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Bowlingual

Wendy Cooper — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:49:12 +0000

The international infant and children toy manufacturer, Takara Tomy, have released their improved version of Bowlingual. Believe it or not, it’s a device that translate the bow-wows of your dog into human language, so far only in Japanese. One part is strapped around like a dog collar to detect the vibrations of the dog’s larynx and the other, a hand held device, displays and vocalises the translated barks. My sceptical opinions remains only because there’s no chance of knowing the accuracy of this translator. Is that why it doesn’t translate Japanese back into the bow-wows? It would be an undemanding task for it already has the lexicon database. We could carefully annunciate our message into the hand held device, select the correct variants on the screen if there are any and it plays back the barking to the dog. Woof, Bob’s your uncle. And how would this product rate in Korea? Would we want to speak to our meal? And once Meowlingual, Oinklingual, Baalingual and Moolingual is out there, would we all become vegetarians?

The Bowlingual TVC

Yo La Breakout

Wendy Cooper — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:43:17 +0000

I lost an hour of my life because of this!

Colors of Money

Wendy Cooper — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:52:38 +0000

Colors of Money may not be the most innovative or imaginative curated exhibition but the global recession is a prevalent topic. Inspired by a recent issue of Colours, this Colours/Fabrica collaboration is a current exhibition at well-located EXPO_CarréRotondes of the wealthy capital Luxemburg.

Source: Fabrica

SXSW 2010: 12–21 March

Wendy Cooper — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:59:46 +0000

Today I’m excited about SXSW 2010. Largely it is to do with the simple fact that I have remembered this annual event and have marked it in my diary to prevent missing it for the gazillion time. Hooray!

SXSWeek 2010 12–21 March
Interactive 12–16 March
Film 12–20 March
Music 17–21 March