3 ms·
This is so unbelievably stupid. You’re paying a subscription for prerecorded soundbytes on a collar. It’s not even a chatbot (which the article makes clear lat
by latexr 2y ago
This is so unbelievably stupid.
You’re paying a subscription for prerecorded soundbytes on a collar. It’s not even a chatbot (which the article makes clear later on, despite the title).
And the idea allegedly came to the guy when his dog was bitten by a snake and he thought “could I have helped the dog sooner if he had been able to tell me what happened?” Yeah buddy, you could have, but your collar wouldn’t have done that in the slightest.
- vunderba 2y agoLater in the article they do say it has "sound detection" and one of the sounds is a rattlesnake, but that's a pretty oddly specific niche use case. Other than that, 100% agree. The entire article reads like a 1000 word advertisement for the product. People who use something like this to anthropomorphize their pets remind me of the same pet owners who stuff their poor cats and dogs into ill-fitting christmas sweaters.