By Chris Roberts – Device-assisted child care is an almost century-old concept. The world’s first electronic baby monitor, the Bakelite Zenith Radio Nurse, went on sale in the late 1930s—a response, at least in part, to the moral panic following the kidnapping and subsequent murder of the Lindbergh baby.

Thus, using artificial intelligence (AI) to assist or relieve parents entirely of the burdens of nurturing is not an abrupt or unanticipated innovation—many parents already monitor their children remotely using cameras connected to their smartphones, sometimes with unanticipated and extremely creepy results—and, given the cost and difficulty of securing reliable human babysitters, it may also be an easy sell.

Enter Turkey-based startup Invidyo and its AI-powered “smart baby and babysitter camera.” For sale on Amazon for about $150, the device promises to monitor both the baby and the babysitter.

As The Daily Sabah reported, the device “promises to eliminate parents’ anxiety” by automatically recording whenever the baby cries or smiles—creating a two-minute “highlight reel” of happy baby faces for parents to coo over or post to Instagram—and will also sound an alarm whenever someone who is not an approved babysitter shows up at the house. In addition, the device will create a lowlight reel, turning on the camera whenever the baby cries and delivering a push alert to the parents’ smartphones. Read On:

RB Note: Is this really a thing?