Dog LED tail light broadcasting

If elephants can send SMS, we may as well outfit our dogs with some airtexting equipment, right? This ultra-bright LED that attaches to Fido's tail and uses that whole persistence of vision thing to display programmed messages is still on the fanciful tip, but clearly some technophile dog owner noticed the gaping void that remains in the growing dog electronics market (there are already doggie cellphones and digital cameras).

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[dramjo @ Dec 19th 2005 1:22AM]

I am sure this dog will be "respected" by its peers: �Woff woff!!! woff woff woff woff� (That�s dog for, �like, wow!, your tail is on fire�). This is just like your mother forcing to wear a dorky sweater and a pocket protector before sending you off to your first day of school. I think we all know what happens next!

[Right @ Dec 19th 2005 1:22AM]

Yeah, a dog get's no respect in the hood rocking one of those... then again, dogs are dumb, what difference is it to them.

[010111 @ Dec 19th 2005 1:22AM]

he'll get props in the hood if all his tail ever says is swears and racially (other dog breeds not like people) derogatory statements. of course... you might not want to actually hang out with your dog if it says stuff like that.

completely unrelated... but i got some good chuckles the other day reading the "Dogblog".

http://www.automatedredemption.com/flavorcountry/dogblog/

[me @ Dec 19th 2005 1:22AM]

isnt that just a photoshop?

[OctaneZ @ Dec 19th 2005 1:22AM]

if you go look at the site you will see that it is all a joke.

[OctaneZ @ Dec 19th 2005 1:22AM]

forgot you can't do links:
http://www.auger-loizeau.com/augani_pop_01.html
http://www.auger-loizeau.com/augani_pop_02.html
http://www.auger-loizeau.com/augani_pop_03.html

okay, evidently can't have more that three h t t p lines.... (and it uses a VERY stupid regexp to check)

www.auger-loizeau.com/augani_pop_04.html
www.auger-loizeau.com/augani_pop_05.html

[gopi @ Dec 19th 2005 1:22AM]

It looks kinda cool, but I don't have a dog. Can I get one for an Aibo?

[fdisk @ Dec 19th 2005 1:22AM]

Now all we need is a hack that can get the Bow Lingual to translate what the dog's barks mean, and wirelessly transmit them to the LED setup, so my dog can more easily tell me that he wants to kick my ass for making him wear the tail lights

[Maniac @ Dec 19th 2005 1:22AM]

My dog doesn't need that. Maybe my lazy cat.

[Maniac @ Dec 19th 2005 1:22AM]

My dog doesn't need that. Maybe my lazy cat.