I don’t know. The Peppot Camera [Babel] is really clever an’ all, being a motion sensing camera unit which emails photos of your pet on demand to your mobile handset. A sort of house-sitting comfort blanket. But what exactly does it say about the dear Japanese? That they love their pets too much, or not enough? More here [Babel].

‘Catching the movement of the pet with the sensor, when it photographs automatically, becoming matter of concern it is possible being remote, manual operation to photograph the pet. Alone, it is the simple camera which can be house-sitting…’