According to Wired, a new cell phone for dogs is due to hit the store shelves soon. I’m not sure how cell phone part would be all that helpful at least for me, but the GPS and camera part would be pretty cool:
The ability to track a lost pet has most dog lovers excited. The PetCell has a “call owner” button in case Rover strays. It also includes assisted GPS, or A-GPS, which works indoors, allowing dog owners to map their pup’s coordinates from any web-enabled device or by dialing a voice-enabled call center.
“When dogs disappear, it’s the first 15 minutes that are the most important,” said San Francisco dog trainer Youngblood Harris. “If your dog runs out of the dog park and you don’t see if he went left or right, (PetCell) would make life a lot easier,” Harris said.
The PetCell will also have an option called GeoFence that will alert owners whenever their dog wanders beyond preset parameters, and built-in temperature sensors to indicate if the dog is too hot or cold.
Additionally, the PetCell will support a small wireless camera, an application Robb believes could be useful in search-and-rescue or bomb-squad missions. But for patrons of doggy day care, it may become the canine equivalent of a nanny cam.
One of the times that Audrey got out of her harness was at night and I had NO idea where she ran off to because she took off so fast and it was dark (black Greyhounds are elusive that way)… but eventually she came back. The GPS would be ingenious for a situation like that. I’ve already had her chipped, but even that seems pretty arcane at this point compared to the other GPS type technologies available for different applications such as tracking cell phones.
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