Twitter-Enabled Cat Door Tweets a Kitty's Comings and Goings
In what can only be called the next logical phase of the Twitter revolution, a man (who just happens to be a computer programmer) has rigged a cat door to tweet (post an update, in Twitter-speak) every time his cats enter or exit the house. The Tweeting Cat Door, as it's inventively called, was originally created by a guy who seems to be named Ioan and who, along with his partner, was tired of neighborhood cats sneaking into the garage and eating his cats' food. The problem lay in the fact that the food could be reached by any ol' cat via a traditional cat door. But no more!
Each of the couple's cats has since been equipped with an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tag on their collar. When either of the cats nears the door, an RFID reader authorizes the cat, while a mechanism unlocks the door, allowing the authorized cat to enter. Both the RFID reader and the servo mechanism are connected to a laptop, which automatically tweets each time the door is activated. You can read theses riveting accounts at http://twitter.com/GusAndPenny.
Check it out. The tweets would be funnier if they weren't so similar to the way some people actually tweet. [From: ioanghip.googlepages.com Via: Neatorama]
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