h a l f b a k e r yThe phrase 'crumpled heap' comes to mind.
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Dog owners tend to calculate their mutt's age in terms of "dog years" by multiplying the dog's age by some factor (5/6/7?), e.g. a 6-year old is ~40 in dog years, i.e. which in human terms is middle-aged.
This could be extrapolated into a product - a watch? - which not only works in dog years, but
also dog months, weeks, days, hours etc. This could be given to the pet as a birthday present for it to use, or be worn by the owner, so he/she can relate more closely to their animal.
A fancy multi-fauna-flora timepiece could be developed to encompass the relative life cycle of all living things. E.g. "what's the time in fruitbat?", or "Sorry I'm late for work, but I had my watch set to giant tortoise time, and so actually I'm five minutes early".
(?) doug77's link.
http://patft.uspto....850&RS=PN/5,023,850
Good idea though. [DrBob, Nov 17 2004]
(?) Dog wearing watch
http://patimg2.uspt...2526RS=PN/5,023,850
[skinflaps, Nov 17 2004]
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Way cool! Have to go now, it's hyrax lunchtime. |
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This is great! Could teach some empathy for other beings, too--your dog has waited 30 minutes for you to finish a 5-minute conversation, your hamster has been alone for 6 days while you put in 8 hours at work, and your pet fruit fly has raised a family in your fruit bowl over the weekend. |
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This idea is so great, somebody actually got a patent on it in 1991. Go to www.uspto.gov and search for Patent No. 5,023,850. There's even a patent drawing of a large dog checking the time on its watch. |
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Can anyone else see the images? I really want to see a big dog wearing a watch! |
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There you go [wagster] link. |
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Hmmm. Can't see it through that link either - no image loads, despite the fact that I'm now looking at it from a different machine / connections / everything. Had this the last time I looked at the US patent site - maybe the incompatibility issues lie with me. <Goes off to download [wagster] v2.6> |
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Not sure that patent meets 'not obvious'
or 'useful function' tests... |
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And you need to return to the text of
the article and click on 'images' since
each images session times out. |
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