When the little one refuses to go to bed, a common parental hack is to pop them in the car for a drive around town. The gentle purr of the engine and strobe of the passing streetlights will lull most infants to sleep giving mom and dad some R & R.
In what was either the product of an internal company hack day or elaborate April Fool’s joke, Ford España has come up with the perfect combination of design and technology to solve an age-old problem for drowsy parents of a newborn.
A speaker simulates the sound of your car and gimbels apparently rock the crib in the same way your car passes over bumps in the road. The LEDs that light up the rails to simulate streetlights passing by the windows is a brilliant touch but I think having a dedicated app to record your route and sync it to the crib is a bit much.
It’s still a prototype but sleep-deprived parents around the world have seen this and want one. Who knows, maybe Ford has tapped into a new line of business.
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