Pet’s View concept camera lets you see the world through the eyes of your dead pet

Anyone who has had to deal with the loss of a pet knows what a difficult time it can be. One design team thinks they've come up with a way to make it a little bit easier.

Designer Jaehwa Lee has come up with Pet's View, a small camera connected to a flash drive that records what your pet sees. While there are other devices currently on the market that will record a pet's eye view of the world, the emotional sales point is a new angle, as Mashable points out.

"Creating a camera specifically aimed at helping people deal with the death of a pet is a specific but potentially helpful concept for those who are really attached to their animals," Nestor Bailly writes in a PSFK post on Mashable. "Having a small device bearing a dead pet's name filled with their memories could be a consolation."

The device attaches to a pet collar sported by your dog or cat, and does two things: it tracks the pet's temperature and heartbeat, to see when the pet gets excited, and it records everything the pet sees through a small camera. All the information is saved to flash memory, which can then be uploaded to your computer via USB.

By combining the biological data with the images recorded simultaneously, the owner can deduct at what moments the pet was happiest, giving them some insight into the brain of their dearly departed pet.

In the write-up of the concept, Lee suggests that the USB drive could record every moment in a pet's life and let you relive those memories all over again. It's probably good that this is still just a concept, though, as recording the entire life of a dog or cat that lived to 15 or 20 years of age would be ambitious for one little flash drive to hold.