Unborn children can now communicate with the outside world. Corey Menscher wanted to experience the kicks, movements and other utero activities of his unborn child, so he developed the Kickbee, a strapped-on set of piezo sensors that monitor the baby and send wireless updates about it to Twitter.

Just wrap a stretchy band around your wife, velcro it in place, and the sensors will react to movement. It also sports an Arduino to make sense of the inputs and wirelessly transmit them, via Bluetooth, to a nearby MacBook Pro; it’s the Pro that actually sends out the Twitter updates, not a magic baby.

ECTACO, besides being known for its jetBook e-book reader, also does up some pretty interesting language devices. The latest of these is the iTRAVL NTL-9C Deluxe and you’ll find it pricing around $760.

The ECTACO iTRAVL NTL-9C Deluxe is designed to recognize and translate spoken voice commands, translate what is typed in and help one locate what you need while traveling. It is also designed to be connected to a microphone so it can be used in-car in a hands-free setting as well.

On “Star Trek” they have something called a universal translator that can instantly translate alien language into English (which saves a lot of time if Captain Kirk has the hots for one of the space babes on the planet.) Amazingly enough there is actually a device here on Earth that works somewhat like the universal translator and it came from the minds that brought us GPS and the internet.

The VoxTec Phraselator P2 is a 1 pound, 5-inches by 7-inches gadget that can understand what you are saying in English and then give you the translation in a different language. It was developed for use by Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) but now it’s making appearances in police and emergency departments across the country where it can help bridge the understanding gap between people that speak different languages …