Tag: ANIMAL

We've seen birds tasked with carrying around sensors in order to provide data about external happenings, but up until now, tracking birds' migration patterns from start to finish has been a tedious, if not impossible task. Gurus from York University in Toronto have apparently figured out the solution, and it all sounds much simpler than you might imagine. By equipping birds with minuscule ...

We're going out on a limb here and assuming that the Haute Diggity Dog iBone comes jailbroken and ready to rock, or at least that's the impression we get from checking out that heretofore unseen bevy of icons. Customized for the "tech savvy dog on the go," this here iPhone chew toy gives dear Fido access to bark / hand-shake training, posture lessons, Washington Huskies sports updates (it's the ...

Just under a year ago, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced his hopes that one day he could pinpoint the location of his black Labrador, Koni, at any time of the day. Today, a dream has been realized. Mr. Putin has finally procured a satellite collar that will enable him to track the lab regardless of which of the eleven times zones she may be in while waltzing through Russia. Once ...

It's hard to say if the pigeon you see above actually understood what he / she was doing, but apparently these birds can be taught to at least play App Store games in a very poor manner. The creature's owner does note that Mr. Pigeon was pretty awful at racking up high scores on Tap Tap Revenge, but the important thing to realize here is that pigeon pecks do register as presses on the screen. ...

The Society for the Study and Protection of the Mediterranean Seal (what a mouthful), or MOm, have fitted a baby monk seal with a cellular transmitter that will keep them updated via text message. After the seal was rescued in rough seas only a few hours after being born, MOm nursed the adorable creature back to health and trained it to survive on its own. Before setting the newly feral seal ...

YouTube ... ain't it grand? Without its endless, ever-expanding library of videos from around the globe, we'd have to live in Japan in order to to watch a female game show contestant tease a captive polar bear -- in a seal costume. Why didn't they ever do stuff like this on 'Fear Factor'? From OhGizmo! Related Links: 'Zelda' Spoof Exposes Link as a Perv! College Offers YouTube 101 Course ...

Does your neighbor's dog bark incessantly all day and night, or worse, tell you to kill? Put down the arsenic-laced Scooby snacks and instead pick up Bark Free, a nifty little gadget that silences the sound of a dog barking from 30, 50 or 60 feet away depending on the model. When Fido barks, Bark Free flips on and emits ultrasonic sound waves, which are undetectable to the human ear. When the ...

Is that engraved, dog bone-shaped tag dangling from your pooch's collar a little too low-tech for ya? You're not alone. A company called eTags has developed a more high-tech option dubbed the Dog-e-Tag. It's a $30-$40 electronic tag that includes a four-line LCD screen that you can program with your pet's name and your phone number. But, with up to 40 lines of information available to scroll ...

Instead of TiVo-ing a few episodes of Discovery's 'Planet Earth' series and calling yourself a nature lover, get out there and experience it for yourself! Enhance your live-action viewing pleasure with the diminutive Makroskop MS 82x5 from MINOX, which pulls double duty as both a telescope and microscope. In telescope mode, the $230 water-proof handheld wonder boasts a field of view of 375 feet. ...