as possible so as not to wake him up. This capability allows parents to put their baby to sleep and then place them in the reclining position – when bedtime is recommended – without waking them. ElviRise records the time spent in cradle mode, and therefore bedtime in general. A sensor detects the baby’s presence in the cradle and until the parent removes it.
When the baby sleeps, it turns into a cradle.
Baby monitoring is very short, but allows you to count sleep hours. Others can be added manually through the app.
The Rise Cradle is battery operated. So it can be easily moved. On the other hand, only 3 to 4 hours of swing is possible. Which is a little weak. Regardless, interested parents must pay $800.
An attached bed to monitor your baby from all angles
In the corridors of CES 2025, Bosch is also showcasing a connected cradle. Its purpose is quite different: to monitor the baby while it sleeps.
The arm hanging above the bed provides a lot of information about the baby’s health.
To do this, the bed is topped with an arm that contains a number of technologies. A camera monitors the child and transmits images directly to the application or other connected objects in the home.
The arm also has a bunch of sensors. The bed measures the ambient temperature and humidity in the room and the microphone records the baby’s noises. If he wakes up, you can play a lullaby from a distance to calm him down.
Information about the child’s health can be obtained from an application developed exclusively by Bosch.
To go even further, the Bosch bed is capable of measuring the baby’s heart rate and breathing. Like the images filmed by the camera, all this data is transferred directly to the application. If this attached bed is meant to reassure young parents, we can still ask ourselves the question of extreme baby supervision, even at the risk of creating more stress than anything else.
