The hell they can't. "Oh, I'm starving!" and then as soon as you get them they just kind of lie there and look around.
I think it was you who mentioned facial tells and eye accessing cues and so on. It was really funny when my daughter was young, watching her shoot her eyes sideways as she made something up.
If you want something to think about, the reason babies can't lie is not just because they can't speak, but because they can't tell the truth. You have to be able to make truth claims you would identify as truth claims in order to be able to lie.
Now that's a funny app. I think it's so borderline ridiculous that it might just be a novelty or gag app, because obviously there's no way you can tell a baby is lying.
Luckily, kids are terrible liars. My four year old will tell me that, "Mama said I can..." RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER! Ha ha, he (thankfully) is far from mastering the art of lying.
An iPhone app that's been around for awhile supposedly interprets an infant's cry ( actually not that far removed from a lying vendor) , hungry, tired annoyed but probably can't tell if the baby is lying something you can't do until you learn to speak.
There's pretty much an app for everything these days, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lie detector app already. And an app to detect lie detectors. And an app to detect the presence of... Well, you get the point.
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