Pledges have now topped $10,000 - though it's $40,000 shy of the goal. Meanwhile, the inventor is getting some TV time, and has answered several questions about his project:
At one point, I did make a prototype Tailly that communicates and moves in conjunction with a necomimi, but that necomimi was a unit that I personally modified.
Wagging is fine if you’re a dog-person, but with Necomimi cat ears, won’t it look like you’re angry?
Yes, I believe a cat wags its tail when it’s on alert or angry. Dogs wag their tails when they’re happy or react to something positive, so I designed Tailly in the image of a dog’s tail.
Can this also be used as a lie detector? There is correlation between a person lying and higher heart rate.
ECG measurements at waist-level are not as accurate as those at chest-level, so Tailly is not accurate enough to serve as a genuine lie-detector device. That being said, it might be fun to use Tailly in place of a lie-detector device as a game at a party. The fact that it is not too accurate may actually be a good thing in that situation.
(I should be able to test that last one out in the Werewolf games at Furry Fiesta . . .)
Pledges have now topped $10,000 - though it's $40,000 shy of the goal. Meanwhile, the inventor is getting some TV time, and has answered several questions about his project:
(I should be able to test that last one out in the Werewolf games at Furry Fiesta . . .)