Device judges your pulse and Tweets its findings to your parents and Ashton Kutcher
What's creepier than automatically informing Twitter every time your unborn child kicks his mother's womb? Giving all your Twitter followers a live feed of your heartbeat, including canned messages to announce your death in case you cease pumping Cheeto-infused blood through your goth-nerdy veins. This Japanese DIY project has open source schematics and is designed to bypass a PC and send the news of your heart hiccups directly the internet. Check out the appropriately dramatic video after the break.



















Dear Lord,
Please end this twitter fad, these immature kids are having their social networking sites show up on my tech blog.
Thanks,
oh and a raise would be cool!
Amen
Agreed, Twitter is the stupidest shit ever. Who the hell waste their time typing what the hell they're doing?? These people needs to find something better to waste their time on.
"Dear Twitter, found a lamer on engadet saying twitter is a waste of time, what a loooser. Now I'm going to argue with him to make him see things my way. I'll show him!"
oh btw [sic]
Twittering my life:
10:34 am:
Taking a shit, hope everyone is following me
10:34 am:
Got a new follower! OMGZ im so popular
10:35
this is so fun, i love twitter... im twittering. anybody wanna know what else im doing??
10:40
Wow this actually sucks... Myspace does this and more...
*Cancels account*
I think it would be ironic if you "tweeted" your displeasure with Twitter.
I hate it too. It's everywhere you turn these days, they're even bringing it to the 360's dashboard at some point soonish. Seriously, the fad has gone way too far and has to plateau and eventually fizzle out at some point. Sooner the better pl0x.
Thats disgusting... wayy to much information...no-one wants to know you use my-space...
if we 'trended' a 'hashtag' of twitterisshit would we be cool, or as bad as the 'tweeters'
You sir are an idiot, Twitter is NOT the same thing as a Facebook status update. There are ton of practical business uses when it comes to tweeting. Like free target traffic generation, duh.
I know some cardiologists who would love to tweak this and get it to work for their patients... This could actually have some very real and useful applications!
Ha, i'm actually eating Cheetos right n *dies*
Ha, i'm actually eating Cheetos right nHHNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGG
fix'd.
Lol... they make it sound so epic.
Cool oscillo though :p
Yes it does like an RPG or something. I also always love some Kutcher jokes.
But one thing I wasn't sure about in the video [@1:07]. How is two people holding each other supposed to raise your pulse? That just doesn't make any sense to me.
read: love
I haven't been so excited about my pulse since the Nintendo E3 announcement.
I would buy this in a Heartbeat!
I see what you did there.
*Wookie growl*
*wah-wah*
Its open source!!!
just get the schematics and do it urself!!!
Yes... Someone had to crack that one...
*groan*
/facepalm
/faceplant
/eggplant in ass
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!
footplant
wallplant
as....oh, i give up
Though I think their is better ways of distributing the data than through twitter (something that graphs it and shows a longer time span quickly), I could see how their would be at least some interest in a device/service like this for people who have a relative that had a heart attack or some other problem putting them in an Intensive Care Unit. Either for if they are either unable to get to the hospital at that time or just want a quick reassurance that the person is doing alright.
epic fail rotflmao! no one cares if your living...o wait....maybe apple fanbois should but steve jobs one of these...might just come in handy
twitter is so yesterday like your grandmothers underwear...just a fad..nothing else
make a twitter device like this that will let everyone know everytime i cum shot would be nice
For jerks
for losers with no lives
I'd like to see Twitter flat-line.
+1
You mean this isn't the new Wii accessory? ;)
It won't be long until there's something like this for masturbating.
The video is a total win.
"Win" isn't a noun. Neither is "fail". Cut it out, internet.
Hate to break this to you Zorque, but 'win' has been a noun much longer than the internet has been here.
Actually they're both nouns
ESPN uses "win" as a noun all the time. "Fail" as a noun, notsomuch.
Not more Twitter articles, please Engadget, PLEASE post less of these. If you keep posting them on a regular enough basis I will have to stop coming here.
[grammar nazi]
"post FEWER of these" rather than "post LESS of these"
[/grammar nazi]
Might be handy to connect it to (US/)korean border guards, if they all flatline we know it's trouble afoot.
I'm just not that big of a fan of Twatting, really.
From the video I got "089" and "LAN". Oh and a couple of houses/tridents.
Someone PLEASE get one of these for Perez Hilton cuz he will need it very shortly...
So... how long until we can build our own death clocks?
I have to say twitter articles are great for blogs, they spawn so much hate traffic.
"screw you guys...I'm going tweeting"