IBM Patents Tweeting Remote Control 282
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.
Wow. (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah... Well... (Score:4, Funny)
My Mouse Tweets anytime I click on anything, if its inside the web browser it tweets the URL I'm at, if its inside a game it tweets my headshots, and if I'm working it tweets how much I'm NOT on /.
My door can tweet when I forget to lock it! (Score:4, Funny)
My sidearm can tweet when it's unloaded! The possibilities are endless!
Re:Wow. (Score:5, Funny)
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.
I for one... (Score:3, Funny)
welcome our new tweeting masters (i.e. twits)
Twitter aware tweetting application (Score:2, Funny)
I am tweetting
I am tweetting
I am tweetting
I am tweetting
I am tweetting
I am tweetting
^C^C^C
Mmmm maybe that is not such a good idea, forget it
Re:Wow. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wow. (Score:4, Funny)
I patent using twitter to obtain viewer information for TV ratings. (Claim 2 is "The system of claim 1 where the viewer demographic is persons 25 or younger")
If my toilet seat could tweet... (Score:4, Funny)
I think it would be sweet if my toilet seat could tweet, and announce each major feat every time that I excrete. If the flowing bowl's replete I don't want to be discrete; I would tweet to the elite "Look at how I can compete!"
Got a better one... (Score:1, Funny)
Hey tweet tweet...
"Dumped a log... Pretty big, clogged the toilet!"
Oh wait, tweet recognizes this and sends out message to plumber...
"big log dump alert, backed up... Address X, Y, Z" .... I want to see that patent!
Prior Art (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Wow. (Score:3, Funny)
I can neither confirm nor deny that you are the only one in the US that doesn't want everyone to know their every move of everyday life.
Re:My door can tweet when I forget to lock it! (Score:3, Funny)
<BLAM!>
"AAAHH! The tweet was a lie!"
Ok, but you have to tweet about that (Score:3, Funny)
Seriously, this whole auto-tweeting thing has a lot of useful applications; a real-time life logger. Now we need to make triggers based on the tweets that start other activities. Tweet my dog when I get into my car at the end of the work day. Actually, that dog knows when I'm coming home, so that's a waste. Some sort of weird, semi-obsessive dog radar.
How about tweeting when my mother-in-law pulls into my street? I can turn out the lights.
Re:Guys, I don't get it (Score:3, Funny)
Of course if you are Sockington the cat [twitter.com] you do in fact have 1.1 million people interested in the things your owner pretends you say.
Re:this should be easy (Score:1, Funny)
Read the patent before jumping to conclusions.
I can't, the jump to conclusions mat has been patented too!
Re:Wow. (Score:3, Funny)
of course, she is pregnant
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Re:Wow. (Score:5, Funny)
Mine's at home learning Perl right now.
Women and Perl are a lot alike. You can't figure out how women work either.
Re:Wow. (Score:3, Funny)
I call it 'getting together with them for drinks....'
Interesting. Is that patented?
Re:Wow. (Score:3, Funny)
What about lost remotes (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Wow. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ok, but you have to tweet about that (Score:3, Funny)
How about tweeting when my mother-in-law pulls into my street?
You'll know it's her when the mice start throwing themselves on the traps... (Les Dawson)
Re:Wow. (Score:3, Funny)
Holy cow I just bought a pack of Trojans. What will mom think?
"Hoorah, I thought he'd live alone in my basement forever"?