Humans for Dogs

Get email when your dog leaves the yard

Attach the collar to your dog.  Define the area you think your dog should stay in (i.e., the backyard, Chase!) When your dog leaves that area, you'll get an email that says he's left AND the location where your dog is at the moment.  If this is going to work for Chase, it better send an update every thirty seconds.

The device is supposed to be out by the end of the year and will cost $300 plus a $13 monthly fee.  As to what this means if applied to children is a topic I will leave for another time.

The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > What's Next: For the Fretting Pet Owner, a Wireless Distress Signal

What would you pay to find out how much pain your pet was in?

Having personally spent a good deal of time worrying about my dog and wondering what yelps of pain really mean - is she in pain all the time?  just when she yelps?  how much pain?  does it just startle her or is is excruciating? - I know I would pay a significant amount of money to answer the question "how much pain is my dog in?"  Well, now, thanks to an Ohio nurse, I can find out.   She's developed a $600, palm sized device that measures stress, a good indicator of pain level.  She's selling them to vets, but I bet wealthy individuals would be willing to buy them, and I bet a whole bunch of us would be willing to rent them when trying to diagnose chronic health problems in our pets.

Ohio researcher designs, builds device to measure pets' pain

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Germans unleash electronic guide dog | The Register

Germans unleash electronic guide dog | The Register

This is a voice enabled GPS that helps blind people figure out where they are.  It obviously cannot help them avoid obstacles like cars like a guide dog can.  Together with a guide dog it might be really powerful.