But he'd consider complementing his ten-dog force with Fido sensors if the price were right.
What self-respecting art collector would hang a portrait of Fido next to a Picasso?
Nomadics has already devised a waterborne offshoot of Fido called Seapup, a self-propelled minisub.
When waved over their hands and clothes, Fido can tell whether detainees have recently been handling explosives.
In summer the resort hosts two weekly dog and owner happy hours, Fido Fridays and Bachelor Brunch.
"Truth is, Fido doesn't work like a dog's nose does at all, " says Colin Cumming, Nomadics' chief executive.
Fido, made by privately held Nomadics of Stillwater, Oklahoma, is the first device ready to go nose-to-nose with a hound.
Fido is the first sensor that can detect TNT and other explosives with the same success as a trained dog.
Zombies also lend themselves to social satire, which is why Shaun of the Dead, Dead Set and Fido work so well.
Or singing chipmunks modulated to send Fido into paroxysms of holiday howling (with the potential to spawn scores of excruciating YouTube videos)?
They enjoy the added bonus of being spacious, especially by New York standards, and Fido is welcome too (love that Kimpton pet policy).
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When U.S. marines in Iraq round up a group of suspicious characters, lately they've been introducing them to a bomb-sniffing handheld device called Fido.
Unlike other pet-tracking devices, which can look like decommissioned Soviet-era spy gear, Tagg's waterproof transmitter is thin, light and styled to match Fido's and Whisker's high-tech lifestyles.
Not only does the author clearly define the problem, he proposes some unique solutions and ideas to train your dog quicker and keep both you, your carpet and Fido happy.
To this aim, Upadhyay said he and Grosse have been working with the FIDO Allance, an industry group that was formed last summer to address the problems caused by the current system of password authentication.
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While there isn't a truly independent LTE carrier yet, Rogers' lower-cost Fido label has just taken its promised LTE access live to at least offer some competition among the smaller names in the field.
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Fido can pick up the smell of TNTvapor at concentrations of just a few parts per trillion, and it was the first sensor to find buried mines at a level comparable to dog performance, with a false-alarm rate of less than 5%.
It's easy to laugh at the idea of Fido taking an antidepressant and to dismiss owners who medicate their pets as urban nut cases who probably also kit their pooch out in Alexander McQueen sweaters and tote them around in a Birkin bag.
Then he and Fido could have dreamed of the Ritz as they rested their tootsies back home, just as the sight of my ill-gotten Argentinean laundry bag has me fantasizing about dancing the tango at 2 a.m. in the grand ballroom of the Alvear Palace.
Scientists have used chromophores for decades to detect chemicals, but, until Fido, they weren't sensitive enough to detect trace explosives because each molecule of TNT vapor would switch off just a single chromophore, with the result that faint wisps of evil chemicals caused no visible change in luminosity.
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