Just released in Japan, the 'Bow-lingual' is a Dog->Human translator. You put the microphone on the dog's collar, and when said dog barks, it beams a dog-voiceprint via IR to a handheld remote, which will translate the bark into one of 20 categories of emotion, such as 'happy', 'frustrated', or 'inquisitive.'

Better yet, the collar-microphone can log barks over the course of the day, and you can download them to see your dog's mood while you were gone at work, or when they were with the dogwalker, etc.

It doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to write a handheld-web interface so the dog's mood could be compiled into a daily dogblog.

What's next? Cat-talker? Babybabbleblogs? Translators that work the other way, so you can talk to your pets in their language?

Sometimes the truth is stranger than Simpsons...