They’ve been keeping tabs on dogs around MIT for a few years now, but it looks like the activity-monitoring SNIF Tags are now finally making their public, and commercial, debut. Unlike some other devices that track your dog’s whereabouts with GPS, these make use of an accelerometer and some motion analysis software to determine exactly how active your dog is, all of which gets logged online via the included SNIF base station that connects to your router.

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Futuristic Robot Dog Concept

Time for another futuristic robot dog designed by Charles Kalpakian. The robot lights up every time you pull its tail cord. Quite an interesting concept, but it doesn’t look like it comes even close to competing with Sony Aibos. [Yanko]