IBM 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. Users can choose from a list of installed text messages or they can type in something themselves. They can also embed a snapshot from the show. The remote would also show messages between Facebook friends, bloggers and Twitterers.
IBM is probably targeting heavy social-networking teens with this device, but I believe self-trackers and productivity nuts will find more use for it.
I like the idea but I am not sure it is quite as good as the device that "single-handedly justifies Twitter's existence," a chair that tweets farts.
