High-tech diapers

The World

Pampers has announced it’s launching a new line of smart diapers that will monitor a baby’s output.The high-tech diaper includes activity sensors, a Logitech camera and an app to record all the data. The World’s host Marco Werman speaks with Alma Gottlieb, an anthropologist who studies diapers and is one of the authors of “A World of Babies.” 

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