[nagdu] Fw: [Nfbf-l] Someday Your Guide Dog May Have Their Own WearableTechnology

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Everyone of us will be using wearable computers in some form or another. 
This has been in the works since the 1970's. 


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Fascinating!

Sherri
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From: "Alan Dicey" <adicey at bellsouth.net>
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Someday Your Guide Dog May Have Their Own Wearable Technology Wearable
computing seems to be the next frontier. The Pebble watch and Google Glass
are being raved about, but wearable technology doesn't just have to be for
humans. Researchers at Georgia Tech are working on a system called FIDO, or
Facilitating Interactions for Dogs with Occupations. The idea is that the
dog could activate a sensor that would then transmit either a verbal command
into a headset or a visual command onto a screen. For example, a bomb
sniffer dog could tell his handler what kind of bomb it is, or a rescue dog
could alert someone that he found an injured person. A guide dog could tell
us that there is an obstruction to our right or in front of us. According to
the article in technology review, "In an early study, the researchers
equipped a dog vest with an Arduino microprocessor and tested four different
sensors that dogs could activate by biting, tugging, or putting their mouth
nearby. The three service dogs participating in the test quickly learned to
activate the sensors to set off a tone."
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