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No More Woof in Sweden:

http://www.nomorewoof.com/

http://oresundstartups.com/no-more-woof-aims-read-dogs-minds...

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/no-more-woof

TLDR: they sell brain-scanning equipment that translates your dog's thoughts into human language.

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Robust classification of EEG data from humans in real time in controlled environments (no motion, perfect contact quality, on subjects you can communicate with, etc) is difficult enough. It's part of the R&D that I do now. But on pets? How do you keep them still enough and the sensors seated and wet? Is the classification purely based on unsupervised learning? How the heck does one gather meaningful training data?

My skepto-meter is really pinging on this one. Especially with the flex-funding model.

Is there any evidence this actually works? I see lots of talk but absolutely no demo. Not even a proof of concept demo.

Studio Total (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Total) who are involved with the product are known to do crazy stuff to get PR, like the 'teddybear airdrop' over Minsk. Some things they make buzz about does not exist yet :)

Damn, that's pretty awesome. Looks pretty legit too. Now to just decode every dogs' actions into what we "think" it means.

Wow! That looks really awesome! Thanks for the tip.

That's crazy ! Add a human-to-dog feature and the duplex is complete

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