Laid Off From Job, Man Builds Tweeting Toilet

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @04:30PM from the because-I-can dept.

dcblogs writes With parts from an electric motor, a few household items, an open-source hardware board running Linux, and some coding, Thomas Ruecker, built a connected toilet that Tweets with each flush. The first reaction to the Twitter feed at @iotoilets may be a chuckle. But the idea behind this and what it illustrates is serious. It tracks water usage, offers a warning about the future of privacy in the Internet of Things, and may say something about the modern job hunt. Ruecker built his device on a recent long weekend after he was laid off as an open source evangelist at a technology firm undergoing "rightsizing," as he put it.

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obligatory by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-10 16:30 · Score: 3, Funny

okay poop is coming out
1. Re:obligatory by mjwx · 2014-09-10 19:56 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  We can create a new social network called Shitter, instead of tweets we can have flushes.
  
  Oh look, I'm getting a new flush about Chocolate Starfish.
  
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  Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
2. Re:obligatory by denzacar · 2014-09-10 21:39 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  And the difference would be...?
  
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  Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
3. Re:obligatory by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-10 22:58 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Is recent activity contained in a log?