Dogphone
If you say it out loud a few times, Dogphone—much like “towel,” “pagoda,” or “Kardashians,”—is a word that sounds more ridiculous the more you repeat it. Unlike those other things though, the idea of a Dogphone also gets more ridiculous the more you think about it. Because it’s literally a phone for dogs.
The doggy device in question looks less like a phone, and more like a soft squeaky ball that’s loaded with a sensor, and hooked up to the owner’s laptop. When the dog nudges the ball in some way or chews it (as dogs are wont to do), it starts up a video call with the owner’s device. The dog can also answer a call from their mom or dad by nudging/chewing/moving the ball in any way. Naturally, the inventor behind said phone—a Scotland-based researcher named Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas—found her own dog making more accidental calls than anything else; maybe this is a sign that Dog was never meant to have Phone in the first place.
