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New Device Tweets Heart Rate, Death Announcements

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The Japanese have peculiar tastes, be it in video games or gadgets. The whimsical idiosyncrasies of a group of Japanese technology enthusiasts with very peculiar tastes have manifest themselves in the form of the Akiduki Pulse box, a device that automatically tweets your heart rate to your buddies. The user needs to press a particular button for a few seconds to send his heart rate to his friends on Twitter. The device, which has been developed by a group named Koress Project, is open source. The group intends to commercialize the device at some point in the future. The Akiduki Pulse box may one day emerge as the world’s first fully automated web-based death announcement device.

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avatarmorbid

How can you tweet your death if you must push a button first to show your lack of heartbeat?

 

 

OMGWTFBBQ

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avatarMindless Zombies

I cant see this working as all twitter users are mindless zombies.

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avatarTweet, Tweet Release O' Death

My Death..will not be televised.

 Howver, it will be Tweeted.

Eventually, we shall tweet from beyond the grave, sweet.

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avatarso *ucking sick of

so *ucking sick of twitter.

cnn

sportscenter

Well minus well pay the "tweeters" instead of reporters.

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avatari dont think it should be

i dont think it should be used as death announcement, but perhaps as an indicator to medical personel that there's an emergency and maybe there's no way for anyone else to call 911.

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avatar.....why?

i dont know exactly how twitter because i vowed to never go on it, but here it goes....

guy: O CRAP! I AM HAVING A HEART ATTACK.

guys heart rate tweeter: heart rate= under attack.

ambulance:OMG! HERE I COME!

guy#2: ha ha, you is dieing. i guess i wont see you at the party with all the  LIVING people!

guy: i hate yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogr aihwofgsjabhjbjdsab jkbsjajsdaf *death*

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avatarAnother wonderful

Another wonderful accomplishment of Twitter - letting people know that you are, in fact, still alive. Unfortunately.

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avatarIt's only the beginning

If you have not seen it on TV yesterday, go to: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/60_minutes/video/video.php

Watch the middle part of the 06.28.09 issue about the newest neuroscience innovation (kind of "Your mind belongs to us")

It does not call for much imagination to see where it is all going. If you think you are connected today, it is nothing compared to what is in the pipe. In the early eighties my friends were looking strangely at me when I was telling them that in the not so far future they will all use computers.

SF authors like William Gibson, Alastair Reynolds, Charles Ross are going to look passé sooner than we think.

Yes there will be wonderful applications like 24x7x365 automatic nursing. Yes there will be much more nefarious applications (...and the general asked: "how about the physical and psychological status of the troops, do we need to boost the endorphins?"). But here is my personl prediction: the baby-boomers invented the personal computer and the internet, I do not think anybody foresaw what their (grand)-sons and daugthers would do with it (Naspter, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter,...). The next generation will probably do some even crazier things with the technology being invented now. Telepathic twittering anybody?

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avatarLOL @ "the world's first

LOL @ "the world's first fully automated web-based death announcement device".  :D

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avatarLOL! That was funny!!!

LOL! That was funny!!!

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avatarI thought I had seen it

I thought I had seen it all.....I was wrong.

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