IBM Files Patent For Tweeting TV Remote
Good lord, this is all we need. A TV remote that allows users to easily ramble on about the shows they watch via their blog or twitter account. For better or worse, IBM appears to be working on this technology.
A viewer selects a media program to view by use of a remote controller with networking capability.
Upon the viewer wishing to send a blog posting to a blog, the viewer determines whether a tag to be included in the blog posting is to be a pre-existing tag or a custom tag, wherein the blog posting comprises program information about the media program useful to identify the media program. If the tag is to be a pre-existing tag, the viewer selects the pre-existing tag from a plurality of pre-existing tags using the remote controller and if the tag is to be a custom tag, the viewer generates the custom tag using the remote controller.
If a protocol provided by the remote controller to send the blog posting to the blog allows a snapshot of the media program to be included in the blog posting, the remote controller takes the snapshot of the media program and includes it in the blog posting.
So, the device would let you blog or tweet and communicate with your followers about what you are watching via a networked remote control. Again, it’s only a patent at this point, but is this remote something you could see yourself using? [Patent via TechCrunch]
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@met2art: Heart lol
ReynaldoRiv
Apparently IBM thinks 'blog consumers' all use iMacs from 1999
ReynaldoRiv
@OMG! Ponies!: That was you?? Shut the hell up you lunatic!
Of course that's better than going to the window, sticking your head out and yelling, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
@VideoVampire: "funny ass fuckers" Hmmm... it is very important that you tell us where the dash goes in there...
I hope IBM, what seems to be a company with some sense, only patented this to stop others from producing this disgrace.
@OMG! Ponies!: These are the reasons I read the comments, you guys are some funny ass fuckers, seriously.
VideoVampire
Oh Yeah! Instead of just screaming at my tv during the news I can blog my abusive/racist/homicidal/psychopathic/too loud opinions to the rest of the world!!! WooHOO!!!!! My girlfriend will be happy she doesnt have to listen to me anymore, she can just NOT read my blog/tweets!!
VideoVampire
@OMG! Ponies!: Match.com rejected me, apparently owning a WAHHA GO GO is a bad thing.
@anexanhume: Yeah right.
I'm guessing your Match.com profile contains a few entries where you took liberties with the truth as well.
@OMG! Ponies!: I own a mac and will not be installing snow leopard. Mind the hole in the universe, won't you?
@Geisrud: " I Wanna Un-heart You For That": A song that the Ramones would sing if social network sites were around in the Seventies.
@Software_Goddess: Battlestar Galactica on Blu-Ray while installing Snow Leopard. Like every other geek on this site.
By the title I thought the remote would tweet when it was lost in the couch or something.
@tok3ninja you dumb bastard i'm in the dogs colon.
@met2art: I wanna un-heart you for that.
Personally, I prefer getting my own prerecorded community TV show where I sit and tweet about the demise of real social interaction.
@met2art: Oh! SG-1! That's a TV show! I see what I did there... I wanna heart myself for that.
@anexanhume: Oooh, you did too! Now you and SG are 1.
@Software_Goddess: And the others are..... oooh, you made a ½ symbol.
@OMG! Ponies!: BTW, what are you watching on the tube tonight?
Software_Goddess
@Software_Goddess: And the other half of the Giz readers are controlling their TV from their iPhone/Android/Pres that can tweet anyways, connected to their HTPCs that are hooked up to 100" plasma screens.
A small percentage is controlling their television with a homemade lego robot that walks up to their 17" CRT and pushes a button, and then says "I love you," while rolling to the computer to tweet how great they are.
@OMG! Ponies!: OMG me 2! RT @OMG_ponies Hey everybody! I'm watching a Friends rerun!
Well who needs to buy the product now? ½ the Giz readers can write the code just from reading the schematic. So much for a patent.
Software_Goddess
Most definitely.
I'm sure it will be about as appreciated as going to my window and shouting "Hey everybody! I'm watching a Friends rerun!" to passers-by.