Just when you think you've given your dog everything it could ever want (gold plated water dish, rhinestone collar, a copy of Tegan and Sara's "The Con" on vinyl) the Japanese go and one up you. A Tokyo-based content provider named Dwango announced today that it would start selling specialized ringtones which can be heard only by dogs. The service, called
Inu ni shika kikoenai chakushinon (ringtones only dogs can hear) will make free downloads available to current DoCoMo i-mode subscribers. No word on whether the company will provide Bluetooth headsets and holsters suited to our canine friends, but we understand plans are in the works for a line of bacon-themed wallpapers. [Warning: read link is a PDF, and it's in Japanese]
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posted Jun 20th 2008 8:11PM
Oh killer? I think it's for you
The thing is, most mobile phone speakers couldn't even put out noises at the frequency too high for humans.
Yeah I was wondering about that too, can those speakers even do 30KHz?
I know the ringtones 'your teacher can't hear' were in vogue with kids a while so that seemed to work, but that's 18-20KHz not even higher/
Epic Fail.
Nokia had that idea first! If only we would stop peddling their trade secrets...
Haha! Nice one!
Hey! Nokia doesn't make bicycles! sheesh.
Can't you see that the new N99 is already spec'd out with a lazers!
Discrimination against all other pets? what if i wanted to annoy not only my dog?
Many animals can hear higher pitched tones, cats, mosquitoes, ferrets, etcetera, they will all get annoyed.
They better hope that they don't get sued by T-Mobile for color infringement.
Who calls dogs?
If you don't call them, then how do you get them to come to you?
My dog took back her copy of Tegan and Sara's "the con" to the store. It was causing her severe seizures and I would start to get unbearable vertigo when played on the stereo. Unfortunately, the store clerk refused to take it back because of trace amounts of vomit on the cover. I was very remiss about the whole situation.
How does a dog know it's the only one who can hear it ?
After it rings a few times and nobody starts yelling at the dog to answer it, it figures it out.
I'll bet there isn't actually a ringtone at all...
You're just paying for silence..
So how would you even know your buying something?
Could just be a blank mp3!
thats most likely the case.
I wonder if this could be classified as Weapon of Mass destruction; Set these ring tones off, dogs will not shut up
kind of like those universal remotes that turn off tv sets. this can just turn dogs on.
Baxter?? Baxter, is that you?? Bark twice if you're in Michigan.
What kind of cell phones can reproduce tones that high? I'd imagine they'd top out at around 20kHz, which we know humans can hear.
First it was the Mosquito Ringtone. Now dog whistles.
OK. I'l bite: JetCityOrange.com/dog-whistle
I'm imagining that you would use this if your doggy has a holster for their own cellphone, and you call them to come and eat din din.
Because, honestly your mansion is so big, and it would take forever to find your doggy, so just call your doggy instead.
(please dear god, i hope i'm not dooming the world to a gadget that does exactly that, or now i have "inspired" someone to actually make something like that. it's all nokia's fault.)
Docomo? Weird, I would've picked Softbank for something like this.
You know a high-pitched whistle just upsets dogs, makes them all hyper.
Of course that's how you can tell it works, if it works, but do you want that?
I guess we have to keep in mind how dogs are viewed in japan, they have a very weird (to me) attitude to them, they keep them in large cages in the house I understand and they seem to treat them as dolls but don't seem to bond to them like westerners do, that's my impression from the information I came across over time at least.
Shiba Inus are the coolest dogs.
Presumably the point is dogs around you start barking when you get a call.. .What happens if there's none around? or if something else causes them to bark?