"Your baby finally drifts off in your arms after twenty minutes of gentle rocking, their breathing settles into that peaceful rhythm, and you begin the delicate transfer to the crib. The instant their back touches the mattress, their eyes snap open. Yukai Engineering's Necoron, making its debut at CES 2026, aims to eliminate this guessing game entirely. The device monitors your infant's heart rate through a small ankle sensor and uses LED color indicators"
"The ankle band wraps around the baby's leg with a soft fabric strap and houses a rounded white sensor module that, yes, looks exactly like a 'house arrest wearable', so to speak. But instead of tracking curfew violations, you're monitoring optimal nap conditions, which feels like a fair trade when you're on hour three of failed transfer attempts. The sensor feeds heart rate data to a separate main unit that displays color-coded LED signals:"
Necoron uses a soft ankle band and rounded sensor module to monitor an infant's heart rate and determine optimal nap readiness. The device transmits heart-rate data to a separate main unit that displays color-coded LED signals indicating whether to walk while holding, sit and hold, or lay the baby down. Yukai Engineering developed the product using research from RIKEN and is collaborating with Takara Tomy, targeting a 2026 market launch after a CES 2026 debut. Parents press a button to start monitoring and simply glance at the LED while transferring the sleeping infant.
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