Post your life signs on Twitter

A Japanese group called the Koress Project have announced development of a tiny little box that posts your heartrate to Twitter, so your friends and loved ones can see how you’re doing. The Akiduki Pulse Box, as it’s called, requires a heart monitor to work, but takes care of posting details about your health for you.

The Akiduki Pulse Box is 100% open source, and Koress is already making plans to commercialize the device and even hold seminars to teach others how to manufacture the device themselves. The device’s running joke is that if your heart should stop beating, all of your Twitter followers will know you’re dead.

Here’s the big question: As silly as the Akiduki Pulse Box might seem at first… Is this the next logical step for Twitter? Devices and services that automatically post information about you, so you don’t have to do it manually? Can you imagine what other hardware or software devices might be produced with “Twitter automation” in mind? Maybe a program that monitors kids’ homework progress so parents can get updates on how it’s coming? Repair service professionals who have devices hooked up to their machinery that Twitters to let you know what’s being done to your car or computer or whatever, as it happens?

Images: Mycom Journal.