Speak, Fido: Device Promises Dog Translations

Live Science ^ | January 03, 2014 | Marc Lallanilla

[DogByte6RER]

Speak, Fido: Device Promises Dog Translations

A dog may be man's best friend, but if people ever figure out what dogs are really thinking, will the friendship sour?

That's a risk that a few inventors in Europe are willing to take: They've received funding to develop "No More Woof," an electronic device that promises to analyze dogs' brain waves and translate a few of their thoughts into rudimentary English.

It's still a work in progress, but once No More Woof is ready for the market, it will join a wide range of other scientific efforts aimed at "breaking the language barrier between animals and humans," as the inventors state on their IndieGoGo.com fundraising page.

Developed by the design team at the Sweden-based Nordic Society for Invention and Discovery (NSID), the No More Woof is a lightweight headset, sized for dogs, with sensors that can record electroencephalogram (EEG) readings.

The EEG readings are then analyzed by a Raspberry Pi microcomputer, which will, according to NSID, be programmed to translate those EEG readings into simple phrases like, "I'm hungry," or "Who is that person?" Once translated, those phrases will be reported over a small speaker.

[DogByte6RER]

[cripplecreek]

No translation needed.



Damn its cold out here. You need to let me poop inside.

[volunbeer]

I already hear from my wife and three kids.... I might move into the barn if my German Shepherd starts telling me what she thinks too!

[Michael.SF.]

Well, we can always use them as a compass.

[Salamander]

It's been done.

;)

[Alex Murphy]

“Squirrel!”

[mountn man]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH0jWXq5vyU

[Jack Hydrazine]

Anti-bark shock collar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TYWmZUzBqA

[chajin]

It's been done.

You beat me to it :-)

[Salamander]

I have that pre-saved, just in case.

LOL

[Ezekiel]

[kjam22]

LOL

[Salamander]

Spot on.

[no pun intended]

;]

[Revolting cat!]

Dogs think in English? Who knew?

[Revolting cat!]

[Revolting cat!]

[Revolting cat!]

[Revolting cat!]

I have to tell you about the most educated dog I have known.

It happened at the dog park. A clearly upper class lady called to her purebred pooch before they got back into their Volvo to drive home to the hills to come to the community water fountain:

“Come on here Herbert, rejuvenate yourself!”

How many dogs do you know who would understand the word ‘rejuvenate’? How many low information voters, while we are at it?

[Revolting cat!]

[Bobalu]