Critter cams

Posted by Sven

May 17, 2008

The great breakthrough and advance of technology has created really original innovations. Among the latest inventions of technology we may take into account the case of critter cameras. These tiny cams have been created for small pets, in order to notice their behavior and their daily routine.

People have started paying a great importance to their pets and not only that but the actual daily activities of a pet are thought to tell a lot about the pets’ feelings and disposition. For this reason, scientists have created these tiny video cams that are to be installed by mounting them to the animals’ heads or necks.

Actually, critter cams were invented a long time ago but they could only be installed on large animals, like whales or other mammals of great dimensions.

This new technological invention has had a great success in the US after the time it was launched on the market as Americans pay a great importance to the state of their pets.
The video mini cam was created using the basic materials for enabling it to record for hours on end, the only original feature being the reduced dimensions that it has. The advantage of critter cams is that they can be easily mounted on the animals’ necks and the video is also very easy to download onto computers.

Even though many people have been pleased by the idea, the ones that have paid the most interest are the vets, who consider that this is likely to be a very efficient method of observing the pets’ behavior before prescribing them a certain treatment.

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