A device that translates dogs’ thoughts into words

From a small Scandinavian research laboratory, the team at the Nordic Society for Invention and Disconvery is developing a device that translates dog thoughts into words. As explained by its creators on the website of the product, to carry out this project they have used the latest technology in microinformatics and electroencephalography, systems that allow analyzing the thought patterns of animals.

It is a kind of helmets that transport thoughts like a swarm of electrical signals through encephalogram sensors capable of deciphering this activity. Then a computer interface converts them into words, which ‘come out’ through a speaker attached to the device. Among these patterns, the most common ones found are: “I’m tired,” “I’m excited,” and “I’m hungry.”

In times when brain activity is very intense when meeting someone, experts translate it in the program as “who are you?” In this sense, experts have explained that dogs “think” in a different way than humans, since the signals of the brain of these animals indicate emotion, that is, the activity shows more a “mental state” than a “thought”.

At the moment the device is in English, Mandarin, French and Spanish, as indicated on their page, where they add that they are working in different voices, so that each owner chooses the one that best suits his dog. This project has been funded by the inventors themselves who, encourage their potential buyers to acquire their product, “which might not be perfect”, to “show their support for research” that may come in the future and that, in their opinion, “will break the language barriers between animals and human beings”.

Sources: www.abc.es, www.nomorewoof.com