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Twitter-Powered Device Connects Popcorn Maker To The Internet Of Things

Twitter-Powered Device Connects Popcorn Maker To The Internet Of Things

By Kyle Studstill on February 9, 2010

Implementing an example of human-powered physical computing, Popcorn Tweets is a device that Dave Britt and Justin Goeres have connected to Twitter for the purpose of cooking popcorn. Popcorn Tweets encourages and draws from posts mentioning #popcorn, with each one triggering the placement of a kernel onto a heated surface.

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Kyle Studstill is a regular contributor to PSFK.com. Kyle works as a consultant working at the New York office of PSFK. His background is in analysis, from the analysis of cultural and technological change, to analysis of consumer and human insight, to military intelligence analysis with the US Intelligence and Security Command. Kyle loves the future, much like O'Brien from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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