[lbo-talk] Japanese Toymaker Develops Cat Translator

[Dwayne Monroe]

[Whoever said that capitalism was killing science
obviously was unaware of the cutting edge work being
done in trans-mammal language translation.  I don't
even have a cat and I want one of these.]

Japanese Toymaker Goes Meowlingual

(AP) - After selling 300,000 pet-lovers on the
Bowlingual gadget that supposedly translates a dog's
bark into human language, a toymaker hopes to parlay
that success into a new hit product: Meowlingual. The
cat-shaped machine set to go on sale in Japan in
November translates meows and purrs into human phrases
such as "I can't stand it," although exact wording
hasn't been decided yet, Tokyo-based Takara Co. said
Wednesday

[...]

full at (you've got to see the picture of the pissed
cat being urged on to "speak")

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030716/ap_on_re_as/japan_meowlingual_1

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