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Welcome to the cat future, all doors will scan your cat’s microchip (RFID) and if it’s your cat it can come inside…

Keeps out unwanted cats by using your cat’s existing microchip number without the need for a collar. Automatically detects light levels and can keep your cat in at night. Designed by a vet.

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RFID for Makers. Build this kit to read radio frequency ID tags. Subscribers–read this article now in your digital edition!

BY Phillip Torrone

Editor at large - Make magazine. Creative director - Adafruit Industries, contributing editor - Popular Science. Previously: Founded - Hack-a-Day, how-to editor - Engadget, Director of product development - Fallon Worldwide, Technology Director - Braincraft.

3 Responses to Spimecat – The microchip Catflap

  1. Anonymous on said:

    …its already been patented by Matsushita, about 5 years ago (when the idea occurred to me and I trawled through the patents!)

  2. Jetlag on said:

    I’d hold off chipping the cat until they figure out the whole causing cancer thing. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/08/AR2007090800997_pf.html

  3. This looks like the same thing mounted on a pet carrier:

    http://www.nekofeeder.com/

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