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Digital Animalistics

2009-03-05 19:47:58.949022+00 by petronius 4 comments

Anybody remember the CueCat, that cute kitty that would have us all reading magazines like Wired or Parade at our workstation and merrily scanning barcodes? Now, while this gadget has no scanner, I feel a strange sense of Deja vu....

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#Comment Re: made: 2009-03-05 20:24:04.571814+00 by: Dan Lyke

As one of the commenters says, it needs some USB humping dogs (YouTube link).

#Comment Re: made: 2009-03-05 21:28:50.366118+00 by: andylyke [edit history]

Gad- I had forgotten cue cat. I wonder where ours went??

Humping USB dogs?! - now that's sick! Humping bears on yard art, on the other hand ...

#Comment Re: made: 2009-03-05 22:20:41.977238+00 by: Dan Lyke

That deserves an animated GIF:

#Comment Re: made: 2009-03-05 22:32:08.404404+00 by: meuon

I just wish people would stop anthropomorphising computer gadgets, they hate that.