IsraelSeen.com reported on June 23, 2011 about an invention of two Israeli college students could one day help new parents avoid the terrifying possibility of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). This little understood phenomenon otherwise known as "crib death" affects approximately two of every 1,000 babies worldwide, or 544,000 infants per year in the United States alone.

BabyBeat was developed by electrical and computer engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.