@Culturite says “This is straight out of UP!”

Via The Telegraph:

The gadget focuses on the detection of six emotions – including sadness, joy and frustration – alongside a recorded repertoire of spoken phrases such as “play with me”.

Bowlingual Voice will go on sale for £129 in Japan from next month and is a more technologically advanced version of a basic model launched seven years ago.

The gadget, which will be sold initially only in Japan, consists of a microphone which is placed around the dog’s neck alongside a hand-held unit operating device.

When the dog barks, the microphone records the sound and sends the data to the owner’s hand-held device which then “translates” it into what the dog is apparently trying to say.

A speech synthesizer audibly informs the owner of the dog’s apparent intentions as well as appearing on the screen of the wireless hand-held unit. A new answering machine function can also record the dog’s expressions of desire when owners are absent.

The original Bowlingual, which was not a talking device but translated emotions onto a screen, was bought by more than 300,000 in Japan when it was first launched. The new Bowlingual was unveiled at the Tokyo Toy Fair

Okay, here’s the thing: why? You know damn well this shit doesn’t really work and it’s all just guess work. Why don’t they make a Japanese-to-English translator for sexy schoolgirls. They only need to program it with four words: Yes, no, harder, and more.

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