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Mephista, researchers are getting there but as I understand it the job is quite complicated. I think the best they've got are sniffers for specific substances. |
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Why not just have a tag with a magnetic signature on your dog's collar? The reader on the dog door would have to be able to read the tag from some distance away...you could use a tiny transmitter, all sorts of things. |
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I am quite chuffed that MY dog barks very rarely. I do not wish to teach him to bark more. |
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Those are baked, Dog Ed. A link appears. |
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Give the dog or cat a Paw Pilot or some Paw /Bark/ Meow Recognition Software or a Bark Code Scanner or a Mouse for the cat or... |
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Starchaser's link seems to be the solution. You don't want the pet door swinging open every time your dog barks. |
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The linked door looks very cool... especially if it can be made to make a Star Trek style "choosh" sound as it opens & closes. |
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Heh...I don't think it actually opens and closes in that way. The last time I saw one of these <for a cat>, it had a lock that held the door shut until one of the keys came close to it, then it unlocked until the key moved away. It still worked the same as a normal cat flap... |
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Hey, cool, thanks Tech Tyger. |
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was the poo trying to get in or out? |
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I like the nuttiness of dog-bark recognition, myself. + |
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I saw the same show with the neighbor breaking into the house through the dog door. Neither the magnetic device nor the dog bark door would stop the neighbor who is friendly with the dog. The dog bark system is good though; you just have to teach the dog to bark "under duress" if someone is making him do it and that will call for help. |
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Yeah, after all, the neighbours would need some sort of crazy 'casette' 'recording' device to record your dog's bark to get around this one before stealing your stuff... |
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Looks like this could be used as an easy way into your house by a persistent burgaler. He could just swipe a Nickelodeon(tm) Brand Super Secret Spy Tape Recorder with Oozing Goo Compartment from his ten-year-old, sample your dog's wooferation, and in two shakes of a Lab's tail wriggle through the new entrance to gain access to your prized collection of Hank Williams, Sr. 8-tracks. |
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[PyramidHead] You should be smart enough to know that the system under discussion here would be good enough to distinguish between the barks directed at the doggie door and those directed at your cassette recorder. Anyone who has an ounce of perception and has spent any time at all around dogs would know the simple fact that dogs just will not participate in a fraudulent replay attack. You too, brettjs. |
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But what about the old "hide the voice-activated recorder in the bush beside the doggy door" trick? |
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I agree that bark recognition could be a problem. But what about auto-aligning laser long-range doggy retinal scan? (With a safety feature to verify blood flow through the retina, to make sure some jerk didn't just yank poor Fiddo's eyeball out!) |
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I like the idea as long as it works both ways or lets the dog out without barking or a on-off switch for the inside. Only problem for me is that my dog doesn't bark unless we tell him to repeatedly. Can't train him either, too stupid. |
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The speak command wouldn't work for my dog either, but a brief picture of the mailman would be perfect. |
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Thought about posting something with a video door bell for
pets, dug this idea up |
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// a video door bell for pets // |
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Unwise ... some dogs would let anyone in if they've got food on offer; and cats wouldn't even bother to go and look at the monitor. |
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I'm not goanna start with lizard puns. |
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We saurian that one coming ... |
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