Leslie Thompson answered these and many other questions about iBabyVideo during a recent interview with on air personalities Brian Estridge and Amy Chodroff of WBAP News Talk 820AM | 96.7 FM. They covered everything from safety concerns to the portability of the Web-based baby monitor, as well as creative (even silly) ideas for using the service. Leslie also explains how parents can set the audio and motion detection levels so they will automatically receive a push notification to their mobile device is the baby moves or makes a sound, even when parents are not watching the live video. Click the image to hear the full interview, or read the transcript below.

INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT:

This is the WBAP Tuesday morning news, on News Talk 820AM and 96.7FM.

Brian: Well, there’s an app for that. It seems like there’s an app for everything – even one that will help you raise your little baby and keep an eye on her. Did you have a monitor, Amy, when you were raising your two little girls?

Amy: Yes, I did. And I always had to put it in the other room or turn it down, because I couldn’t stand hearing every single sound. It would keep me up all night!

Brian: The cooing and things like that. Was it just a sound monitor, or was it a video monitor, too?

Amy: They didn’t have the video ones back then.

Brian: We even had one that was a pad that you would put under the mattress and it would sense whether the baby was breathing or not, and if the baby stopped breathing the alarm would go off. You probably can overanalyze these things and be a little too protective.

Well, Leslie Thompson joins us right now – she may have the answer to all of those issues that we have as parents. It’s called iBaby. It’s a video app that works with your iPhone – also can work on the Android system as well. She joins us right now – good morning, Leslie. How are you?

Leslie: Good morning to you! And I need to correct you really quick, it’s called iBabyVideo.

Brian: Oh, I gotta say it right – iBabyVideo. There we go. Explain exactly what this iBabyVideo does.

Leslie: What it is, it’s a Web-based video baby monitor. You go to the website, iBabyVideo.com, and create an account, and that is linked to the webcam that you put in the nursery, or wherever your baby is. Then, when you start broadcasting from that webcam through your account, you can go to any other computer or laptop – you can be at the office – or you can use your iPhone, your iPod Touch, your iPad, and soon the Android to see what’s happening in the nursery. You link into your nursery webcam.

Brian: So, you actually use an Internet-based webcam. You don’t actually have to buy the baby an iPhone, right?

Leslie: [laughing] Not yet!

Brian: You use your existing webcam, right?

Leslie: Exactly.

Amy: Is this good for people who, say, have a caretaker at home and they’re at work – or they have a nanny and need to see what’s going on with the kids?

Leslie: It’s not so much a nanny-cam for spying on the nanny as it is that you don’t want to miss those precious moments in the baby’s first weeks and months. A lot of households have two career couples, and maybe both parents have to work. Or even if just one parent has to work, you want to be able to check in on the baby and see the baby’s laugh, maybe hear the first words or watch those first steps while you’re at the office or even traveling across the country.

Brian: And you can share this with other folks, right – grandparents, things like that? Here’s one thing that scares me – Leslie, I’m sure you’ll eliminate my fear. I worry about other people being able to hack into this thing and seeing the kid.

Leslie: It is totally encrypted – the same way as if you were to go online and do your online banking. When that data is transmitted it is encrypted, so you can’t access that video feed unless you have the password and username that would authorize you as a user.

Amy: Is there any other use for this? I mean, at night, when I’m sleeping in my room and I want to hear when the baby gets up – is there anything that will help me with that?

Leslie: Yes! What it does is that you can set it to send what are called push notifications. You can set certain levels for audio and motion detection, and that way when the webcam is on your baby, even when the baby is sleeping at night – maybe keep a dim light on in the room – if the baby maybe stands up in the crib or cries, makes a sound, if you’ve got your iPhone or your iPad right next to your bed, it will send a push notification that says, baby’s doing something, pay attention, and wake you up so you can go check on the child.

Amy: You don’t really need those monitors that you get at the store anymore.

