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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 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.

  3. Re:Wow. by cayenne8 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Am I the only one left in the US that doesn't want everyone to know my every move of every day life??

    Frankly, I prefer being anonymous for most of the time, until "I" choose to make myself known to my friends. I call it 'getting together with them for drinks....'

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  4. Re:Wow. by eln · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not necessarily that I do or don't want anyone to know what I'm doing, it's that I have this overwhelming feeling that nobody gives a shit. I've tried twitter, and I will "tweet" maybe once or twice a month, but even at that pace I pretty much assume that no one cares about what I decide to tweet about and I'm essentially just wasting time shouting into the ether. So, I mostly stick to the occasional humorous (to me, anyway) comment, and don't bother with the day to day details of my life.

    It seems to me that people who regularly tweet about every little thing have some sort of deep-seated need for constant validation from the outside world. They post personal details in order to evoke some kind of response just to show that someone, somewhere is paying attention to them. I find that sort of mentality kind of sad, but apparently it's a lot more common than I would have thought.

  5. 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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