Laid Off From Job, Man Builds Tweeting Toilet

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.

Comments

Job security and your title

[FireballX301]

I think if the words 'Evangelist', 'Maven', or 'Prophet' are anywhere in your job title, you probably don't actually have a job, you just have people giving you money at regular intervals.

So what's the differnece....

[Anonymous Coward]

Between this and the rest of Twitter? It's all about shit