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30-10-2014, 05:29 AM
Gimmicks or useful gadgets?
I love the idea of some of these - especially useful for those that have to work. What do you think? Wonder if we can get them to give some away to our members..If you're feeling lovesick when you are apart from your pet, one Ukrainian start up thinks it has the answer.
The PetCube remote camera allows you to communicate easily and even play games with your beloved dog or cat.
But is this technology gone barking mad?
The BBC's North America technology correspondent Richard Taylor spoke to PetCube's Yukia Zimmermann to find out.
A team of US graduate students has developed a dog feeder which they believe can make pets smarter.
Co-founders of CleverPet Leo Trottier and Dan Knudsen met at University of California, San Diego, where they studied for PhDs in cognitive science and neuroscience respectively.
Using their experience of working with animals, they decided to develop a digital dog feeder, that uses algorithms based on behavioural science to set dogs progressively harder challenges, with food as a reward.
Working out of their living room, they turned to crowdfunding service Kickstarter to try and get funding for their prototype. BBC News caught up with them by webcam over the internet.
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30-10-2014, 06:59 AM
The first because I do not leave my dog for more than half an hour while I pop out to the local shop, and the second because somehow I cannot see that working with a raw fed dog!
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31-10-2014, 05:57 PM
I think these are all band aids for our guilty conscience when we do have to leave them on their own
Still, if you do have a dog with severe separation anxiety and this helps, then I'm all for it.
It shouldn't be an enabler to be gone for longer though..
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