It is extremely handy when I’m too busy (or sniffly) to find unique things on the wonderful Internet and instead nice friends send links to me. Jen & Mark discovered the Flo Control Box from Quantum Picture. This computer controlled cat door was designed to prevent Flo (a cat) from bringing her captured prey inside (where she would then chase them for hours). A camera captures a profile of the creature at the entryway and an image-recognition algorithm decides if it looks like a cat without anything dangling from its mouth. Within a fraction of a second the door is unlocked for a prey-free cat. Nowadays, the device is doing its work for new cats Squirrel & Ellipse and a record of each day’s camera snaps is saved for your viewing pleasure.