IBM has filed a patent application for a TV remote control that will blog for you. Yes, what we're talking about here is a remote control that will enable a viewer to basically blog about a particular show he's watching.Now, I admit, TV remotes have made humans lazy, and you and I will probably spent a long time looking for a lost remote rather than simply getting up and turning off the TV manually, but still, this is a little over-the-top.
Here's how the remote control is described:
A method, system and apparatus provide for automatic blogging of media viewing using an enhanced remote controller having networking capabilities that support social networking and blogging. The enhanced remote controller, suitable for use while viewing media programming and content, allows a viewer to autoblog about currently experienced media programming in real-time without having to resort to direct interaction with a computer to perform the autoblogging. The enhanced remote controller allows the viewer to both communicate with a blogging server, and thus to a blogging service, as well as to display responses to and from other bloggers with whom the viewer is communicating. These blog communications may be accomplished without the viewer having to leave the broadcast receiver of the television.It's unclear to me just how you can really flesh out a blog post simply from a remote control. The patent application does supply this clue:
If a protocol provided by the remote controller to send the blog posting to the blog allows a snapshot of the media program to be included in the blog posting, the remote controller takes the snapshot of the media program and includes it in the blog posting.A snapshot of the media program? Hey, I can see copyright infringement charges all over this. At any rate, a patent application does not necessarily mean a product will ever result, or even that the application will be granted.
Readers, would you find this useful? Personally, I think it's silly.
2 comments:
Nothing profound here. It's a concept I thought of several times, whenever that (rare) event when a topic on the boob tube captures my interest and is worthy of researching.
I have relied on a digital voice recorder tickle file for topics to google. Why not incorporate a TV remote with a built in digital recorder.
There is actually a much more practical remote control for the professional couch spud I've been conceptualizing for years.
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