An absurd new app employs sounds and pictures to con babies into snapping their own headshots. Competitive parents: ready, set, selfie.
Worried that there aren’t enough dribble shots of your friends’ newborns incessantly leaking out of every social media orifice? Well fear not, because new software enabling babies, yes, actual human babies, to take snaps of themselves has just been unleashed into the app-mosphere. Indeed, if you thought that belfies (butt selfies), pelfies (pet selfies) and felfies (farm selfies) were the depths of cell phone snapping depravity, a new contender has emerged in the form of Baby Selfie. The app uses sounds and pictures to grab a kid’s attention, encouraging them to beat their chubby little paws against the smartphone screen until they achieve the perfect pose.
Software developer and new dad Matthew Pegula, who wanted to facilitate a “mash up” of his roles at work and home, created the app. “Baby Selfie started out as a much more ambitious project that was going to try to determine when a baby was smiling, and report back to parents what the baby liked,” Pegula explains. “But as I was working on that, the much simpler idea of Baby Selfie arose, and seemed like a good starting point to gauge interest.”
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