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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you (without a doubt) the dumbest idea I have ever seen all day.

IBM, which employs about 10,500 in the Raleigh-Durham area, 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.
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Now I must patent the network enabled smart fridge that tweets every time i reach for a beer.
 
Wow, that could wind up being very embarrassing.. I love it! It just means more comical side articles in the future! :D
 
that's not dumb, that's ingenious...

imagine going over to your friends house and renaming all his/her shows so that they'd show up as some sort of horrid porn name (if the software used some sort of meta-tagging to display the names while keeping the file name intact...)

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh man the possibilities!
 
Why do people care about such things?I just know in 15-20 years, elections are going to have bomb shells dropped left and right. Oh, Candidate A seems to have like tweeting about his homosexual encounters on a park bench in memphis. Or Candidate B tweeted about her trip to the back alley abortion dr because she didn't want her parents to know she was having a black mans baby.
 
Dr.LaRd said:
that's not dumb, that's ingenious...

imagine going over to your friends house and renaming all his/her shows so that they'd show up as some sort of horrid porn name (if the software used some sort of meta-tagging to display the names while keeping the file name intact...)

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh man the possibilities!
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Now while that would be awesome to do to someone it would only be funny the first time it's done. So in the end IBM's idea is still really dumb.
 
And Verizon should patent an auto tweet when one of their commercials air on TV: "I am sitting on the couch"

And... I will patent every action every person makes in this earth to auto tweet, woofer, myspace and facebook.

This data will be fed to AI or Skynet.
 
Doesn't that take all the fun out of tweeting for the dullards that feel the need to document every waking moment?
 
what happens when they're channel surfing (like 90% of the guys do)? Do you get a tweet for each channel?
 
Dumbest idea? You are going to feel like an idiot steve when all the sheep start shelling out $100 for a card for their son, daughter, and grandma.
 
Steve man... you gotta learn to be a little bit more cheery when watching that stuff. Great pic tho :cool:
 
This just in from Steve's Facebook feed:

"STEVE is watching CHANNEL 69, current show: SCRAMBLED PORN."
 
Thats what they SAY its for. actually it will be in every remote and report what you watch to the government, so they can make sure you have watched enough "news" and commercials.

/tinfoil.
 
DeFex said:
Thats what they SAY its for. actually it will be in every remote and report what you watch to the government, so they can make sure you have watched the correct "news" and commercials.

/tinfoil.
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Fixt. :D
 
I probably flip through 30 channels during commercials. Doubt anyone would want to subscribe to 200+ program title tweets/hour.

I could see dedicated Twitter feeds applied to Neilsen families, though.
 
I have pretty much completely stopped using Facebook (and will never, ever, use twitter) because I realized that I really don't give two shits about other people's daily lives.
 
Lebowski said:
Why do people care about such things?I just know in 15-20 years, elections are going to have bomb shells dropped left and right. Oh, Candidate A seems to have like tweeting about his homosexual encounters on a park bench in memphis. Or Candidate B tweeted about her trip to the back alley abortion dr because she didn't want her parents to know she was having a black mans baby.
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Wow bro, I got pissed off just from reading that.
 
I'm going to start wearing my Track IR everywhere I go, with code to update twitter with my exact heading at all times.
 
Now they just need to invent something that makes me actually give a crap about inventions like this...

Seriously, who cares what their buddies are watching on TV...

I don't even watch TV anymore...it rots your brain until you think telling everyone what you rot your brain with is a GOOD idea...
 
Huh. I can still proudly say that I don't even know what the Twitter website looks like. Soon there will be nav systems for your car that tweet where you parked just for fun. "I'm at the mall!" Then the thieves can find your car so simple. Sweet tweet.

I know the question has been asked, but what is the POINT of this garbage site?
 
What is this "TV" you speak of? Or are you referring to that 27" wii monitor over there?
 
Verizon FIOS TV has a Facebook widget that already allows this albeit you have to manual select to update your status.
 
As much as how crappy being able to update your status automagically from your TV. I bet the Nielsen types and marketing researching groups are already gushing about the abilities for unintrusive realtime stat tracking this will provide.
 
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