Temptations Made a Collar That Finally Gives Your Cat a Human Voice, So It Can Talk to You

Adweek ^ | April 28, 2016

[SMGFan]

Since the dawn of time, humans have been confounded by cats, those mystifyingly aloof creatures whose inner thoughts are famously inscrutable. But no longer! Temptations Cat Treats has invented a cat collar that lets your feline speak in a human voice—so you can finally understand (though probably not) exactly what she is trying to tell you.

The Temptations Catterbox, created by London ad agency adam&eveDDB, contains a microphone, speaker, Bluetooth technology and wifi. It captures the cat's meows and translates them into human speech—words that may or may not actually be what they're trying to say.

[Bellflower]

I adopted a cat that was very mean for a while and use to corner my other cat in the basement. You could plainly hear my poor cornered cat yelling “HELP ME, HELP ME” until we came down and rescued him. It was hard to deny because he yelled it so clearly.

[Gefn]

I don’t know why but I’m reminded of the Simpsons episode with Danny DeVito as Homer’s brother Herb, who invents a baby monitor that tells you what every baby is feeling.

Instead of Maggie saying “Feed me” you will have Snowball 2 saying “Feedme”.

I think the good folks from Mars are Simpsons fans like me.

[MarkL]

I read that cat’s have a rather wide range of vocalizations, however they only “meow” to people, not other cats.

I think that there is a single meaning to a cat’s “meow.”

“Figure out what I want, and do it now!”

Mark

[RedWulf]

>“Figure out what I want, and do it now!”

Ha! So true.