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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. Yes! by MyLongNickName · · Score: 5, Informative

    Now when I go to a friend's Twitter, I can know when his toilet has finished filling up after a flush.

    I LOVE THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY!!!!!!111!!!!

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  2. Re:Wow. by SoupGuru · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Only around 15% of all the Twitter users are less than 25 years old.

    20% for people over 55 years and 16% for those under 25. Yeap, you read it right, 20% of Twitter users are over 55 years."

    http://crenk.com/twitter-is-for-old-people/

    Kind of scary, isn't it?

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