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Pet Wearables? But Seriously, Folks... (Video)
It sounds like a joke at first, but Risto Lähdesmäki, CEO of user interface design firm Idean (corporate motto: Life is too short for crappy UX), pointed us at DogTelligent and several other companies that are making pet wearables that seem to have real, practical uses.
But Risto and his design crew work primarily on wearables and interface design for humans, and since their client list ranges from Sony and Samsung to Volkswagen and Rolls Royce, Risto is in a great position to spot future trends in the (maybe too) hot wearables market.
This is nothing new. I have been wearing my pet for years.
Slashdot has gone downhill.
Can I try a save against illusions? This guy looks like he's sitting in his mom's kitchen. He owns a company? Droid, please.
First of all TWO full 30 second ads in a 7 minute video? come on man...
Second, I didn't get any better sense at all about what the pets would be wearing... the guy mostly just talked about how we (humans) are using more wearables these days and how maybe they could be used to .... idk (there was no real point made).
Talk about blatant /vertisement... I think the video is simply a vehicle for the ads and that is it.
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I ignored the video and the first link and looked only at the link for the company with a product. A "smart" dog collar. GPS, cellular, speakers. Aside from the expected "where's my dog" utility, the speakers were an interesting surprise. Issuing relatively quiet commands remotely, not having to yell across a field.
Bark Collars, collar cameras, RFID chips that unlock a pet door, GPS locators, implanted RFID chips are available already.
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It sounds like a joke at first
No it doesn't. It's no more or less of a joke than human wearables. In fact, it's probably less so.
My old dog had an LED collar for walks at night. Is that a "wearable"?
Heck, pets are miles ahead of us. Most of them have already got "implantables" which can be used to unlock (cat and doggy) doors!
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Are shock collars "pet wearables" now? Wow, Sparky is going to be so psyched that he had pet wearables before they were cool!
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The whole post looks like paid advertising for pet collars... Did not expect Slashdot to go down this alley...
I managed to listen to the first 2 minutes which is a new endurance record for me and these slash videos. They must be getting better!
https://youtu.be/kfVsfOSbJY0?t...
Oh, and something something SJWs.
You are welcome on my lawn.
To the Zoombak device we sold from 2007-2011. It was a wearable GPS w/cellular connection. Supported geofencing and find-now with maps.
It had other capabilities that we didn't expose back then due to size/wt limitations.
https://soezooscope.files.word...
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If you have an indoor/outdoor cat, it's a pretty major convenience to track them down when it's time to go to the vet or before it's going to rain (cat's too stupid to figure that out, will get soaked and track it in, at least they're sterilized).
So yeah, nothing new here, ....
I walk my dog at an off-leash park every day, and in the dead of winter it gets pitch-dark here around 4:30pm. We have a light-up collar, but you can only see it from specific angles, so I used an arduino lilypad to add some lights to her jacket. The arduino board means I can make the lights be any colour I like, or even have patterns, and (most importantly) I can make them turn on automatically when it gets dark.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
How far a range do you get on them? What's the battery life like?
My cats have all been indoor cats, and only some of them have been willing to wear collars (the others find ways to ditch them and hide them under furniture), and most of the ones who hated collars were the ones least likely to be able to find their way back home if they got out. So changing batteries sounds like trouble.
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Most dogs are big enough that you've got more room for a useful device on a collar. Also, about half the cats I've owned were able to ditch collars and hide them under furniture.
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the product linked seems rather laxidasiy in the details.. there is no weight on the system, no battery specs (im looking for just an aH rating for sanity purposes, i find the 7 to 14 days really optimistic)
go to the product page, and there is no description in depth so the small is an 11 in to 14 in neck at only 3/4" thick yet on the large its 1 inch thick for 20 to 26 inch necks.. so are they all the same specs? how much weight is going to be around a small dogs neck..
also on the connected leash, they have a magnetic connection that holds 150 psi, well how big are the surfaces? i mean if its a .5" square connection then it could only hold 75 lbs. on top of that, a 70 lb dog could pull more than 150 psi easily
on top of that from the latest update:
https://www.dogtelligent.com/blogs/blog_1st_big/84312580-project-update-23-connected-collar
their first point to note is increased media coverage, that should tell you alot...
the second point is that they filed a patent
the third point is that they found a new engineering TEAM! because the first team was the cause of the delay... for something planned to ship Q1/Q2 of 2016 i am rather suspect of their ability.
oh and a little bit on the patent, its for their training program.. or maybe one of their patents are related to that.. i have yet to see a patent number anywhere on the site.
https://www.dogtelligent.com/pages/our-story
not a single engineer among them.... 3 advisors, 2 designer, a marketer...
"We want our pets to benefit from what makes our own lives better: a healthy lifestyle, made happier and more enriching through connected technology"
how is a dog's life going to be enriched through technology. this drivel is purely to enhance the owners life by offloading some of the things he/she should be doing with their pet. my dog wont be healthier because i put a bunch of sensors on her, she will be healthier because i pay attention to what she eats and spend a shit tonne of time with her outdoors and having fun with her in essence the act of disconnecting is good for my dog and my self.
disclaimer: I reside with a dog, I actually spend time with my dog, so i don't need to know any of the data points that this thing would give me, it seems like this is the project of a non dog owner trying to make a product for dogs (or a very lazy dog owner). plus my dog was chipped a few months after i got her, its a rfid tag that is implanted into her and the majority of animal rescue personnel will scan for those things.
in fact this one reeks of battery less Bluetooth locating tags.