Friday, June 23, 2006

Talk to the Dog

From an old (1105) post on DefenseTech:

Dog translator technology.
Dog Translator (Price: $10,000 and up)
Worn on a collar or mounted on a wall, the Dog Bio Security System translates barking into alarms for police or military. Bio-Sense Technologies spent two years capturing the sound waves of woofs and arfs, encoding them to be read by a digital signal processor. All dogs emit the same type of bark when they sense trouble.


And then there are GERBILS...

Security Serivce MI5 once planned to recruit a team of specially-trained gerbils as a secret weapon to sniff out spies, it has been revealed.

The animals were to help interrogate suspects because they could use their acute sense of smell to detect a rise in adrenalin - the chemical released in sweat when people feel under stress....

But MI5 dropped the plans (to detect hijackers) after it was discovered the gerbils could not tell the difference between terrorists and passengers who were scared of flying.

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