Bright sometimes. Shocking others.

You can’t in a roller skate in a buffalo herd.

You can’t use sarcasm around people any more.

Avoid trouble with inert smiles and nods.

But seriously, do you think whales, turtles, raptors, and babies don’t mind?

Ever shuffle uncomfortably seeing wildlife GPS collared or tagged?

Bound to mess with their flight dynamics or cause a vague lopsided feeling when tearing through the underbrush. Hang up potential.

If Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer was the laughing-stock among his peers about his nose, what about one with the weird alien lump?

Animals can have self-esteem issues, right?

Researchers say animals aren’t bothered by the monitors, but how do they know? (Ever had a pebble in your shoe and not be able to get rid of it?)

Animals aren’t talking, but a new invention may offer insight shortly. 

Designed for a tiny creature who can’t object – one pretty mush speechless for several years (then you cannot shut them up). In a few years data by those who can finally speak up will tell if monitors are darn annoying to those who get them stuck on.

Not this kind of owlet.(USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)

The Owlet has arrived!

The Owlet is a smart sockie that monitors a sleeping infant’s heart rate and oxygen levels. If the child stops breathing, an alert is sent to your smart phone.

Honestly this is an important tool for premature infants or those at risk for SIDS.

But after talking recently with some soon mothers-to-be who are frantically worried about every little thing and totally panicked seeing dangers everywhere, I wonder if the giggling joy of a baby freely kicking those piggies in the air will become a thing of the past like feeling the wind in your hair while riding bikes or horses.

Let’s hope Owlet marketing is done with some restraint.

Babies have enough to cry about.

As if monitor tags aren’t bothersome enough, there’s a new way to be even more annoying to ocean inhabitants like sharks. Long distance even.

Saildrones: unmanned, wind and solar-powered ocean vessels that can to patrol the oceans to track movements, guard protected areas, gather research data, possibly carry cargo, and there’s the quietly muttered military uses.

There goes the neighborhood.

“Sea Drones Venture into Uncharted Waters” (Bloomberg article)

If you’re land locked, you can still get into the technology circle.

Ever get really bored and hunt up that YouTube video of cat on the rumba? (That one should be captioned “Perception is everything”. It is RC Cat approved. Sufficient warning.)

Park yourself and get energized. No more worries about getting tripped up in the garage!

“Wireless charging for the Leaf, Volt, and ELR? It’s here …and it’s ain’t cheap” (Autoweek)

Leaf charging wirelessly. No, that is not green Leaf poop. (autoweek.com/image by PLUGLESS)

Think wireless cell phone charger on steroids.

Once the car is carefully parked exactly over a pad on the floor, an induction coil on the underside of the car picks up the electric magnetic field and starts the charging process for the car battery.

Sounds very Jetson’s cool…but that electric magnetic field?

People used to worry about getting too close to those EMF things.

But car manufacturers wouldn’t create stuff that might be dangerous, would they?

Just to be sure, send the cat in on a rumba, coax it to hop on the charging pad by using a fishing pole dangling a mousie, then see if the cat starts glowing or get scary zombie-ish.

Advancing technology can create some unpredictable results.

Don’t let the cat get your tongue.

Phil, the Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge

Shockingly, test idea is not RC Cat approved.(cheezburger.com/icanhazcheesburger.com)

 

 

 

 

 

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