Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
something for all you guys with itchy trigger fingers out there..... waiting for the season to start I 
I saw this in the European Cellular news just the other day.....
Some while back, when the times were still good, Nokia was happily predicting that the reason mobile phone sales would continue to grow was because people would have several apiece. You know, the cool one for clubbing, the chunkier one for email, the waterproof one for scuba-diving... Well that all turns out to be far too unimaginative - why the blazes stop at people?
The fiendish Finns (who else) at Benefon have developed mobile phones for dogs, and aparently convinced at least one vertical market that there's a compelling use for them. It's part of a co-development effort with Pointer, which makes tracking devices for hunting dogs, and it combines GSM and GPS, so you know where your dog is. But um, why are you phoning it?
Well, you're telling it what to do, for starters, and ( I realise this bit is difficult to believe, but it's August ) you can tell what kind of animal the hound's onto by its bark. I presume that if the dog's phoned you, then the phone has to be woof-activated.
Big sales for it in September, when the Finns start going after elk.
I saw this in the European Cellular news just the other day..... Some while back, when the times were still good, Nokia was happily predicting that the reason mobile phone sales would continue to grow was because people would have several apiece. You know, the cool one for clubbing, the chunkier one for email, the waterproof one for scuba-diving... Well that all turns out to be far too unimaginative - why the blazes stop at people?
The fiendish Finns (who else) at Benefon have developed mobile phones for dogs, and aparently convinced at least one vertical market that there's a compelling use for them. It's part of a co-development effort with Pointer, which makes tracking devices for hunting dogs, and it combines GSM and GPS, so you know where your dog is. But um, why are you phoning it?
Well, you're telling it what to do, for starters, and ( I realise this bit is difficult to believe, but it's August ) you can tell what kind of animal the hound's onto by its bark. I presume that if the dog's phoned you, then the phone has to be woof-activated.
Big sales for it in September, when the Finns start going after elk. 
