➠ December 5, 2008
Spying on Bacon
Yesterday, I received a SnifTag for Bacon, thanks to Josh Nichols. I've been intrigued by Snif Labs since I first heard about them a year or two ago, even participating in a focus group last summer.
Bacon wears the tag on his collar, and it wirelessly connects to a base station that uploads the data in realtime to the SnifTag website. Joy and I had fun with him last night calling his name, and watching the avatar on the website spring into action! This also means that we can finally find out what he gets up to when we're not around the house to see. (Spoiler: So far, it seems to be "sleep constantly")
The community is pretty small at the moment, but if the popularity takes off, the social networking side of things could get interesting -- tracking your dog's activity levels vs. others in the same breed or age range could prove useful.
Snif Labs have just dropped the price of the tag+base station to $150, and if you use the code "SNIFPARK", you can get another $50 off.
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