Not everyone lives in a shoe box like us. There isn’t a point in the house where I can’t hear my partner snoring, sneezing or stomping about, but some people can’t hear every sound from every room, which when you throw a baby into the mix can be a risky thing.

This is where baby monitors have been helping families for years, but as many busy parents know, when your baby is in bed, you aren’t always vegged out in the living room or in bed yourself. For many parents, this is the ideal time to get on with some household chores, which will keep you moving constantly from room to room, and potentially away from the baby monitor. The Summer Infant Babble Band aims to solve this problem by making the first wearable baby monitor.

The Babble Band is made from a soft silicone wristband that is fully adjustable to fit anyone’s wrist comfortably. It can alert you with three different functions - audio, vibrations or light levels – to best suit your current environment. The baby unit audio transmitter doubles as a recharging base for the band: it will take five-six hours for a full charge, which is a long old time not to be able to use the device, and because the transmitter is the charger, you can’t simply plug your band in to charge in the room with you whilst still using it - you must enter the baby’s room to put it on the transmitter, which can be a nuisance for light sleepers.

However, the Summer Infant Babble Band’s features are impressive – it has a range of 800ft, and the rechargeable battery will give you up to eight hours of continuous use - this proved more than enough for a day in our house and even at a friend’s, significantly larger four-bedroom house. Just in case, the Babble Band will beep twice to let know if you have wandered out of range.

So, what did we think? Well, it’s a great idea and I’d be excited to see the next few generations of this monitor, it is more a secondary monitor then an overnight one as it needs either a shorter charge time or two bands (for a higher price) so you can charge one whilst you wear the other, and/or a separate charging unit so that you can charge the wrist band away from the transmitter.

Having said all that, the Babble Band is still a smart little product with many useful features, and for the asking price this could make a good companion monitor to work alongside a stationary one, but it needs work before you can rely on it as your one and only monitor. RRP £49.99

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4.2 out of 5

Pros

Three modes - audio, vibration or light level

800ft range

Cable free

Reasonable price

Sleek design

Sensitive transmitter

Easy to use

Cons

Transmitter is the charger

Eight hour battery life

Five-six hour charge time

Only one band included