{"374751":{"#nid":"374751","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Sit. Stay. Call 911: FIDO Vest Gives Service Dogs An Upgrade","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGoogle\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2015\/01\/15\/377507746\/public-sales-of-google-glass-to-end-later-this-month\u0022\u003Eannounced this week\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;they\u0027re ending individual sales of the much celebrated, and maligned, Google Glass. And\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/alltechconsidered\/2015\/01\/10\/376166180\/forget-wearable-tech-people-really-want-better-batteries\u0022\u003Eas we reported last week\u003C\/a\u003E, a recent\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EFortune\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Estudy found relatively low interest in wearable gadgets.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut wearable tech is not dead. In fact, there\u0027s a new vest that has GPS, can call 911 and can talk back like Siri. But it\u0027s not for people \u2014 it\u0027s for service dogs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENew Scientist\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22429970.500-lassie-text-home-pooches-get-technological.html\u0022\u003Ereported in its December issue\u003C\/a\u003E, it\u0027s the brainchild of a group called the FIDO project, headed up by Dr. Melody Jackson, director of the Center for BioInterface Research at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28008","created_gmt":"2015-02-09 16:07:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:23:54","author":"Bobby Macedonia","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"2022 Diversity Champion awards","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/01\/17\/376198998\/sit-stay-call-911-fido-vest-gives-service-dogs-an-upgrade","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}