"Finally, a helping hand for bored lonely chickens"

John Robson, The Ottawa Citizen [subscription only]

..... Not even your luggage, thanks to a Rhode Island inventor's "Fido Luggage" combining voice-recognition technology with remote control so it heels on command. Ah, the faithful suitcase, bounding down the ramp and into your lap carrying your slippers. Curiously, the Globe and Mail's Social Studies says Fido Luggage has received hostile feedback online, including "Consider what would happen if everyone had one of these." I think that would be great. While waiting for your flight you could stage mass impromptu luggage demolition derbies right there in the departure lounge.

Another critical comment was, "Man, when the machines rise up to destroy us, it's going to be pretty embarrassing to get killed by your luggage." Would you prefer some unusually clever chicken managing to turn "Poultry.Internet" on you and pecking you to death remotely in your hotel room in revenge for you never being home?

Another martyr to the march of science. Though the resulting video would be a huge hit in the vlogosphere. Especially with bored lonely chickens.

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