The Pet Phone remote food dispenser

No, it's not a phone for your pet Mr. Sillypants — you don't really think someone would manufacture a pet cellphone do ya!? Oh right, this is Japan we're talking 'bout. Anywho, the Pet Phone is primarily a cell phone controlled remote feeder for pets who enjoy the hard kibble variety of pet food and the occasional chat with their owner through built-in speakers and microphone. Just slap a few keys on your cellphone while making your clandestine ferret rendezvous and out drop those glorious bits of galloping foodstuffs. Little Licky Puppy will be none the wiser.

[Via Techie Diva]

[Robert @ Dec 19th 2005 2:05AM]

This reminds me of the ISeePet, another japenese cration which is a pet feeder with a webcam attached to it, you connect the ethernet port to your LAN which has an internet connection and you can check on your pet over the Internet. I assume they can view video over the internet with a mobile phone in Japan anyway.

[silvscorp @ Dec 19th 2005 2:05AM]

About 3 years ago, a high school kids in China already invented something similar to this. He tabbed regular phone signal to activate a small solenoid which opens the food dispenser for his fishtank.

[pg @ Dec 19th 2005 2:05AM]

maybe a robot arm which strokes the cat can be attached..

[Craig @ Dec 19th 2005 2:05AM]

But my dog can't read Kanji.

[Daryl @ Dec 19th 2005 2:05AM]

umm, it would be cool if it held dog food, and you could remotely trigger it to feed the dog while your away. I want to build the Make Magizine VCR cat food dispenser, because with that you can program the vcr timer to feed the cat/dog.

[David G. Hong @ Dec 19th 2005 2:05AM]

My dog will rape this thing. Hard.

[Al @ Dec 19th 2005 2:05AM]

Ah ah, it's so cool. My dog would LOVE it... but I should teach him how to use the remote controller!

[Raymond Gravelle @ Dec 19th 2005 2:05AM]

This is most interesting. I would like to license or market this.