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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 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.

    5. 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!

  4. 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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  5. Prior Art by aethelwyrd · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  6. 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.