Stephen Heywood's wife Erin just gave birth to their daughter Samantha. Nothing special there — sexual reproduction stopped being much of a unique achievement after eukaryotes got into the habit over a billion years ago. But Ustream.tv wasn't around to bring the birth of a little baby eukaryote to the world live on the Internet.

Stephen is the proprietor of The Tech Buzz, and normally uses his Ustream.tv account to broadcast the unboxing of new gadgets. Think of this as more of a meatware unboxing, or "unvadging" if you will. Certainly raises the stakes on the woman who tweeted her birth. Also, I'd like to take a moment to thank my mom for her foresight in giving birth to me long before this kind of thing was technically feasible.

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