Dog Star https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVf6RF9v_Dw As Bob Dylan once instructed us, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” True that. So do you need an electronic gizmo to know which way a tail wags? Maybe. A new crowdfunding campaign over at Indiegogo promises to deliver the world’s first tail-wagging monitor that actually translates doggie emotions. Dogs Strut Their Stuff At Westminster 2015: Photos It’s called the DogStar TailTalk and it proceeds from the premise that, with a little technological intervention, we humans can read a dog’s specific emotions by the way it wags its tail. The device includes a lightweight sensor that wraps around your poochie’s tail and monitors movement with an internal accelerometer and gyroscope. That information is then beamed wirelessly to a phone app, which translates the movements into a kind of emotional readout. According to the Indiegogo page, certain types of tail movement are specific emotional indica

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