Cat-cam!

Here at Sagehen we are dreaming of [& working hard toward] the day that we can track critters through the basin in real time.

This will yield huge breakthroughs in our understanding of how animals use the landscape, since we can only get very periodic fixes on animal position using currently available technologies like camera traps, GPS collars & radio-tracking.

Here's a guy who is working on the same thing using his cat! He has developed a commercial cat-cam that snaps periodic images from the cat's P.O.V., & he is exploring real-time video transmission. Generously, he puts lots of relevant information on his website, including schematic diagrams & part lists. He also offers a GPS tracking system.

You can go along on his cat's travels, or subscribe to an RSS feed for news updates.

Users of the CatCam send in their own cat photo journeys. It's sort of an interesting meditation on the perceptual choices of human photographer-artists to see pictures of what cats think is important.