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Animate Your Pet

Interactive Talking Pets Viral

— July 30, 2008 — Pop Culture
TalkingPets.org will animate your pet for you! We've seen plenty of text-to-speech viral campaigns that place your photo within animated ads, but this is the first one Trend Hunter has featured for animals.

TalkingPets.org lets you upload a photo of your dog or cat and then type in your own customized message. Instantly, your pet's mouth becomes animated and delivers the message in sync with the words.

While you can email these fun viral greetings to your friends, unfortunately you can't embed them on your blog.

By the way, it works well on humans too: I tried!

As stated in the beginning, this is a viral ad. It's meant to generate awareness for The Blue Cross animal charity in the UK.
Trend Themes
1. Interactive Talking Pets - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop advanced technology that allows for more realistic and interactive talking pets, expanding the market for personalized pet animations.
2. Text-to-speech Viral Campaigns - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Create text-to-speech campaigns that go beyond photos and include animated ads for various purposes, such as marketing, entertainment, or education.
3. Customized Animated Greetings - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Build platforms that enable users to create and share personalized animated greetings with customized messages, targeting different occasions and demographics.
Industry Implications
1. Animation and Visual Effects - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop cutting-edge animation and visual effects techniques to enhance the realism and interactivity of animated pet characters, opening doors for new applications in industries like film, gaming, and advertising.
2. Pet Tech - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Combine innovative pet tracking and communication technologies with animation capabilities to create a new market of interactive pet products and services, catering to pet owners' desire for playful and engaging experiences.
3. Digital Greetings and E-cards - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Reinvent the digital greetings and e-cards industry by incorporating advanced animation technologies, allowing users to send customized animated greetings for various occasions with ease and personalization.
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