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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
(37,166 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,871 posts)Providing if he wanted to speak his mind.. or not.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)'WALKING!' 'is that something to eat?'
more or less what my dogs say.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)"Can I go on the couch? Scratch my tummy, please. More biscuits!"
madokie
(51,076 posts)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
(13,468 posts)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
(5,169 posts)FSogol
(45,582 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)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
(70,639 posts)chrisa
(4,524 posts)FSogol
(45,582 posts)meow2u3
(24,776 posts)2. Feed me--now!
3. Get off the computer and pet me--or else I'll pee on the floor!