{"id":654855,"date":"2013-04-25T15:37:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T19:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blandinonbroadband.org\/?p=8531"},"modified":"2013-04-25T15:37:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T19:37:24","slug":"petchatz-minnesota-built-webconferencing-for-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/654855","title":{"rendered":"PetChatz \u2013 Minnesota-built webconferencing for pets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0 love to hear about innovation online. I love when it comes out of Minnesota. Not being a pet owner, I think PetChatz is very funny \u2013 but again I love when innovation and economic development happen in Minnesota because of broadband. We should all be thinking of our next innovation!<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a bit about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petchatz.com\/\">PetChatz<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/ci_23099152\/petchatz-is-webcam-treat-and-odor-dispenser-pets\">St Paul Pioneer Press<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now a Minnesota company has come up with the ultimate petcam &#8212; one that dispenses treats and exudes soothing aromas while letting pets and their masters see and hear each other.<\/p>\n<p>Called PetChatz, it can be controlled from afar using a phone app or desktop browser. With the tap of a touchscreen or a keyboard, the owner can release a treat from within the device for Fido to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>The product is not yet available, but maker Anser Innovation of Minneapolis is aiming to ramp up production soon with the goal of offering the petcam in Minnesota in the fall and around the country in early 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Anser CEO Lisa Lavin calls the product &#8220;a greet-and-treat videophone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/8531\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/8531\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blandinonbroadband.org&#038;blog=785113&#038;%23038;post=8531&#038;%23038;subd=blandinonbroadband&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0 love to hear about innovation online. I love when it comes out of Minnesota. Not being a pet owner, I think PetChatz is very funny \u2013 but again I love when innovation and economic development happen in Minnesota because of broadband. We should all be thinking of our next innovation! Here\u2019s a bit about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}