Baby Technology

What are these things? According to Naomi at least one of them is only available in Japan. The answers are below.


































The first picture (top left) is a gadget for disposing of paper diapers so that they do not smell. You drop the dirty diaper into the open top, close the lid, and spin the rotating top. The white ring inside the yellow ring is actually a container for a long tube of plastic wrap. When you spin the top, the diaper is sealed in plastic and it is twisted until it is very tight, so there is absolutely no smell and the sealed pack is quite small.

The second picture (top right) is definitely only available here, at least according to the company's advertising. This is a bottle of milk for the baby. The milk comes, not as a powder, but as cubes that are placed in the bottle. Hot and cold water are then added so that the liquid is just the right temperature for the baby. We used to give Naomi milk straight from the refrigerator, so it should be no surprise that Tomone gets it at room temperature. We just pour in the water, shake the bottle a little, and presto the milk is ready.

The final picture (bottom) shows special equipment for cleaning the baby bottles. The ball point pen is there to show you the size. The gadget at the top is for the bottle itself. The yellow and white end is shoved into the bottle, and then holding the bottle with one hand, you turn the handle. It does a fantastic job. The smaller thing at the bottom is a special cleaner for the nipples. Again you just shove it and turn to get the thing spic and span.