Gadgetory

hey guys it's ashli Carmen here with the verge and today we're checking out a new gadget called fur bow which is basically like a Dropcam for dogs except it's way cooler because you get to toss your dog's treats even when you're not home so I don't have dogs but luckily our creative director James Bear ham was so nice to let us borrow Georgie and Monty for the day even though they're really great stunt dogs it took a while to get them used to the fur bow we had to hold the treat behind it to kind of train them that the fur bow was their friend and not just a scary robot sitting in the corner but once they got used to it they literally couldn't take their eyes off it so while fur bow is obviously supposed to be used when you're at work or you know away from the house and your dogs are at home alone it's kind of just fun to sit here and chew treats with them and see what happens although the tree tossing is definitely the coolest thing about the fur boat it also has a couple other features one thing it does is it sends you bark alerts so if you're out and all of a sudden you get a pop of notification saying your dogs are barking you can pull up the app see what's going on if your neighbors get angry that your dog is barking you can actually talk to them through the app to make sure that they calm down Monty Georgie oh hey guys so now they're paying attention and I'm going to shoot them a treat and they're both right there to get it so as you can see the furball has a really nice design it doesn't look like any other home security system and I wouldn't be embarrassed but this in my apartment now you probably do want to put it up a little bit high so the dogs don't get to it but it has a wide-angle lens so even if it's up there you're getting a full view of the room no matter where it is we did run into a few issues with setting up the fur bow it only works with 2.4 gigahertz Wi-Fi which it was a problem in our office but in an apartment it was totally fine the app itself is a little bit glitchy but honestly you kind of don't care because it's so addicting that you're willing to exit and reload it just to make it work the fur goes on IndieGoGo right now for a $99 pre-order and honestly for a hundred bucks it's a pretty good deal looks good it works for the most part and when I'm bored I can literally just look at dogs and play with them I don't know what could be better you ready