Category Archives: Inventions

In Search Of An ‘Ear Linguist’

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Several years ago, I came up with an idea for an “Earlingo Headband.” You can see my original post via this link: Earlingo – The Animal Assisted Therapy Headband.

Earlingo is a headband with controllable canid (wolf/dog) ears on it. It can be used in human-animal assisted interactions, as well as to signal captive wild canids (wolves, foxes, etc.) in zoos or other such environments. This can aid in bio-behavioral studies.

I was really excited to build this project, but it was outside my scope of expertise. I quickly learned to really make this idea happen, I needed a university bioengineering student. A student who could become not only a designer, but a wild canid ‘ear linguist’ as well.

I decided that I needed to place an ad in a university setting and student newspaper. I chose Cal Berkeley as my first target, as they have superior engineering programs.

I asked my techie friend Larry what he might suggest. As typical he had a great idea; use a QR code, something that I would never have thought of doing.

I wrote up some text and gave him suggestions for a graphic. He used his AI expertise to come up with this ad design, which included the QR code.

Check out the QR code to read the ad. If you are not familiar with using QR codes, one way to access it is to focus your phone’s camera on the QR graphic. Your browser will detect the link. Just click on the displayed link to access the ad. Really cool!

Hopefully, I will find an engineering student who likes the Earlingo project as much as I do!

The ‘STORE’ Is Open For Business

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For the last couple of months, I have been working towards adding a storefront to my blog. Well, today it has gone live!

Here is the link to Mr. G’s Mind store, hosted by Redbubble:

Click on link: https://www.redbubble.com/people/MrGsMind/shop

You can also access this link on the website navigation menu bar, by clicking on Store.

Redbubble enables a designer to host their designs, and place them on 100’s of products: shirts, phone cases, stickers, mouse pads, even clocks for sale. They take the orders, get the product printed, and shipped to the customer. Of course, they take a large percentage of the sale price, but the designer does not have to deal with a ‘physical’ business. For me, that’s a huge plus!

Here is a screen shot of some of the available products. Thus far I have only posted 12 designs, but I plan to grow and improve the site with much more.

If you follow my blog, you may notice that some of the designs have been the subject of a few posts. For example: AlphaWEAR Clothing Line.

I hope that you will take a look, bookmark, and share the link on your social media sites. Perhaps you will even make a purchase! Five percent of my take goes to a local zoo’s educational fund.

So far it’s been a fun project. If you are a designer, photographer, or even a poet, you could use Redbubble to display your creations, and perhaps make some side money too. Go for It!