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Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex
When an UK man was asked to be the best man at a friend's wedding he agreed that he would not pull any pranks before or during the ceremony. Now the groom wishes he had extended the agreement to after the blessed occasion as well. The best man snuck into the newlyweds' house while they were away on their honeymoon and placed a pressure-sensitive device under their mattress. The device now automatically tweets when the couple have sex. The updates include the length of activity and how vigorous the act was on a scale of 1-10.
First!
130KG. 45 seconds.
ROFLCOPTER
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.
They’re on the job! #2 - Action commenced at 15.50GMT. Weight: 151KG.
They’re on the job! #3 - Action commenced at 15.13GMT. Weight: 151KG.
They’re on the job! #4 - Action commenced at 19.14GMT. Weight: 151KG.
and later...
They’re on the job! #5 - Action commenced at 09.33GMT. Weight: 152KG.
Where did those extra 2.2 pounds come from? 4 times in and they are already experimenting with sex toys?! I just don't know what to say as a virgin, unmarried slashdotter.
I guess the only fitting comment is "pics or it didn't happen"
The friend is breaking the cardinal rule of pranks. Everyone must get a good laugh *before* spilling the beans.
So to recap:
1) Spit the seed
2) Tweet the deed
3) Spill the beans
Otherwise, the newlyweds are just going to screw elsewhere.
If you check the bed's twitter, the best man says that the groom does not know yet. I may have missed something, but I don't think so.
Unfortunately (well, maybe fortunately) all parties in this hack are anonymous. Otherwise, the new groom could rig up an automatic bed bouncing machine and become a sexual legend of Web 3.0.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
I will have the hide of anyone foolish enough to try this on me!!!
I, for one, welcome our new pressure-sensitive, tweeting devices.
"Neither the friend nor the couple are known. In fact, who knows if this is even real, and who cares, it's hilarious."
What's next? Fart jokes? Unverified of course!
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...this feed won't be updated much after a few months.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
Apparently he can't go more than 140 seconds.
Hopefully, things will get better when the novelty wears off. And it will wear off.
If the device starts tweeting while the husband is at work.
The best man snuck into the newlyweds' house while they were away on their honeymoon and placed a pressure-sensitive device under their mattress.
So it only measures sex on the bed. How boring is that? That leaves out the walls, floor, couch, kitchen counter, pool table, the whole rest of the house and car sex un-Tweeted.
And, if you're Tiger Woods, the private jet, the yacht and the putting green.
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I wonder how many low-intensity sex sessions are actually false positives caused by tossing and turning.
Well, let's get the obvious out of the way:
Now that I've aired that out, this isn't too unsurprising of a read, considering how a former girlfriend I had told me of people she knew who would AIM while doing in doggystyle, record themselves having sex, reading, etc. etc. etc...
So how does the device work? For instance, how are these weight measurements being made? If you just put a load cell under the middle of the bed, it isn't going to measure the total mass. You'd need to use 4 load cells - one at each corner of the mattress. And the Mattress has to have a frame, like a box spring. Or you could use 1 load cell, but you'd have to build a special framework under the bed for it.
The next part is how do you translate these weight and vibration readings into a "sex detector". Where do you set the threshold, such that if someone just rolls over or even flops on the bed it doesn't set it off? Lots of ordinary acts, from scratching an itch to sitting up might create vibrations in the system that would fool a simple script into detecting "sex".
Plus, some sex acts create a lot more vibration that others. Position also matters quite a bit.
This is an interesting problem. I think it's solvable, to a reasonable level of accuracy. But you'd have to calibrate the system, which would require something that most slashdotters don't have access to....
Wow, I want one, that sounds awesome. I wouldn't have it tweet when I'm having sex, but I'd probably keep some sort of online log that would graph the weight, volume, temperature (though that might be greatly skewed by the friction of the mattress constantly rubbing against the device) and if I can have motion sensors I'd have it log "the motion of the ocean."
Not that the data would serve much purpose other than to say "Hey check out what I made."
This has a very, very high likelihood of being an advertisement for the pads he links to. Such a pity that advertising agencies have destroyed my ability to believe things :-(
Is anyone else getting sick of samzempus purposely marking an idle article as 'science' or 'technology' that is clearly idle just so it gets more views? We already know you mis-tag articles purposely so they get more views (most people filter out idle), but seriously do your job correctly.
Most of us come on this site for relevant technology and science news and do our part by filtering out articles we are not interested in. I for one do not appreciate when this particular moderator purposely bypasses my filter on a near daily basis just to get more views or 'prestige' within the site. If anything you're becoming more infamous as being the moderator that posts useless things. /rant
if time=x and frequency=y
f(x)= 1/x
x: (0, infinity)
Here's a fun experiment to do with one of these devices: Correlate the amount of alcohol consumed with the weight placed on the sensor.
This news is like a week old *yawn*
Have you fscked your local propeller head today?
If the weight all of a sudden doubled or tripled.
Seems like a Wiimote, like the ones we were reading about the other day would work better than a simple pressure sensor.
Finally, a use for Twitter!
For newlyweds it should go to 11.
When she read the article her first words were "Where do we get one of those?" O.o
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140 thrust limit?
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Only a matter of time before someone puts one of these in a motel room that rents by the hour.
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I wonder how you can get a reliable connection out into the world. Local WLAN ? Random open hotspot ? Someone might actually find that an unknown device on the local lan. A cellphone/pager would be a waste.
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there's gonna be a meter on your bed, that will disclose.. what everybody knows!..
never thought it would be LITERAL.
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Table-ized A.I.
I wonder how often the new bride and groom will be inclined to turn the mattress? This will tell us something about their housekeeping skills, too. Will the bedbugs find the Twitterbox before they do?
current frequency .008 Hz, Amplitude 3 inches
Study reveals that amplitude is inversely proportional to frequency
Normally you'd expect someone nerdy enough to create something as complex as this to document their build with pictures and short blurbs about the materials and sensors used. I find it odd that this so-called nerdy creation does not contain any information about the build itself outside of "Hey you know this guy that built a twitter connected fart sensor, well I used some stuff like that". Who knows why he would want a bunch of twitter followers interested in pseudo-voyeurism, but I think this feed is not genuine.
1) Get a sheet of paper, write the times that you had sex. Better make that two sheets.
2) Cross out the times when you had sex someplace other than the bed.
3) Check each time against the page: http://twitter.com/newlywedsontjob
4) If there are no times left, examine tyour bed.
So here's a site I use to find everything that's anything to do with privacy, invasion thereof, and all manner of other well reasoned ideas, go to show this page to female acquaintance; sees this crap (privacy minded.Sd/.)
No thought What kind of invasion is that to a woman?. 5*funny it's not. Thanks.
...when it turns out, they haven't been having sex the past few days
This smells like a hoax to me. When this turns out to be viral advertising for some stupid movie about two people who just got married, the reporter is going to look like an idiot, and it doesn't matter that he said he doesn't know if it's real or not. He still put it in an article with the Washington Post's name on it.
What interests me is that this is a British man and the *Washington Post* has the story first.
Pleasure sensor
Wow, this is really evil
If there's no Twitpic, it didn't happen.
Kriston
I've been married twice, so let me tell you something important. They say that the first year of marriage is the hardest. Don't worry, that's not true. It's the last year that's the hardest.
Good luck!
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Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Oddly enough, the frequency of tweeting on the account is dropping like a rock.
No way. Never.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
Let's just hope it doesn't start tweeting while the husband's at work...