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 Heartbeat Device
Oh no, Grandpa is dead! Oh wait… it’s the fail whale.