How does baby's first smart diaper work?

When our babies are little, keeping them hydrated and dry is important and something many parents stress over. Trying to remember how many wet ones your little one has had in a 24-hour period is tough when you're insanely sleep-deprived, you know?

That's why this new "smart diaper" concept Pampers is launching is so interesting. The brand just announced its new high tech diaper system, Lumi, which sees sensors attached to diapers to sense wetness (it doesn't track bowel movements, just urine). The sensors work in concert with a Wi-Fi baby monitor and an app that lets parents keep track of baby's diaper situation and lets them know when the baby needs to be changed.

According to a tweet from Pampers, this is "the world's first all-in-one connected care system that is revolutionizing baby monitoring" and is in partnership with tech giants Logitech and Verily.

While wearable tech is nothing new (in the baby space alone, we've seen products like the Owlet monitor), this is the first time we've seen this sort of technology utilized for a diaper.