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

Combo

Wendy Cooper — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:22:01 +0000

Combo by Blu and David Ellis

If you like this, also check out Blu’s site, Blu Blu.

The sounds of a website

Wendy Cooper — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 08:59:59 +0000

There is a web-page containing an applet called World’s Largest Band. It converts HTML to MIDI and this is what it sound like.

Source: MAKE

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Bowlingual

Combo

The sounds of a website