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If you have been thinking about becoming a furry, this will either be your first step or the finishing touch on your outfit. For just $35(USD), you too can learn to fear rocking chairs and the feet of oblivious humans.
This clip-on animatronic cat tail from ThinkGeek is powered by four AA batteries, and will swish back and forth as it hangs from the back of your pants, telling all of the other furries that you are feeling happy. The next version will likely simulate other cat moods, like your tail getting bristly when you get scared.
So there you have it. Your furry outfit just got upgraded. Hey, stop licking yourself!
Easter is just around the corner, so if you’re into doing more than hiding eggs and eating Peeps for the holiday, here’s something fun to add to your festive decor.
The Bunny Light is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a porcelain white bunny rabbit, but its fluffy white tail lights up. It’s made by our friends over at SuckUK, and will look cute sitting on a table or shelf long after the holiday has passed. This bunny has a cool LED light source in its tail, and is powered by USB. Though you might not want to buy two of them, as they do have a tendency to multiply quickly.
Rabbit fans can hop on over to SuckUK and grab a Bunny Light for £60 (~$91 USD). Keep in mind that it comes with a UK USB/AC adaptor in the box, so you’ll need to provide your own, or plug it into your computer.
Animals can’t talk, but they have other ways to express themselves. For example, when a dog is excited, he wags his tail. When he’s waiting for you to do something (like walk him), he’ll sit patiently and swing his tail back and forth while looking at you. At least, that’s what my Shih Tzu does when he’s asking for a walk.
Humans don’t have tails because we can communicate perfectly without them, and besides, we don’t really need them. You can buy them and wear them, but you can’t control them… Until now, that is.
Shota Ishiwatari invented the Tailly, which is a tail that ‘wags when you get excited.’ It has a sensor that keeps track of your heart rate. The faster your heart beats, the more vigorously the tail will move, and vice versa.
The Tailly was up for funding on Indiegogo, with the campaigning concluding just a few hours earlier. Unfortunately, it didn’t meet its funding goal of $50,000 so everyone out there who wants an interactive tail might have to wait a while longer before they can get one.
In the old days, people can tell what someone is feeling by their facial expressions or by using special mouth sounds like “I’m sad. I don’t have anyone to talk to, which makes it sadder that I’m talking right now.” But apparently people these days are lying cowards who don’t want to express what they really feel. So now we have this.
The device is called the Tailly. It was invented by Shota Ishiwatari, the same man who came up with the brain-controlled cat ears and tails. The Tailly on the other hand looks at the wearer’s heart rate.
It’s a testament to how long I’ve been writing for Technabob that it’s the boring outfits of the people in the video that I find to be really weird and not the fake tails they’re wearing. Pledge at least £60 (~$96 USD) Kickstarter page to reserve your own Tailly. I’ll jump on the bandwagon when they come up with something that lets me run as fast as a cheetah.
We can thank the Japanese for another wacky gadget that has just been unveiled. The device is called the Shippo, and is a concept right now. It’s a white, fuzzy cat tail that reacts based on the wearer’s mood.
It looks like the perfect complement to Neurowear’s mind controlled robotic cat ears we talked about a while back. The idea is that the wearer would have some sort of sensor on their head that would detect their mood and wag the tail in relation to how they felt. When excited, the tail would wag rapidly.
When relaxed, the tail would wag slowly, and when scared apparently the tail wouldn’t wag at all. The tail works in conjunction with a smartphone app that allows the user to search out places where other users of the Shippo where relaxed. You can even list where wearers found someone else they like wearing the tail, in case they want to meet up. Check out the video above for a glimpse at all the cat tail weirdness.
You may not instantly recognize the name "Yukai Engineering," but you may have already come across its earlier products like the Necomimi brainwave cat ears or the Bocco "family robot" at some point. At CEATEC, the Japanese company unveiled its lates...
