“Some of the most easily detected neural patterns are: 'I'm tired', 'I'm
curious who that is' and 'I'm excited. To be completely honest, the first
version will be quite rudimentary. But hey, the first computer was pretty
crappy too”
Swedish research lab NSID (Nordic
Society for Invention and Discovery) comments on their IndieGogo Page about No
More Woof
Now it look like talking to Animals or at least Dogs may soon be
possible. No I’m not barking up the wrong tree with this one folks; this is for
real!
This bit of coming innovation for the New Year is thanks to a very
innovative application of EEG (Electro-Encephalography) developed by yet
another IndieGogo funded start-up, Swedish research lab NSID (Nordic Society
for Invention and Discovery) called No More Woof as
stated in “No
More Woof reads dog brainwaves, translates to speech”, published December
18, 2013 12:00 PM PST by Amanda Kooser, CNET
News.
A pledge on their IndieGogo
No More Woof campaign page, which aims to bring the product to market by
April 2014 is as follows:
1.
US$65 for a single sensor version of the No More
Woof Device that translates three Dog Thought patterns
2.
US$300 for a two-sensor version of the No More
Woof Device that translates four or more Dog Thought patterns
Albeit seen in the eyes of many as a joke, NSID is serious as per their IndieGogo No More Woof
campaign page. And yes it’s very similar to the concept presented in the
movie Up (2009) with the
Talking Dog Dug as shown below.
On NSID’s IndieGogo
No More Woof campaign page, they detail their aim of raising some US$10,000
to develop a custom Mind Reading device that’s basically a slimmed down EEG but
specifically for Dogs as stated in “Dog-to-English Translation
Headset Gets Funding”, published 24/12/2013, Mashable
and “'No
More Woof' headset for canines turns your dog's thoughts into spoken words”,
published MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2013, 12:07 PM, The NY Daily News.
No More Woof Project and
Interaxion’s Muse Mind Controller – Similar Concept but different Aims
The No More Woof
Project is very similar to another IndieGogo Project that launched a year
ago in December 2012 by Interaxion CEO Ariel Garten call the Muse Mind
Controller to allow humans to interact with Computers using their thoughts as
reported in my blog
article entitled “IndieGogo
funded Interaxion debut US$199 Muse Mind Controller at Le Web in France -
Future Silver Lining Playbook for Gaming that'll Exercise the Windmills of Your
Mind”.
For those of you who don’t know the Muse Mind Controller I’m not
surprised; it’s rated as a great party item to have along with Tailly the Wearable
Tail in my Geezam blog article entitled “Interaxion’s
Muse Mind Controller and Tailly the Wearable Tail”. It hasn’t receive
serious attention from developers though, which may explain any lack of news if
you Google “Muse Mind Controller”.
Effectively, it translates your Dog’s state of mind i.e. if he’s happy,
if he’s sad, if he’s curious about a stranger. I say “state of mind” as still
debatable whether or not animals even have thoughts like we humans do or if
it’s a case that they’re just preprogrammed creatures that work on instinct,
memory and inputs from their very acute physics senses.
The researchers at NSID plan to enable the No More Woof Project
with more “Dog Thoughts” and thus more phrases that the device can speak to
express the Gog’s state of mind. Whether or not this’ll lead to better
communications between Man and Dog remains to be seen.
Human to Animal Communications
is inevitable – Apple should buy NSID and Interaxion
Talking to Animals was an inevitable step that would make Mind Controller
Peripherals for computers appealing. After all, we already have a myriad of
innovative cutting edge ways to interact with Computers from Gestures to NL
Voice Commands.
Even Fingerprint readers on smartphones are a part of the mix and may
mark the rise of Biometrics and the death of password that made its debut on
the Apple iPhone 5S as stated in my blog article
entitled “Apple
iPhone and the Sapphire plated Touch ID Fingerprint scanner - The Death of
passwords and the birth of Biometrics”.
So it’s only natural that once we’ve begun talking to computers, we’d be
more interested in using these talking computers to not only talk to other
people who are disabled and cannot talk but to our furry four footed creatures
that can’t talk at all.
The difference here though between the Muse Mind Controller and the No More Woof Project
is that it’s aimed at two (2) totally different audiences. The No More Woof Project
is aimed at enable people who speak NL (Natural Languages) such as English Mandarin,
French and Spanish to understand what Dogs are feeling.
This by converting the universal language of your Dog Brain’s EEG’s via
attached sensors and a Raspberry Pi Microcontroller into phrases that are
enunciated by a Speaker attached to the wearable head unit as shown.
Effectively, it translates your Dog’s state of mind i.e. if he’s happy,
if he’s sad, if he’s curious about a stranger. I say “state of mind” as still
debatable whether or not animals even have thoughts like we humans do or if
it’s a case that they’re just preprogrammed creatures that work on instinct,
memory and inputs from their very acute physics senses.
The researchers at NSID plan to enable the No More Woof Project
with more “Dog Thoughts” and thus more phrases that the device can speak to
express the Gog’s state of mind. Whether or not this’ll lead to better
communications between Man and Dog remains to be seen.
Human to Animal Communications
is inevitable – Apple should buy NSID and Interaxion
Talking to Animals was an inevitable step that would make Mind Controller
Peripherals for computers appealing. After all, we already have a myriad of
innovative cutting edge ways to interact with Computers from Gestures to NL
Voice Commands.
Even Fingerprint readers on smartphones are a part of the mix and may
mark the rise of Biometrics and the death of password that made its debut on
the Apple iPhone 5S as stated in my blog article
entitled “Apple
iPhone and the Sapphire plated Touch ID Fingerprint scanner - The Death of
passwords and the birth of Biometrics”.
So it’s only natural that once we’ve begun talking to computers, we’d be
more interested in using these talking computers to not only talk to other
people who are disabled and cannot talk but to our furry four footed creatures
that can’t talk at all.
After all, every Dog lover would love to know what his or her charge has
on his mind or hot communicate with a sick, disable or even wounded animal in
order to better assist them as opined in the article “The
headset that can read your DOG'S MIND: Gadget claims to analyse brain waves to
transform inner barks into human speech”, published 19 December 2013 17:40
GMT by SAM WEBB, UK DailyMail.
Thus Apple’s interest in the application 3D Motion Capture technology to
their product line as evident from their purchase of Israeli-based company
Primesense, makers of Microsoft’s Kinect Motion Controller as outlined in my blog article
entitled “Apple
buys Israeli-based Primesense that makes the Microsoft Kinect - Apple's Siri
and Kinect Heralds of a coming world free of Remote Controls” may
eventually turn to Mind Controller Technology.
Apple seems to think Motion Control is important enough to purchases
Primesense. But with the very large market for Dog lovers which Amazon is
tapping into via the resurrection of Pet.com as Wag.com back in July 2011 as
noted in my blog
article entitled “Amazon's
Wag.com Social Network for Pets - Quidsi in the Flight of the Navigator”,
Apple may need to jump-start their research into Mind Controllers.
The easiest way to do that is by buying Interaxion and NSID with a bid to
integrate their products not into Apple gadgets but also develop a new line of
products geared at communicating not only with Dogs but All Animals, Cats
included. Cat and Dog lovers are bound to give this two (2) paws up, as this
would finally bridge the gap between Man Machine and Animal Kind!
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