The Best High-Tech Baby Monitors and Baby Gear for Your Nursery

This easy-on-the-eyes bassinet has five motions to soothe your kid and is Bluetooth-enabled. This good-looking smartphone-controlled bedside bassinet has a timer and five motions: Car ride, rock-a-bye, free swing, kangaroo and wave. Parents can choose among five speeds, plus four white noise options. Mix and match the movements, speeds and sounds to figure out the perfect smart bassinet cocktail that gets your kid to fall asleep and stay asleep. You can use it until your baby is 25 pounds.

The SmartConnect Deluxe Soother is part night-light, part bedtime guru, and totally worth it. Getting your kid to sleep is easy, right? Bad joke. Very bad. That's where this gadget comes in handy. The SmartConnect Deluxe Soother lets you customize and control everything with the SmartConnect app. This means you can adjust the lighting effects and music from anywhere in your house, without disturbing your baby. Plus, you can create a personalized bedtime routine. It also plays soothing music and sounds.

The Owlet baby monitor lets you observe your baby from anywhere, and the monitor's 1080p video lets you see your baby in clear detail during the day and night. There's a 130-degree wide angle lens, so every bit of the nursery is visible. So you're at work and jonesing for a glimpse of your infant? Owlet to the rescue. The video monitor let you stream sound and video via its own app. It has night vision, for those late work dinners. And it streams video via secure, encrypted WiFi. You can talk to your baby from anywhere and listen to your kid while you're on your phone.

This infant car seat alerts you if you accidentally leave your baby in the car. It can happen to anyone and when it does, it's horrific beyond measure. This car seat, while not foolproof, will also let you know if your child unbuckles themselves while the car is in motion, via an app.

This smart baby thermometer lets parents monitor temps from afar, thanks to its Bluetooth connectivity. Your baby has a wearable device that tracks his or her temperature. This thing will even track when gave your baby medicine, and will remind you when your child is due for another dose via text or email. And you'll be alerted if the fever spikes. It's either immensely smart, or immensely crazy-making.

Developed by Dr. Harvey Karp, the Snoo Smart Sleeper uses three microphones to monitor your baby’s crying and soothe them back to sleep with an optimal mix of white noise and vibration. The Snoo Smart Sleeper automatically selects the type of noise (soft rain, heartbeats, etc.) and volume level, as well as the motion (slower swing or faster jiggles) and speed, based entirely on how agitated or relaxed your child sounds. And to make sure they sleep safely, the Snoo also comes with three organic cotton five-second swaddles (in sizes ranging from 5 to 26 pounds) that attach to clips in the sleeper to ensure your baby can't roll over onto their belly.

The iBaby monitor even has a built-in moonlight soother that projects the moon and stars on to the ceiling as a sort of interstellar nightlight. For parents who want to monitor their baby’s cries from the office, or the gym, or Tahiti, the BB-8-looking iBaby M7 syncs right up to your house wifi connection ⏤ so instead of using a dedicated handheld receiver, you watch all the action on a smartphone app. It offers impressive 1080p HD video (with record function), a 360-degree view with 110-degree tilt, and an array of high-tech sensors, including motion, sound, and in-room temperature, air quality, and humidity. The M7 also comes with night vision, two-way talk, diaper and feeding reminders, and tons of programmed lullabies and bedtime stories.