Dan Knudsen is the cofounder of CleverPet, which makes a game console for dogs.
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CleverPet Hub is a $269 video game console for your dog

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo don’t really show up at CES, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas, last week. But CleverPet has stepped into the breach with a video game console — for dogs.

Yep. The CleverPet Hub is designed to get dogs more active. Instead of just getting their treats or meals served to them, the dogs have to do some work. They do so by pawing the lights on the Hub, sort of like the old Simon board game. It’s a little like whack-a-mole for canines.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.