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Ananova
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Gadget
that Communicates With Dogs Invented in Japan
JAPAN
- A gadget which promises to help dog owners understand their pet's
emotions and demands has been invented in Japan.
The canine communicator
could be on sale there next Spring for as little as £60. It uses
a 200-word vocabulary to explain a dog's emotions.
It claims to be
able to translate dog sounds into common human emotions such as frustration,
menace, hunger, joy and sorrow.
The Bow-lingual
consists of a two inch microphone which is attached to a dog's collar
to transmit sounds to a palm-sized console held by the animal's owner.
An occurrence of
several sounds indicating the same emotion automatically generates sentences
such as: "I feel lonely, play with me more".
Roger Mugford, a
psychologist who specialises in how animals interact with humans, said
the device had a sound scientific basis. "There are common elements
to the speech of every dog. Just as with humans, every dog develops
a personal and idiosyncratic speech of its own," he said.
Dogs use at least
16 different basic barks, as well as forms of meta-communication similar
to the looks and frowns used by humans, says the Daily Telegraph.
But Dr Mugford said
the canine communicator ought not to be necessary. "If a dog owner
is so uninformed about his pet that he needs a computer to interpret
what it wants, then he should not be a dog owner," he said.
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