Cat-blogging

[tamaranth]

Cut out the middle ape! Let your cat blog! Or at least Twitter ...
[Sony's] lifelogging device, which was prototyped in collaboration with the University of Tokyo, is equipped with a camera, an acceleration sensor, a GPS, etc to record the activities of a cat. Using the data collected by the acceleration sensor, etc, the device deduces the activities of a cat such as walking, sleeping and eating. The device can be used with the Twitter service and automatically posts comments in accordance with the activities.

But the really scary thing?
the device has a function to recognize other cats' faces taken by the camera embedded in the device. Sony CSL realized this function by using the facial images of several thousands* of cats that are available on the Internet as reference data

What, like



ozymandias_cat already has a blog and does not need instaTwitter.
At 3:45pm Ozymandias_cat said: Sleeping.
At 4:15pm Ozymandias_cat said: Sleeping.
At 4:45pm Ozymandias_cat said: Sleeping gowayleaveme'lone
At 5:00pm Ozymandias_cat said: Sleeping.
At 5:01pm Ozymandias_cat said: IZ DINNER TIME Y/Y?
At 5:02pm Ozymandias_cat said: IZ DINNER TIME Y/Y?
At 5:03pm Ozymandias_cat said: IZ DINNER TIME Y/Y?
... etc for another hour, I am Cruel...
At 6:00pm Ozymandias_cat said: NOM NOM NOM
At 6:10pm Ozymandias_cat said: Sleeping.
At 6:45pm Ozymandias_cat said: Sleeping
*I think they mean 'billions'.

Comments

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

If it could tweet "I am waiting outside the front door let me in plz" that would be useful.

[shui-long.livejournal.com]

But five minutes later it would be "I am waiting inside the front door: how dare you go back to your computer and ignore my need to be let out NOW"...

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

Or in Panda's case :

4am Bounced on tin opener. Yay!
4.01 am Have learned to fly.
4.02 am Bored now
4.03 am On garden table
4.33 am Noisy blackbird
5.33 a.m. Blackbird has stopped squawking.
5.35a.m. Blackbird taste funny.
5.55 a.m. Post blackbird under sofa
6.00 a.m. BREAKFAST NOW !

[themonkeycats.livejournal.com]

11pm Settlin down now. --Humbug
11.01pm Play with me! --Leicester
11.02pm SPLAT!
11.03pm Bet you can't open teh wardrobe. --Humbug
11.04pm Bet I can if I climb up and bounce on the handle. --Leicester
11.09pm Maybe not... --Leicester
11.10 But I can climb curtains and pounce on the stereo. --Leicester
11.15 Wow! Now kill the aerial. --Humbug
11.20 Oi! Why is apedad shutting me out of bedroom? --Leicester
11.20 Now all teh aerial belong to Meeeee! --Humbug
11.21 Oi! What did I do? --Humbug
11.22 Let me back in. Hummy made me do it! --Leicester.
11.23 I was tellin him to STOP! Let me back in! --Humbug
11.25 Hi Humbug. --Leicester
11.25 Hi Leicester. --Humbug
11.26 Is good here on teh landing. Let's play lions'n'wildybeest'n'crash-into-teh-bedroom-door-a-lot! --Leicester
11.26 SPLAT! CRASH! SQUEAK! THUD! etc...