Two devices promise to make daily life easier: one interprets a baby’s cry, the other finds lost items

The Motorola PIP1710 Connect is designed to give parents two ways to monitor a baby: through a separate five-inch Full HD touchscreen or through the Motorola Bebé mobile app.

Its camera transmits video and sound, works in the dark, and can be rotated, tilted and zoomed remotely up to four times. Parents can also speak to the baby through the built-in speaker. For basic monitoring, the camera and parent unit can communicate directly without an internet connection.

A Delfi review found that the monitor delivers high-quality daytime and nighttime images. Motorola advertises 1080p resolution, which the review considers suitable for everyday baby monitoring, although more advanced options are already available. The microphone is sensitive, while camera movement has a slight control delay.

Motorola says the battery can last up to 14 hours, but independent reviewers recorded about six hours at maximum screen brightness. The 14-hour figure should therefore be viewed as an ideal maximum rather than a guaranteed result.

The monitor's most distinctive feature is AI-based analysis of a baby's cry. The system, developed by Zoundream rather than Motorola, assigns crying to categories such as hunger, sleepiness, discomfort, the need to burp or irritation. Motorola offers a 30-day trial, after which the BeyondCry feature requires a subscription. The review cautions that the broad categories may not always be accurate, so parents should treat the analysis as an additional aid rather than a dependable diagnosis of what a child needs.