Web curation for February 7th 2010

Filtering the web so you don’t have to for February 7th 2010

  • Popcorn Tweets: Twitter-Powered Popcorn Maker [VIDEO] –
    Two men have built a popcorn-making robot that serves up a new batch whenever someone mentions #popcorn on Twitter.
    Popcorn Tweets was created by Dave Britt and Justin Goeres as their entry into a contest held by popcorn manufacturer Fireworks Popcorn. The pair writes of the invention:
    “A custom LabVIEW program polls Twitter for any mention of #popcorn, and for each Tweet, activates a LEGO Mindstorms NXT robot to power some Rube Goldberg sort of contraption that makes popcorn one Tweet at a..   show all text
    DowntownRob: Popcorn Tweets: Twitter-Powered Popcorn Maker [VIDEO] – http://bit.ly/9O3XQy /via @mashable 
  • From Twitter – .@binghas the ads all rounded up http://bit.ly/9dHwrf #sb44

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