{"id":1716,"date":"2022-01-19T11:58:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T19:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/anthem-dog-training\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2024-07-16T16:34:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T23:34:05","slug":"will-dog-phones-one-day-be-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/anthem-dog-training\/will-dog-phones-one-day-be-a-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Dog Phones One Day Be a Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As our technology progresses, so does <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/clermont-dog-training\/tips\/tech-helps-dogs\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dog tech<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Today, we have GPS collars, RFID doggy doors, and more, but what about dog phones? <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gla.ac.uk\/schools\/computing\/staff\/ilyenahirskyjdouglas\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, adjunct professor at the University of Glasgow<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, asked the same question and experimented to see how effective a dog phone would be. Her lab assistant: Zack, a 10-year-old labrador retriever!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In her experiment, she rigged a ball with a motion detection device to trigger a video call straight to her phone. \u201cI thought something like this could help the dogs somehow have options and more control,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archyde.com\/waiting-for-a-canine-phone-it-may-be-a-long-time-before-it-becomes-a-reality\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said Dr. Hirkyj-Douglass<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cWe decide so much about their lives that maybe just having this choice is exciting in and of itself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately, Zack was never trained on how to use the device. So, every call made was an accident, and the experiment was inconclusive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nevertheless, testing out the question is the first step to determining if dog phones are in our future. The pet tech industry has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gminsights.com\/industry-analysis\/pet-tech-market\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reached $5.5 billion in market value<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with the potential to reach more than $20 billion by 2027. This experiment questions the possibility of what pet tech can be and the extent to which it can help our co-dependencies. If pet phones were successfully tested, then the market would explode as it\u2019d be a means to bring more freedom to dogs and humans. What would you do with a pet phone?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As our technology progresses, so does dog tech. Today, we have GPS collars, RFID doggy doors, and more, but what about dog phones? Dr. Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, adjunct professor at the University of Glasgow, asked the same question and experimented to see how effective a dog phone would be. Her lab assistant: Zack, a 10-year-old labrador&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/anthem-dog-training\/will-dog-phones-one-day-be-a-reality\/\"><b>Read More <i class=\"fas fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":1717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36906],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dog-products"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/anthem-dog-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/anthem-dog-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/anthem-dog-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/anthem-dog-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/anthem-dog-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/anthem-dog-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/anthem-dog-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/anthem-dog-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/anthem-dog-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/anthem-dog-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/anthem-dog-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}