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A Twitter Account for Your Robot
Aug 19th
Robonaut 2 was designed by NASA to help the astronauts with missions and mundane activities around the International Space Station. With 12,000 followers, you too can keep track of R2’s every tweet. According to its Twitter account, R2 is not related to the nefarious HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s also not related to Boba Fett from Star Wars, despite similar appearances. When asked of a possible connection on Twitter, its handlers replied “Sorry, no relation to Boba Fett. Besides, I’m a friendly robot.” R2 also claims no gender, speaks only computer code and English, and plays chess.
When In A Ford, Listen To Tweets Handsfree
Jul 30th
The system does not allow you to tweet back to make sure you don’t think too hard while driving. This is to make sure you are not distracted from your primary job at the wheel – DRIVE. But experts say that this may only lead to the driver reaching out to the phone to tweet back. Now come on, if the system can take voice commands it can also tweet, right?
“Making SYNC even more intuitive and easier to use will encourage more drivers to take advantage of its hands-free capabilities, helping them keep their focus on driving,” said Mark Fields, the Executive Vice President of Ford Motor Company.
The future’s going to be quite interesting given that there’s going to be some augmented reality, some tweeting and some self controlling cars. But for now let’s stick to what we have.
Honk! A Social Network For Buying Cars
Apr 15th
Yeah, this was the only thing remaining to use the “social” angle of things. A new startup honk.com lets you choose cars making sure your new car fits around your life. For example, if you choose male, single suggestions vary from convertibles, to coupes to all sorts of flashy cars. And if you choose to
Feature Consolidation Or Greed?
Apr 15th
The age of feature consolidation has arrived for big product companies. Apple launched the iPhone OS4 SDK a couple of days ago, Twitter acquired Tweetie and today Twitter announced at the Chirp conference that they will launch their own url shortening service in place of bit.ly One pattern that has emerged out of these is that product companies are now ready to throw the kitchen sink at the user. Another pattern is that product companies are now making their platforms “unique” and hence forcing it upon everyone. Is this the time for feature consolidation?
Tweet Your Emails. Really!
Apr 15th
We have written about some great startups here on Ideabing. But here is one very interesting startup that lets you “tweet-to-email”. the concept’s simple, and very powerful. Say you want to send en email to a bunch of friends but you really do not remember all their email addresses.
Idea 292: Allow Tweeters To Schedule Their Tweets
Apr 1st
There are many Twitter apps available on the internet, but one in particular has caught our eye. Its called “Twaitter“. Notice the Twitter + Wait = Twaitter formula? Yeah, this service lets you schedule your tweets – FREE. Twaitter is web based and lets you tweet your tweets out when ever you want. You are
