A mere eleven years after the inventors of Bow-Lingual were awarded the Ig Noble Peace Prize, Con Slobodchikoff, professor emeritus at Arizona State University and President and CEO of Animal Communications, Ltd., explains how near we are to having computer-aided communications with some animals. Megan Garber interviewed Slobodchikoff for The Atlantic. Here’s a bit of that interview: […]
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Ig-winning dog/human device gets an upgrade
Japanese toymaker Takara Tomy says it will launch a talking version of its Bowlingual gadget that can “translate” dog barks into the human language. The new model analyses 6 emotions, including joy, sadness and frustration, and speaks phrases such as “Play with me!” — an improvement on the original which just showed them on a […]