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The Twoddler.

The prototype device, developed by a team at Hasselt University in Belgium, essentially hooks up a Fisher Price toy to a twitter account.
When the baby performs different actions, the account is updated.

Here’s how the team describes it:

“The software captures sensor data from the activity center and tries to select a predefined text that is related to that sensor data. We are extending the system so it becomes easier to relate certain patterns of sensor readings with a set of strings.
For example: when Yorin plays with mommy’s picture for over 3 minutes, a twitter message will be posted saying “@mommy_yorin Yorin misses mommy and looks forward playing with her this evening”, or when Yorin is hitting the doorbell button four times in a row, a twitter message will be posted saying “Yorin is showing off his music skills with a new tune”. We hope to even support dynamic composition of new strings in the future.”


And just in case you missed part 1 in todays commentary
http://oprano.com/blog/?p=94