Cats go 'tweet' in Japanese not 'nya'

[Taro Toporific]

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Sony Makes Cats Tweet With Wearable Lifelogging Device
June 1, 2010 -- Nikkei Electronics -- Tech-On!
Sony Computer Science Laboratories (CSL) Inc exhibited a lifelogging device for cats at Open House 2010, which took place May 28, 2010....prototyped in collaboration with the University of Tokyo, is equipped with a camera, an acceleration sensor, a GPS, etc to record the activities of a cat....The device can be used with the Twitter service and automatically ...more...

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Sony isn't breaking new ground here, given that home made cat cams have been around for a while, although I don't know how many hackers have built ones that can tweet.

http://www.mr-lee-catcam.de/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelbenjamin/sets/72157602652072917/

[Taro Toporific]

Sony isn't breaking new ground here...although I don't know how many hackers have built ones that can tweet.

The primitive AI abilities of this device to clog the Twitter-verse with junk Tweets is rather kool.

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp -- 2010 June 01

....Using the data collected by the acceleration sensor, GPS, etc, the device deduces the activities of a cat such as walking, sleeping and eating.

The device can be used with the Twitter service and automatically posts comments in accordance with the activities. The lifelog data is first transmitted to a PC via Bluetooth, and, then, comments are posted on Twitter. For example, it is possible to automatically post a comment like "This tastes good" when a cat is eating something.

Currently, only fixed phrases can be used as comments for Twitter, and there are 11 phrases available. But Sony CSL is planning to increase the number of phrases and add a function to change comments in accordance with the preceding action. For example, if a cat eats something after taking a walk, a comment like "Meals taste better after a walk" is posted on Twitter,
...the device has a function to recognize other cats' faces taken by the camera embedded in the device.