World’s First Self-Driving Baby Stroller
A 35mm film photo shows a baby girl of approximately one year wrapped in a blue bunny-themed blanket as she smiles from her stroller, 1944. (Jim Heimann Collection/Getty Images)
Maybe you don’t have the smartest baby, but maybe you can get the smartest baby stroller. There’s a self-driving baby carriage that’s being hailed as the world’s smartest baby stroller, and it just debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Good Morning America featured the stroller called the “Ella” and it promises a long list of amazing features like “adaptive push and brake assistance” for a “hands-free strolling” experience for parents and caregivers, according to Gluxkind, a Canadian company that claims they’ve got the best baby stroller ever. Gluxkind says the stroller would work across any terrain, even hills, and icy sidewalks. Yes, there’s an app for that. It’s designed to work with their app and is also powered by artificial intelligence. Some other features that you might find convenient are a removable bassinet and toddler seat, an automatic “rock-my-baby” option, and a built-in white noise machine.
But wait, there’s more, “it gives you a second pair of hands and another pair of eyes while you’re out and about with your kid,” said Anne Hunger, who is one of the company’s co-founders. She also told Good Morning America that the stroller’s push and brake features are like the brakes on an e-bike. She also shared that the stroller’s maximum speed is about 4 miles per hour.
She co-founded Gluxkind in 2020 with her husband Kevin Huang, who told Good Morning America they were inspired to create a smart stroller after they started shopping for one for their two-year-old daughter. He said, “When we were stroller shopping, even the most popular ones were really lacking in a lot of the safety tech that we take for granted in cars.” He also mentioned that “we were mind-blown that there’s nothing that’s smarter than what they used to be like 50 years ago.”
Do we really need a stroller that we don’t have to push? The stroller market will decide if this changes the game.
Ways to Spread Love and Happiness Every Week in 2023
I believe that all of us would love to spread kindness as much as possible. We don’t perform random acts of kindness for a variety of reasons, maybe we think we don’t have time, or perhaps we feel money is the issue (it’s not), or some might feel it’s “weird.” One extremely small way I try to be kind and friendly is when I’m on my daily run I give a quick wave to anyone and everyone I pass or see. I used to sometimes wait until someone else waved before I’d wave back, but at some point, I decided to always be the “wave initiator.” Again, this is a very tiny, teeny-weeny thing I like to do, but there are so many other ways to spread joy.
The fine folks at The Guardian have compiled “52 Acts of Kindness: how to spread joy in every week of 2023” to help us make 2023 a better place and more enjoyable for all of us. Some are as simple as helping a dying bee or donating a coat, while others can be more complex, but certainly doable.
Here are some of the “52 Acts of Kindness” on the list, see how many you feel you could accomplish this year…
Joel Katz is the Morning Show Personality, Assistant Program Director, Podcast Host, Voiceover artist, audio producer, and Digital Content Writer for Magic 98.3. Joel has been working in New Jersey radio since college and started at Magic in 2002 as the Morning Show Host, “I can’t think of another place where I’d fit more perfectly; it’s just a great company with awesome people.” Joel is married to Kathleen, his elementary school sweetheart (they were each other’s first dates at age 9), shares a birthday with his oldest son, Ty, and has twins, Kiera and Liam. Joel runs at least 3.1 miles every day and enjoys playing basketball, doing laundry, saving his turn signal for when he really needs it, kissing dogs through a fence, using coasters, making that cool noise by rubbing his fingers on balloons, and chasing after ping pong balls on a windy cruise ship.
