Talking Dog Device Ready to Hit Market Soon

[yuiyoshida]

What if your dog could greet you with more than a growl, or announce the reason he's scratching at the door?

It sounds absurd and much like the storyline from the Pixar film, “Up,” but Scandinavian scientists are working to develop a headset that could soon allow your furry best friend to speak his mind.

The Nordic Society for Invention and Discovery is the brains behind “No More Woof” -- technology that aims to distinguish canine thought patterns and then issue them as short sentences via a microphone.

“The brainwaves differ quite a lot from different races as well as individual dogs,” NSID writes on their website. “However it is possible to detect some common patterns and we have no doubt that in the future this technology will open up a vast new era of communication between dogs and humans, or animals in general and humans.”

http://gma.yahoo.com/talking-dog-device-ready-hit-market-soon-163302793--abc-news-topstories.html

[JHB]

1. Obligatory "SQUIRREL!"

[ret5hd]

2. .

[yuiyoshida]

3. My Cat would disaprove ....

Providing if he wanted to speak his mind.. or not.

[xchrom]

4. 'do you have a cookie?' 'is that something to eat?" 'can i have some of that?'

'WALKING!' 'is that something to eat?'

more or less what my dogs say.

[shenmue]

5. "Pet me"

"Can I go on the couch? Scratch my tummy, please. More biscuits!"

[madokie]

6. It would be cool if this lead to dogs learning to talk

or maybe even reason to an extent. Our dog seems to be able to decipher what we're telling her, of course she's been with us for 15 plus years, since she was 3 months old

[get the red out]

7. I wanna run I wanna run

I wanna run my turn my turn my turn!!!!!

I would be hearing that the entire time I was at an agility trial. Actually, I already do in the form of "whine whine whine bark bark"

[FrodosPet]

8. It's already been done

[FSogol]

9. "bacon-bacon-bacon-bacon-bacon-bacon-bacon...." (removes batteries)

[MADem]

10. I have a dog that goes ballistic over that commercial.

It can be playing in the other room, and she will race from one room to the other to bark, angrily and frantically, at the screen until the commercial ends.

She's a rescue and she came to me with this quirk. I suspect her previous owner thought the behavior cute, or something. She also thinks that dogs on the tee vee are real and can get her.

My other dog looks at her like she's nuts...!

[Botany]

13. My lab would be saying .... "are you really going to eat all of that sandwich?"

[chrisa]

11. "Take this stupid thing off me!"

[FSogol]

14. Or: I peed in your shoes because I luv you.

[meow2u3]

12. 1. I want to go bye-bye

2. Feed me--now!

3. Get off the computer and pet me--or else I'll pee on the floor!