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This reminds me of Steve Martin discussing the horrors of cat juggling in The Jerk. Apparently someone found cats walking on keyboards a big enough problem to create a program that could detect “Cat-like typing”. When the program detects a cat walking across the keyboard it locks the keyboard functions and makes an annoying noise over the computer speakers to scare the cat away. There’s even a helpful Q&A on the site, addressing questions like “What if my cat is deaf?” with part of the answer being “PawSense detects the paws of even deaf cats.” That’s brilliant.
they need to make something for baby-like typing too… haha.
posted by susan on 12-7-2006 at 12:25 pm
That’s a cute idea. Now if only they had one for chatspeak…
posted by Heather on 12-7-2006 at 4:39 pm