Apr 25

Twitter gizmos

Category: Device Ideas

I’d love to see some Twitter hardware. I know some must be out there, why can’t I find it? I’ve talked before about the idea of a Twitter Sampler. Other options would be twitter on simple displays, and twitter news feeds on your TV. What about the Twitter API?

Twitter is, let’s face it, annoying. So what about making it even more so: a Twitter text to speech machine? One of my talking dolls could spit out my tweets all day and night. Wow, what a headache. But funny!

What about the opposite of the Sampler, where a very large screen aggregates an overwhelming amount of tweets? Like a poster. Could be interesting?

2 Comments so far

  1. David June 19th, 2008 11:44 am

    Hey Bruce it’s Dave… I saw this and remembered your post. It’s not well documented yet but that blogger is pretty good with putting everything online, so if you check back you might find some schematics/source code.

  2. brucecannon June 19th, 2008 11:54 am

    Fantastic, thanks for helping me out, Dave! I’m not a fan of the Arduino per se, but Tom is one of the key innovators in the ambient/physical computing world.

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