The Sound of a Labrador's Paw on a Button While Grandma Yells at Alexa

My grandmother spent twenty minutes last Thanksgiving trying to convince her smart speaker she wanted to listen to Andy Williams, not "Andy will yums," whatever those are. Meanwhile, a Labrador named Tito in Milton Keynes was nosing a wireless button to turn on his owner's living room lamp like he'd been doing it since the Carter administration.I'm not making this up. The Open University's Animal-Computer Interaction Laboratory — yes, a real place where real scientists with real PhDs spend their days asking real dogs what they want — recently launched something called the Dogosophy Button. It's a wireless switch designed for canine paws and noses, built after years of research into what dogs would do with technology if we stopped designing everything for thumbs.The answer, apparently, is: a lot. They'll turn lights on. They'll start appliances. Service dogs will help disabled handlers without waiting for a human to translate the dog's needs into a format the house understands.…