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"Christmas just came early for Doctor Doolittle, and anyone else who would like to talk with the animals. A curious translation prototype for dogs called No More Woof has the $10,000 funding it was seeking on Indiegogo, and $5,000 more besides, with two months to go. \nIf the headset looks familiar, that's because it is. Lightweight electroencephalography (EEG) headsets that measure brain activity, and translates the mental states they read there, have been around for years. A startup called Emotiv produced a $300 version designed for gaming back in 2009; a more advanced headband called Muse is about to go on sale. \nAnd if the concept of applying a device to a dog that tells you what it's thinking sounds familiar, it's probably because you saw it in Pixar's Up. Look, squirrel! \nSee also: All-in-One Leash Makes Dog-Walking a Treat\nNo More Woof appears to be in its very early stages; the Indiegogo video from a Swedish lab called the Nordic Society for Invention and Discovery is full of unintentionally hilarious moments. But the company claims it has already been able to translate certain canine mental states from their electric imprints, such as suspicion of a stranger.\n\"Some of the most easily detected neural patterns are: 'I'm tired', 'I'm curious who that is' and 'I'm excited,'\" NSID writes on its Indiegogo page. \"To be completely honest, the first version will be quite rudimentary. But hey, the first computer was pretty crappy too.\"\nAll translatable dog thoughts will appear in audio form via the gramophone-like plastic trumpet attached to the headset. Sadly, NSID doesn't even give us an example of what the speech will sound like, so we don't know if it resembles Doug the dog from Up. \nBut the lab's founders do spend an inordinate amount of time showing us that their dogs are happy to be wearing the headset in the first place. \"No animals have ever or will ever be harmed in our experiments,\" NSID says. \"No More Woof is a 110% animal-friendly technology.\"\nImage: Nordic Society for Invention and Discovery, Indiegogo\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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