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Why don't you introduce yourself?

I'm John Collins. I'm your husband.

Yes, I know. I'm interviewing my husband. But stick with me here.

What is your first reaction when I say the words, new?

Well, my shoulders tense a little bit. That was my first reaction. But that is a word that, you know, that defined a period of my life.

For the uninitiated, the Snew is a mechanized bassinet, you know, for infants. And it costs $1,700 if you buy it outright.

The company that makes the Snew, happiest baby, called it a smart sleeper. And its claim to fame is that it automatically responds to your baby's fussing.

It does that with white noise and with rocking, movement that is triggered by your child's cries.

It also funnels data into an app for you to obsess over if that's your thing.

I think more about the app and its horseshoe-shaped map of the night than I even think about the thing itself.

I think about all the little, you know, the diagram of the night that I just had or I'm having with it's like red and white.

And was there another color? I mean, a lot of this I've suppressed now. But yeah, I mean, there are a lot, I have a lot of feelings about the Snew.

As is probably clear, we had a Snew for our son, Sam, who's now two and a half. We rented ours. It ran us $128 a month for four months.

And I think it's fair to say that John had a more complicated relationship with the Snew than I did.

I had a love-hate relationship with it because it could do these things.

And it could do these things without our input. The Snew didn't need instructions from us because in theory, it was listening to Sam.

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