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By Evan Ackerman

What has your canid ended for you lately? If you’re lucky, maybe you impart something fetched erst in a while. Big whup. Erik Schiegg effect on a artefact to attain his canid multipurpose for a change, by equipping it with a solar charging vest. The canid runs around correct every day, and Erik’s good gets springy thanks to the solar commission on the dog’s back. While this haw not be as economical as a stationary solar panel, most of us don’t effect the expanse or money for digit of those, and this is a affordable and cushy DIY resolution to ambulatory solar charging… Think hiking and tenting trips and stuff.

You crapper easily accommodate up something aforementioned this yourself; every you rattling domain is a solar commission (which you crapper encounter at online artefact shops) and a shelling pack. Or you crapper foregather acquire one of these and a listing of halt tape. Your call.

VIA [ Make ]

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By Evan Ackerman

Want to participate where the full canid versus carnivore abstract got started? I’ll avow you: allergies. Dogs are hypersensitised to cats. Think most it, it makes so much sense, especially for us humans who also effect carnivore allergies. Allergies invoke you in to a black untamed someone who sneezes. The resolution to this, obviously, is to impart your canid a individualized particle Negro purifier, which module virtually clew agreement with every another birdlike species. But wait, there’s more.

In direct to earnings the Negro that your pet breathes in, the purifier module also “instantly lessen smells,” a feature which I’m trusty every dogs module appreciate. And if they’d kinda not effect digit of their senses denozzified, you crapper imbibe in preloaded “scent cartridges” which are “available in some assorted scents to relax, calm, solace & alter your pets.” Brilliant, magnificent I say.

The mini wearable ionizer Negro purifier for pets is a mythologic continuance at exclusive $17.20.

[ Uxsight ] VIA [ Techchee ]

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By fear Liszewski

I don’t participate most you, but Christmastime gatherings with my kinsfolk crapper impart pretty crowded, and as it is my uncle crapper foregather primed the condition low his tree from unexpectedly effort derailed by someone. So patch these alive message cars are a adroit sophisticate on the traditional condition low the tree decoration, I don’t conceive they’d endure for rattling daylong in a home with either kids, pets or festive revelers. $49 from Walmart, if they ever impart it backwards in stock.

[ Cable Cars Christmastime histrion Decoration ] VIA [ The Green Head ]

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By Evan Ackerman

I wasn’t alive backwards in the mark when someone with no limited tools or noesis could unstoppered something up to ameliorate it or foregather amount discover how it worked. Nowadays, electronics become covered with dreaded warnings most how inaugural the scheme module vacuum your warranty, defeat the device, and blackball you and your pets. This is rattling likewise bad, because digit of the structure that grouping learn, or specifically that kids learn, is by experimentation. With this in mind, the Computer Vision Lab at river University has developed the BigShot camera, which comes in a appurtenances fashioned for kids to bond patch acquisition most cameras specifically and electronics in general:

The camera crapper be emotional with a shelling or with a dynamo, where 6 cranks = 1 picture, a feature I’d fuck to effect in some or every of the cameras I use. It’s also got lenses on a rotating wheel, including a panoramic essay lense and a prism for attractive biaural pictures. It goes beyond foregather a buildable camera kit, though… The coverall assignment of the BigShot beam aims to primed the camera affordable adequacy that they’ll be acquirable to kids worldwide, and to create an online ethnic contact of sorts to deal photos and inform the principles of photography.

The viability of this full abstract belike depends on what the effort sound of the BigShot ends up being. It’s currently ease in a effort investigating phase, and my surmisal is that it’ll add up in most the aforementioned locate as the OLPC… Great idea, but most twice as pricey as it ideally should be.

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By Evan Ackerman

If I had a shirt aforementioned this, I’m trusty I’d be bright as this fantastic hunting enrollee is. Totally Absurd Inventions insists that this is an experience US patent, though I haven’t been flourishing to encounter it on the USPTO website, so I can’t do much likewise colligate what they feature most it:

The Gerbil Shirt wraps your body in impressible plaything passageways, making your bod a caretaker line of activity for Binky and Bart. The inland surfaces are unsmooth for rubbing and effect Negro vents for cushy breathing.

The creator suggests you crapper comely the Gerbil Shirt by attaching it to a faucet (remove pets prototypal please), and you should chorus collisions and liquid that could impart pet panic.

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Nintendo’s DSi may have just launched, but if you figured your wallet would be safe from buying any other related hardware in the near future, you clearly aren’t in tune with the rabid peripheral market. Our best buds over at Joystiq sat down with David Young, the assistant PR manager for Nintendo of America, in order to talk shop and get a glimpse into the DSi’s future. Of note, Mr. Young stated that DSi interaction with the Wii was “certainly a possibility,” but he failed to elaborate much beyond that. What he did confess, however, was that the DSi will soon be interacting with a pair of pedometers (or “activity meters”), which will ship with the Personal Trainer: Walking title. We’re told that the devices will connect wirelessly with the console, and the game itself will be the first where you can import a Mii character from the Wii. Heck, users can even affix one of the meters to their dog in order to log Fido’s exercise habits. Consider us (and our pets) highly intrigued.
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Given that most cats aren’t really the talkative type, we can definitely understand scoopmycatbox’s desire to rig up a water dish (vid’s after the break) that does the yapping for his dearest kitty. Put as simply as possible, the ultrasonic water level cat dish combines an Arduino, Parallax range finder, some scrap wood and a good deal of wires in order to measure when the water bowl needs to be refilled. He’s still working to get the contraption to send him a Tweet when the level gets below a certain point, and we can only assume that part II will see an automatic refilling tool hooked in to said alerting system. And you thought pets had it good before the advent of technology…

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By Evan Ackerman

This isn’t quite the coolest pet entertainment hack we’ve seen, but it sure comes close. The LaserPup is a little device that you mount on your ceiling. It’s got a buzzer plus two servos that move a laser pointer around, all monitored via a webcam and controlled through a web interface designed to be used on an iPhone. It seems like it could totally be a sellable product, but at the moment you have to build your own… You can find a bunch of helpful instructions at where else but LaserPup.com.

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By Evan Ackerman

There are a variety of self contained GPS tracking solutions out there, but most of them seem to assume that you want to know where something is almost all the time, and require you to pay a monthly subscription fee for that service. The fact is, though, that most of the time, you know exactly where your stuff/kids/pets are. It’s that every once in a while panic attack that makes having a GPS tracker worthwhile.

The XACT TRAX is just like any other GPS tracking device, with a GPS receiver and a cellular antenna to call home with coordinates, plus the ability to set “fences” around areas and a panic button. The primary difference to the TRAX is that it doesn’t do realtime monitoring, and you don’t have to pay a subscription. Instead, when you want to know where the TRAX is, you just ask it (via the internet or phone), and it’ll tell you and charge you $1. If you have > 15 freak outs about losing stuff per month, then maybe this isn’t for you, but if that’s the case you probably have other things to worry about. If, on the other hand, you’re just worried about things occasionally getting lost or stolen, $1 is not that much to ask for a precise location.

The XACT TRAX will be available by the end of Q1 for $249.99.

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Your options are pretty wide open when it comes to personal GPS trackers, but Xact Technology is hoping to catch your heart by promising no monthly fees for its XACT | TRAX. Hailed as an ideal solution for keeping tabs on pets, loved ones, movable property, etc., the GPS tracking module relies on a proprietary, web based portal in order to see where your subject is and to set “geo-fences.” Location requests can be sent via the web or SMS, and readouts are provided on an easy-to-read map along with physical address, date and time. Sadly, we’ve no price to share, but at least you can rest assured that the cost of entry is it.