Gets Talking Pussy!

[Caustic Saint]

Listen to your cat

First there was Bow-lingual, so you could understand what your dog was trying to tell you.

Now, Takara has come out with Meow lingual for cat owners. Working on the same principal as Bow-lingual, it reads a cat's voiceprint and interprets the feline's feelings and speech using a vocabulary of more than 200 words.

Next, Takara is going to install a communication mode that can help understand the cat's mood. The data analysis will even measure how well a cat is suited to its owner.

Meow Lingual, Takara
8,800 yen
Available from November 30, 2003
http://www.takaratoys.co.jp/top.html

[Taro Toporific]

Listen to your cat]

This device thing weighs more than my cat but I can really imagine chasing after it trying to hold the Meowlingual close to its mouth. Here, Kitty, kitty, kitty...
Ultra pointed out a great line from Crispy which would fit cats as well from this old thread called, Re: 148,000 yen for dog emotion sensor ]

148,000 yen for dog emotion sensorBowlingual

Uh, this insanely expensive device does the same thing that any human who has spent enough time with dogs can do themselves. Dogs aren't the most emotionally guarded animals out there...

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Cats to speak in 'human'
Tokyo / 16jul03 / The Advertiser, AU///The device will be priced at 8,800 yen ($115), less than the 14,800 yen ($184) dog owners pay for Bowlingual.

[Caustic Saint]

Cats who don't require this device:

http://www.rathergood.com/independent_woman/

[Taro Toporific]

Cats who don't require this device:Tom Foolery

Ah, even here at work with a completely neutered sound card that's greatTom Foolery

[Taro Toporific]

oops
Damn, no more posting for me for the rest of the day.

[Caustic Saint]

oops
Damn, no more posting for me for the rest of the day.

Yeah, like that'll happen.

[Ptyx]

Those cats can rock

[American Oyaji]

If you pay attention to dogs and cats, they'll teach YOU how they communicate and you wont need a silly expensive device like that.
Especially smart dogs. Our family dog (An Akita) tells us what he wants. And he also understand fairly normal human speech.

By the way, Caustic Saint, what happened to your Noodle Chicken avatar?

And is THAT avatar from "Now and Then, Here and There"?

[Caustic Saint]

By the way, Caustic Saint, what happened to your Noodle Chicken avatar?

And is THAT avatar from "Now and Then, Here and There"?

Sadly, I lost the duck. (I thought it looked more like a duckling than a chick.) I had it linked from Nekobaba and it scrolled off their pages. Mistakenly, I thought I'd copied it to my server. It appears to be gone forever now. Shame too, I liked that one.

The current one is Naota from FLCL (or furikuri or Fooly Cooly, depending on how you want to say it). It's currently my favorite anime and one of the few I've watched more than once.