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January 24, 2008
Give This Pup Some Solar Power
We received news that veterinary products company, Virbac, is offering in France a service to locate lost pups via a GPS-based collar attachment that provides info to the cellphone (using Orange) or the web.
Apparently, 600K dogs a year go missing in France. Most of them make it home again, but 15K don't. To improve that ratio, pet-owners can pay €15 per month to use Virbac's service.
We're looking at the specs on the dog collar unit and thinking it might have been better to create a solar-powered version. If someone is absent-minded enough to lose their dog, they might also forget to recharge the unit. The way it is now, this has to be recharged for four hours a week.
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Posted on January 24, 2008 01:42 PM | Posted to Being European | Permalink
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