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Now Your Dog Can Bark Out Some E-mail.(Bowlingual: wireless device decipher's dog's sound and sends signal for help)(Brief Article)
You are in a meeting in Osaka, hundreds of miles from your home in Tokyo. Suddenly an e-mail message on your mobile phone signals trouble: a burglar has broken in. You call the Tokyo police, and they arrive just in time to catch the intruder. But who, they ask, tipped you off? It was Taro, your best friend, who was minding the house while you were gone.
This explanation would be unremarkable except that Taro happens to be a dachshund. When the burglar broke in, Taro did what any watchdog would do: he barked. What happened next is the brainchild of Matsumi Suzuki, president of Japan Acoustic Lab in Tokyo. He invented a wireless gadget that hangs around the dog's ...
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