Slideshow: Augmenting the Animal Kingdom

Nuisance odour respirator: One of the reasons wolves first found favor with the hunter-gatherer tribes was their sense of smell: They led the tribesmen to potential food. In modern dogs the sense of smell is the only natural trait remaining undiminished from those of their wolf ancestors. It is estimated that the dogs sense of smell is more than 40 times more powerful than that of the human but in the domestic environment this must surely lead to much frustration. Imagine your olfactory glands being bombarded with the smell of every ingredient of every Sunday roast within a 3-mile radius and all you�ll be getting for dinner is a tin of dog food.

Aerial attack protection jacket: Defense for field rodents against aerial predators (motorized telescopic defense spikes, minute leadscrew drive, vertical motion sensor).

Pigeon LED leg display: The pigeon once enjoyed the lofty status of master of espionage, even winning bravery medals during wars. Today, however, they have been demoted to flying vermin, persecuted and despised. The LED leg light turns the pigeon into an aerial entertainer. People would flock to the city to see the night sky light up with an array of fantastic colors and the pigeon would win back respect.

LED tail-light: Ultrabright LED with programmable pic chip.

Acorn-Positioning System: Through Pavlovian techniques the squirrel is trained to press the button on the APS device on burying a nut. The global position is then stored in the device. The red light is activated whenever the nut position is passed over leading the squirrel to his hoard. Using morphic resonance, the skills learned will spread throughout the squirrels population ensuring that they never go hungry.

Aquatic stealth jacket: A top secret resin jacket. Highly absorbant acoustically, it reflects only a minute amount of the energy transmitted by sonar detectors.