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IBM Patents Tweeting Remote Control

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the just-put-a-clock-in-something dept.

Fluffeh writes "IBM has applied for a patent on a network-enabled smart remote control that sends out a message to Twitter, Facebook or a blog when you start watching a TV show." Hopefully this launches an exciting patent landgrab of devices that are socially enabled. Your car can tweet when you leave your garage. Your dishwasher can tweet when the load is done. Your skillet can tweet when your eggs are burnt. And they say innovation is dead.

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  1. Wow. by moogied · · Score: 4, Funny

    There goes using a remote control to watch porn. The naked walk to my TV to change the channel is gonna get annoying real fast :(

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    1. Re:Wow. by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Funny

      Not so fast...
      You may avoid the twitter enabled remote but your wife also installed a motion-detector webcam that will post to twitter with a link to youtube.

    2. Re:Wow. by moogied · · Score: 4, Funny

      Woah woah woah.. wife? INSTALLING?

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    3. Re:Wow. by russotto · · Score: 3, Funny

      This whole Twitter phenomenon seems to reinforce the narcissistic personality common in today's 25 or younger crowd. They think 'Everyone will want to know I watched Top Model tonight, and 90210 and Gossip Girl last night.'

      I patent using twitter to obtain viewer information for TV ratings. (Claim 2 is "The system of claim 1 where the viewer demographic is persons 25 or younger")

    4. Re:Wow. by Duradin · · Score: 2, Funny

      I can neither confirm nor deny that you are the only one in the US that doesn't want everyone to know their every move of everyday life.

    5. Re:Wow. by locallyunscene · · Score: 2, Funny

      of course, she is pregnant

      ...

    6. Re:Wow. by kpainter · · Score: 4, Funny

      Mine's at home learning Perl right now.

      Women and Perl are a lot alike. You can't figure out how women work either.

    7. Re:Wow. by roggg · · Score: 2, Funny

      I call it 'getting together with them for drinks....'

      Interesting. Is that patented?

    8. Re:Wow. by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 2, Funny

      I've heard that being pregnant can cause a woman to crave for strange food and to have nausea, but *Perl*? Wow, I hope there is a medication for that.

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    9. Re:Wow. by Capt.DrumkenBum · · Score: 2, Funny

      My Safeway card thinks I am a 97 year old Transsexual hooker. At lease that is to character I created when I was filling out the demographic portion of the application.

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    10. Re:Wow. by Darby · · Score: 3, Funny

      Holy cow I just bought a pack of Trojans. What will mom think?

      "Hoorah, I thought he'd live alone in my basement forever"?

  2. Yeah... Well... by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 3, Funny

    My Mouse Tweets anytime I click on anything, if its inside the web browser it tweets the URL I'm at, if its inside a game it tweets my headshots, and if I'm working it tweets how much I'm NOT on /.

  3. My door can tweet when I forget to lock it! by jeffb+(2.718) · · Score: 3, Funny

    My sidearm can tweet when it's unloaded! The possibilities are endless!

    1. Re:My door can tweet when I forget to lock it! by camperdave · · Score: 2, Funny

      "His door is unlocked AND his sidearm is unloaded, lets get him now!"
      <BLAM!>
      "AAAHH! The tweet was a lie!"

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  4. I for one... by gestalt_n_pepper · · Score: 2, Funny

    welcome our new tweeting masters (i.e. twits)

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  5. Twitter aware tweetting application by dam.capsule.org · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am tweetting
    I am tweetting
    I am tweetting
    I am tweetting
    I am tweetting
    I am tweetting
    I am tweetting
    ^C^C^C

    Mmmm maybe that is not such a good idea, forget it

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  6. If my toilet seat could tweet... by dpbsmith · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think it would be sweet if my toilet seat could tweet, and announce each major feat every time that I excrete. If the flowing bowl's replete I don't want to be discrete; I would tweet to the elite "Look at how I can compete!"

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  7. Got a better one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hey tweet tweet...

    "Dumped a log... Pretty big, clogged the toilet!"

    Oh wait, tweet recognizes this and sends out message to plumber...

    "big log dump alert, backed up... Address X, Y, Z" .... I want to see that patent!

  8. Prior Art by aethelwyrd · · Score: 3, Funny

    This totally infringes on my patent for doing something stupid with twitter.

  9. Ok, but you have to tweet about that by mollog · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ok to get together with your friends...as long as you tweet about it.

    Seriously, this whole auto-tweeting thing has a lot of useful applications; a real-time life logger. Now we need to make triggers based on the tweets that start other activities. Tweet my dog when I get into my car at the end of the work day. Actually, that dog knows when I'm coming home, so that's a waste. Some sort of weird, semi-obsessive dog radar.

    How about tweeting when my mother-in-law pulls into my street? I can turn out the lights.

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    1. Re:Ok, but you have to tweet about that by nigelo · · Score: 2, Funny

      How about tweeting when my mother-in-law pulls into my street?

      You'll know it's her when the mice start throwing themselves on the traps... (Les Dawson)

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  10. Re:Guys, I don't get it by SydShamino · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course if you are Sockington the cat you do in fact have 1.1 million people interested in the things your owner pretends you say.

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  11. Re:this should be easy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Read the patent before jumping to conclusions.

    I can't, the jump to conclusions mat has been patented too!

  12. What about lost remotes by ZERO1ZERO · · Score: 3, Funny

    I would want it tweeting the location of my tv remote. I am always losing them.