The Digital Beyond » life http://www.thedigitalbeyond.com Insight into your digital afterlife Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:27:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Twitter device confirms you are alive http://www.thedigitalbeyond.com/2009/06/twitter-device-confirms-you-are-alive/ http://www.thedigitalbeyond.com/2009/06/twitter-device-confirms-you-are-alive/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:18:23 +0000 Evan Carroll http://www.thedigitalbeyond.com/?p=432 Seen today on CrunchGear and Gizmodo, this Japanese-developed device sends Tweets about your heartbeat. Despite scaring your relatives when Twitter is down, this device could lead the way for a “is ___ dead” service with a yes/no/unsure API. While this adds some biological fact to confirming one’s death, there’s several kinks like hospitalization or disconnected monitors that would introduce unreliability.

From the translated promotional video:

“Now I can die and post this info to Twitter. That’s what I call a revolution!”

Twitter Device

Twitter Heartbeat Device

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