http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:53:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/a-really-loud-smoke-alarm-based-news-alert-system.html Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:47:16 +0000 Are your Google Alerts a little too subtle? Is Tweet Deck and your RSS feed not keeping you in the loop in a timely fashion? Then you may want to upgrade to a news alert system you’re not going to miss, like an 85 dB smoke alarm. Jer Thorp has hacked together a smoke alarm hooked up to the news feed from the New York Times NewsWire API. If a pre-determined word or phrase comes through the service, the alarm will let out a screaming alarm, letting you know hot information is coming down the line. The “NewsAlarm” is alsoRead more...]]>