If you have a little one of your own, you're probably all too familiar with the struggle of retrieving lost pacifiers throughout the night. NiNite solves this problem by making your child's favorite binky a smart pacifier. A small sealed enclosure attaches to the pacifier and houses a series of microscopic sensors, which continuously monitor the state of your child's sleep. As your child begins to search for their pacifier, the NiNite responds accordingly by glowing, buzzing, and blinking.

Design Team

Phillip Priolo,Shane Rogers, Leslie Tepper,Mark Tepper, Loren Vittetoe, Andrew Straub

Hive Design NiNite NiNite tightly fits onto the Philips Avent Soothie and meets all safety requirements for pacifiers.

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Unlike glow-in-the-dark pacifiers that act as a fading beacon of light in the child's mouth, the NiNite is only active when it's needed. While the baby is sleeping, it's "OFF" and functions as a normal pacifier. When the pacifier falls out of the child's mouth and senses the child starting to wake up and fuss, it begins to softly glow and lightly buzz to help the child (or parents frantically running into a dark room) easily locate the pacifier. As soon as the NiNite is grabbed, it immediately reverts back to its "OFF" state.

Over the years, pacifiers have been somewhat of a polarizing topic. Parents who rely on them can't imagine living without them, where others couldn't imagine putting one in their child's mouth. Love them or hate them, The American Academy of Pediatrics now recommends that parents consider offering pacifiers to infants one month and older at the onset of sleep to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

Smart baby products as a category has seen significant growth in the last few years. With many companies attempting to offer a solution to monitor a child's vitals (heart rate, oxygen, temperature, activity level, etc), the NiNite takes an alternative approach. The purpose of the NiNite is to remove one barrier to a good night's sleep. It's more of a product for parents than it is for the child.

Hive is a Los Gatos, California based design and innovation consulting firm founded in 2012. With decades of combined experience in product design and development, Hive brings to the table a bottomless toolbox of ideas, concepts, and solutions to tackle a variety of design challenges.

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