You’ve integrated your vitals and fitness tracking on your hip, everything else on your wrist, and can analyze the world in front of you with your headset, but there’s one thing missing—the ability to interact and engage your pet on the same level. You’ve moved into the digital era, and it’s high time that your furry family members do, too. Here are some of the coolest gadgets for your pets.
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Track and classify your pup’s movements with Whistle’s Oreo-sized device that attaches to any dog collar. Activities are broken down into walking, running, playing, swimming and resting. The information is then synced hourly via Bluetooth, Wifi, or the new SIGFOX (an ultra-narrow band network) to your smartphone. The free mobile app even allows everyone who takes care of your fur baby to be added to the account to monitor his health.
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The Voyce health tracking collar monitors your dog’s respiratory and heart rate, calories burned, and pattern of activity and rest. With a membership, users can access data tracking, analysis, trends, and medical information customized to age, breed, and health level.
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FitBit for your pet! The wearable tracks daily progress and even compares human activities with their dog’s. “BarkPoints” are monitored movements that can be tracked in the free app to track trends for the past few months, days, or even hours to explain changes in behavior, notice if your dog might be sick, compare with similar pooches, and make more informed decisions with your vet.
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The most recent device from the brand’s award winning pet trackers, the GPS Plus sends radio signals to show the GPS location of your pet. You can also set up a Home Tagg Zone as a safe area so you receive an alert via push notification, text, or email if your pet leaves the area. A built-in accelerometer tracks changes in your pet’s movements with the activity translated into charts available on the app and online.
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Offering a more clinical approach, the collar provides activity monitoring in addition to following health indicators that are normally checked in a human physical, such as changes in vital signs (first indicators of most diseases), heart rate variability to help assess heart disease, diabetes, stress, pain, etc., in addition to an array of other analytics to provide your vet with a detailed medical history.
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Document Fido’s adventures to see the world from his perspective. The harness offers two mounting locations to witness every move—from digging to running and doing tricks, the Fetch will capture each moment in detail. The device is also water-friendly, washable, and 100 percent adjustable.
Passport Pet Access Smart System Door
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Let your loved one in and out, but keep out unwelcome guests. The Passport is a programmable door that allows entry or exit for specific pets using a Passport Key that attaches to their collars. Settings can even be changed remotely.
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Check in on Sparky with a mobile app at all hours. Petcube’s wide angle lens records and streams hi-def video to your smartphone or computer. You can even move a laser pointer around to play with your pet virtually!
