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Popcorn Tweets Lets You Eat While You Tweet

by Amar Toor on February 8, 2010 at 08:24 AM

If you consider pushing a button on a microwave one too many steps between you and a bowl of popcorn, a new invention may allow you to cook up a steaming pile of Orville Redenbacher from the comfort of your own Twitter account.

Created by Dave Britt and Justin Goeres, Popcorn Tweets is a new device that creates fluffy balloons of popcorn deliciousness at the click of a mouse. Whenever anyone posts a '#popcorn' tweet to their Twitter page, the Archimedes screw-powered robot sends an ugly duckling corn kernel into the literally named "Chamber of Blistering Heat", where it's turned into the beautiful swan that is popcorn. You can see a demo video after the break -- although you should probably be warned that the kitschiness quotient is pretty, prett-ay high. And even though we still don't really condone eating while tweeting, if these guys can somehow figure out a way to incorporate '#butter' and '#salt' triggers into their contraption, we might be willing to reconsider. [From: Engadget]

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