Leslie: No. The great thing is this one goes from room to room with you – especially, again, if you have a mobile device. If you’re in the kitchen cooking, you can set up your mobile device right next to wherever you are. Or, again, if you’re maybe out running errands, you can just peek in.

With the baby monitors, a lot of times you can’t get a clear signal – you get interference with the signal – or you only have one device that you can use in one room. So, this goes wherever you go. And, you don’t have to watch the streaming video all of the time because of the push notifications. And, as Brian mentioned, you can share it with family and friends and give them authorization to get their own viewer account to see the baby’s video feed from the nursery. So, if grandma and grandpa live out of state, they can still tune in and see their little grandchild growing up.

Brian: I just wonder if I can use this on my deer lease. [laughing] Leslie, it’s called iBabyVideo – I was thinking it could be called i-16-year-old-video, too.

Leslie: [laughing] Well, we intend it specifically for infants and toddlers, but I’m sure people will get creative in how they use it. My husband had the same idea for the deer lease. He’s the one who invented it – Craig Thompson. He’s a technology entrepreneur and comes up with ideas like this in the shower all the time.

Brian: Leslie, how can folks download it?

Leslie: You go to iBabyVideo.com, and that’s where you would create your user account, and then you can download the iPhone or iPad app for free in the iTunes app store.

Brian: Super. What a neat deal. iBabyVideo. Thank you, Leslie.

Leslie: Thank you, guys!

Brian: Leslie Thompson joining us here this morning. 7:23 on WBAP.

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INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT:

HOST: A North Texas man and woman have invented a way for you to watch your baby live on the Internet from anywhere in the world. Leslie Thompson of Lewisville says that you can keep tabs on your child in high-def video with a new service called iBabyVideo.com.

Leslie, good morning to you and welcome to the program. If you sign up for the service, you’ll get what, live streaming video of your baby and it’s safe, right?

LESLIE: That’s absolutely right. You can go to iBabyVideo.com and set up a subscription account, and that lets you broadcast from your nursery webcam to your account and you can log in from any other computer, your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and soon the Android and see what’s happening in the nursery.

HOST: This has got to be really peace of mind for moms and dads out there, right? Am I correct in that — have you been getting any feedback?

LESLIE: Absolutely. It’s super convenient. A lot of moms will just go into another room, their home office or the kitchen downstairs — dads of course, too — to do some work and it just helps you use it as a home baby video monitor. But then a lot of couples, both parents have to work. And even if they have somebody very responsible taking care of the baby, they want to just be able to check in and make sure everything is fine.

HOST: You know, this sounds like a million-dollar idea. How did you guys come up with this?

LESLIE: I have to give all the credit to my husband, Craig. He is a technology entrepreneur — and honestly, I have to keep him out of the shower. Everytime he takes a shower, he has a new idea.

He had seen me looking at my iPhone and his iPad watching YouTube videos of our family members — we’ve got lots of nieces and nephews all over the country, and I was always checking out pictures and videos of the little babies that are spread out all over. He thought, how great would it be to get live video of family members and new babies over the iPhone or iPad? Then he thought, well, that would be a really good idea for a baby monitor.

So, he’s been working tirelessly for about 10 months with our developers, and we finally made it happen.

HOST: You mentioned that this is going to be available on all sorts of platforms — you know, the iPhone, the iPad, smart phones — I’m really fascinated by the technology component of all that. Things are so much more convenient these days as compared to years gone by. You guys have really got to be pleased to see the developments that have come about.

LESLIE: Absolutely. It’s really neat, because there was a time that just having a walkie talkie style audio home monitor was a big deal. Now, the fact that you can carry a live streaming video monitor with you from room to room or across town with you, across the country — just pull up your iPhone, iPad, Android any time and get live, streaming video from a webcam that you set up — it’s just remarkable what technology can do.

HOST: Outstanding. Leslie Thompson of Lewisville on the line with us. Again, it’s iBabyVideo.com. A north Texas couple have invented a way for you to watch your baby live on the Internet from anywhere in the world. Sports is coming up next…

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