A bright spot for many people in an otherwise challenging year has been adding a furry friend to the family. Welcoming a pet into your home comes with an abundance of mental and physical health benefits and has been linked to reducing stress, providing a sense of purpose and promoting a physically active lifestyle: things we all desperately needed in 2020.
But as COVID-19 restrictions begin to lift, many dogs (and their pet parents) will experience a dramatic change in their routines, leading to questions like, who’s going to let the dog out?
As the Director of Product Management at Chamberlain Group, I’ve worked with my product development teams and colleagues to create smart home access solutions that help solve for questions like: “did I leave the garage door open?”, did the children get home from school safely?” and now “who’s going to let the dog out?”.
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By now, many pet owners have probably gotten used to grooming their cats and dogs at home. And even during non-pandemic times, regularly brushing your pet can result in less matted fur and fewer trips to the groomer. Luckily, Amazon shoppers have discovered this game-changer grooming tool and now even their furry friends love it.
With more than 1,500 five-star ratings, The Pet Portal s Self-Cleaning Slicker Brush is loved by customers because of how well it works on cats and dogs of all sizes. There are two different options to choose from: one for small to medium pets that s just under four inches wide, and one for medium to large pets that s about five inches wide. Both versi
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The myQ Pet Portal opens its elevator-style doors when the pet wearing a sensor on its collar approaches
Wait, three thousand bucks for a doggie door? You heard right, but Chamberlain’s myQ Pet Portal is no cut-rate plastic flap. Rather than a standard pet door that you install in an existing door, the myQ Pet Portal arrives pre-installed in an exterior door manufactured by the doormaking artisans at Kolbe Windows and Doors. The Pet Portal itself boasts doors that slide open like an elevator, while a camera, microphone, and speaker sit in a square situated above the opening. You can control the Pet Portal manually using myQ’s mobile app, or dogs can let themselves in and out if you attach a sensor to their collars. The doors will also close automatically to keep unwanted critters from sneaking in behind your pooch.
CES delivers some real winners each year, but it also has a rich history as a breeding ground for weird technologies.
In years past, the show has yielded peculiarities such as cell phone radiation-blocking underwear, a waistline-monitoring smart belt, and a vending machine for fresh loaves of bread. It s hard to forget Charmin s 2020 RollBot, a robot that can bring you a spare roll of toilet paper when you run out (strangely foreshadowing the great TP shortage that came just months later).
Despite being all-digital this year due to the coronavirus, CES 2021 offered no shortage of oddities. On the list of strange new innovations is a poop-analyzing toilet that offers dietary advice, smart perfume you can customize from an app, and a headless robotic pet meant to soothe your angst. And it only gets weirder from there.